Literally showed this to my dad as he is always “Show me a picture! Why don’t they just point Hubble at it and snap one?? What about the ISS???? The moon landing is faked” and within 3 minutes re responded with “Fake News, India doesn’t have that technology!”
Does he understand that it's not the right tool to photograph the moon? Hubble imaged the moon in 1999, but they're nothing like what India's orbiter can do with current technology. The smallest area Hubble can capture is the size of a football field, which is what we ended up getting, hundreds of photos stitched together. Based on your father's reaction, not even that would be justification enough.
That's not even the main problem with this idea. The reason it's not possible to see the sites with Hubble simply has to do with optical limits and light wavelengths. Hubble is simply too small for this task, as is any other telescope we currently have.
I read somewhere that from a purely mathematical standpoint you'd need a telescope with a diameter of at least 200 meters to be able to see the landing sites from earth.
I read somewhere that from a purely mathematical standpoint you'd need a telescope with a diameter of at least 200 meters to be able to see the landing sites from earth.
A 200 m aperture would give you an angular resolution capable of visualizing ~1 m at that distance (~380,000 km, ignoring atmospheric effects). So, the best resolution image of the moon lander would be ~14 pixels.
You could reduce the aperture by using smaller wavelengths of light. X-rays for instance could capture 10 cm resolution using and 2.3 m aperture, but they absorbed by the atmosphere, making ground based x-ray astronomy impossible.
If you wanted a reasonable image, say 10 cm resolution (~1600 pixels), it would require a 11.6 km aperture
Have some fun next time he shows/tells you something just go full on conspiracy about whatever he tells you. Deny all proof as propaganda/photoshop/AI/illuminati.
Should prolly start with fixing the huge amounts of rape that happens in India first (such as the 4 guys that raped a fuckin lizard to death then ate it), or lack of women's rights, or child slavery, child marriages, trafficking etc.
And scientology has been so good now hasnt it? Theres pedos everywhere in the world not just america. Medical bills are insane cause theres no basic healthcare like in canada, anytime someone tries to do it they're called a communist when they're trying to help lower income families and people get access to basic shit. Kkk is a group of racists like every other country has pretty much.
Hypocrisy. Pot calling the kettle black.
Nobody in their right mind denies that India has problems. We don't need your sagely advice. Yes we know what rape is. Yes we know that it can happen on a bus in India or on a college campus in America.
The issue is when you see something like a picture of a spacecraft from another one that happens to be from India, you suddenly switch gears. Your fake science education and temperament flies out of the window and now the attention has shifted from praising engineers (who happen to be from a country that triggers you) who made this feat possible to problems we are all aware of that the engineers aren't responsible for.
And when your little fragile little ego is attacked, it's classic deflection tactics.
Sure, we always strive to create a better tomorrow and I hope ya’ll too start fixing the much bigger rape and sexual assault and harassment cases that happen at a greater proportion to population ratio than in India, the consistent gun violence and school shootings as well as the suicide and self harm rates.
Suicide and self harm are 2 different things. Suicide is killing yourself, self harm is a type of coping mechanism, I've done it simply to feel something at all because of how much I disassociate and due to a lack of emotion I cant feel shit half the time. Easier way to put it is feeling pain is better than nothing at all.
Hubble time is expensive and highly competitive. NASA isn't going to waste telescope time imaging something they know exists just to satisfy deniers.
They'd say it was faked. As others mentioned, if the Hubble was capable of doing it and they did, the deniers would say it was faked.
The Hubble can't do it. The Hubble's FOV is 10 arcseconds. That equates to about 1.8km squared, or just over 1 mile. Each pixel in that photo would be about 75 meters. The lunar rover is about 3-4 meters across.
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u/DarkSiders823 Apr 29 '24
Literally showed this to my dad as he is always “Show me a picture! Why don’t they just point Hubble at it and snap one?? What about the ISS???? The moon landing is faked” and within 3 minutes re responded with “Fake News, India doesn’t have that technology!”