Apollo 11 Moon Landing Revisited: Hoax ~vs~ Debunk

[Steve]

We once had a cat who didn't understand that. He evidently didn't realise that mirrors worked both ways.

Surely you are not suggesting that Vixen's intelligence equals that of a cat? No, of course not, You would never say, or think, that.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

As my 8-year old niece figured out, “If you can see my eyes, I can see your eyes.”

What about if you cover your eyes? It's important to check if your niece is the Ravenous Bug Blatter Breast of Traal.

 

[junkshop]

Yes, of course, 'line of sight' is the official version of the 'live' tv broadcast, 250K miles away, with no problem with the images.

Just because you can look up and see the Moon in the sky, doesn't mean, it too, is not orbiting Earth at the same time Earth itself is spinning (albeit relatively slowly in the same direction).

My current position (that you are not actually a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ idiot, but play one on on TV the internet for reasons speculated upon, but unknown) is becoming harder to maintain.

 

[Mojo]

You've proved your ability to type a subject into a search engine, but...

...not the ability to evaluate what it finds.

 

[JesseCuster]

I’ve never seen someone pretend to be so obtuse and slow to understand as part of an attempt to appear so much smarter than everyone else. It’s a very odd and confusing act.

 

[Foster Zygote]

Yes, of course, 'line of sight' is the official version of the 'live' tv broadcast, 250K miles away, with no problem with the images.

That's right. It was no problem, because the main parabolic antennae of the Deep Space Tracking Network used by the Apollo Program were each 70 meters in diameter.

Goldstone


Canberra


Madrid


Now if this cute little guy here can receive HDTV signals from a geostationary satellite, what makes you think the above antennae (again, which can detect quasars that amount to about one trillionth of a Watt) can't receive a signal broadcast from just ten times farther away?


You literally have nothing to offer at this point other than personal incredulity about things you don't understand anyway.

 

[Foster Zygote]

Just because you can look up and see the Moon in the sky, doesn't mean, it too, is not orbiting Earth at the same time Earth itself is spinning (albeit relatively slowly in the same direction).

My God! How would the slewing mechanism of a radio telescope ever hope to cope with the ~-0.5°/hour caused by the moon's orbit? I mean obviously if a triple niner can't work out how to make such a mechanism, no one can.

 

[Vixen]

The question was - "why was Telstar needed in 1962?"

It's a very simple question.

Which you completely failed to answer.

Was reading for comprehension part of your O level English syllabus?

To capture the Boston game live?

 

[JesseCuster]

Satellites in a geostationary orbit around Earth are going to be at most 11% closer to the moon than the Earth is. Why is 250,000 miles somehow a problematic distance but 225,000 miles from the moon to a geostationary satellite manageable?

Even worse, a geostationary satellite being used to receive and relay a signal to the side of the earth facing away from the moon is going to be as far away from the moon as the earth is, if not further away. I wonder if Vixen is capable of visualising and understanding why, or is willing to.

 

[JesseCuster]

To capture the Boston game live?

Why would Telstar be need to capture the Boston game live? Games can be (and are, and were before the existence of satellites) captured live without any satellites, why do you say a satellite was needed to capture the Boston game live? Satellites don’t capture games, TV cameras and TV equipment capture games.

 

[Foster Zygote]

If you can see the thing you can receive radio signals directly from it without the need for any intermediary. Seriously, it's not that hard to understand. Light and radio waves are both electromagnetic radiation. They travel in straight lines.

Oh please! If it was radiation we'd all be dead!

I wonder how Vixen thinks we got this image. Western Union, maybe?

ETA: The first draft of this post contained a number of expletives, but I removed them before posting it in case Vixen thought they were there because I was angry. They weren't; they were there for ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ emphasis.

 

[JesseCuster]

To capture the Boston game live?

In what sense did Telstar “capture” the Boston game live?

 

[Foster Zygote]

To capture the Boston game live?

And then do what with it, Vixen? This is a rhetorical question. I want you to explain what then happened to the signals broadcast to the satellite.

 

[Vixen]

My 8-year-old niece is laughing at how abjectly dumb this is.

She's probably terrified of getting one of your lectures if she doesn't laugh along with you.

 

[Mojo]

She's probably terrified of getting one of your lectures if she doesn't laugh along with you.

Do you find them terrifying?

 

[Vixen]

Do you find them terrifying?

Nah

 

[Mojo]

Nah

Why would anyone else?

 

[wollery]

To capture the Boston game live?

Why was a satellite needed for that?

Didn't they have TV cameras at the game?

What Part did the satellite play in the transmission?

 

[Mojo]

Nah

Anyway, have you managed to figure out what you meant by "non-geopositioned satellite"?

 

[Vixen]

And then do what with it, Vixen? This is a rhetorical question. I want you to explain what then happened to the signals broadcast to the satellite.

Telstar 1 amplified the incoming high frequency microwave signals and then retransmitted them to a receiving ground station on another continent, in this case, France (via USA).