DIY on the Moon: how Buzz saved the launch back to Earth(timesonline.co.uk)
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DIY on the Moon: how Buzz saved the launch back to Earth
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Because people who believe that Apollo was a hoax would surely be convinced by instrumentation asserting that a laser is bouncing off a mirror those guys left there.
They can buy their own damn lasers and try it themselves.
Have you ever tried to convince someone of something which they were skeptical about, but had little knowledge about? It's hard. They're suspicious of everything they learn about it, because they're obviously aware that all the people who know about it claim the thing they're skeptical about. They're looking for the trick, where it all goes wrong, and if they don't see it, they often just decide that they missed it, rather than that everything is on the level.
There are probably things you have the same attitudes about: astrology, alchemy, global warming, macroeconomics, or whatever. You don't bother to study these things enough to refute them, but you might notice that the people who've invested years in such study all seem convinced (at least, most of the vocal ones, James Randi aside :]). Note that I'm not saying that those things are all equally valid or invalid. Just to be clear.
I know people who will refuse to agree with perfectly reasonable, obvious assertions because they're afraid that a series of such will "trick" them into changing their mind where we disagree.
There are probably things you have the same attitudes about: astrology, alchemy, global warming, macroeconomics, or whatever. You don't bother to study these things enough to refute them, but you might notice that the people who've invested years in such study all seem convinced (at least, most of the vocal ones, James Randi aside :]). Note that I'm not saying that those things are all equally valid or invalid. Just to be clear.
I know people who will refuse to agree with perfectly reasonable, obvious assertions because they're afraid that a series of such will "trick" them into changing their mind where we disagree.
Yeah, I just thought it was time for a little bullish naïveté.
Ah, but that doesn't account for The Great Laser Conspiracy.
It's cover-ups all the way down.
It's cover-ups all the way down.
The denialists specifically deny the manned landings. They would assert that it is perfectly possible for robots to have placed the mirrors.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/21jul_llr.htm