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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 48 points 3 months ago

If you can afford the simple equipment necessary, you can literally send and receive a ping to a device left at one of the landing sites that proves without a doubt we have been there.

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 20 points 3 months ago

I'm not a radio engineer, but my understanding is you're just bouncing signals off the moon itself, there isn't a device that echos the signal back or anything. There are mirrors on the moon to reflect lasers back though.

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

They left a couple retro reflectors on the moon during the moon landings so we can bounce lasers off them to accurately measure the distance to the moon.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

I think that’s what they meant, cuz a ping to a radio device wouldn’t prove much, just that you are getting signals from up there. A laser would prove definitively.

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

Couldn't such device be delivered without people, like a remotely controlled rover? How does that prove that people made an actual landing on the Moon?

[-] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago

Because there’s like 6 of em, and we know exactly which mission launched each one.

[-] StormWalker@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

You are correct, it proves nothing. None of these things prove that people have been on the moon. Unless you want it to. Then anything is proof 😅

[-] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago

Yea shure you guys think that nasa was able to land something on the moon with either remote control or fully automated and then after a sucessfull landing of a unmanned craft deploy a mirror angled so you can bounce back laser but you also say that PEOPLE were never up there? What is even needed as proof for you people?

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