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Apollo Special: Mirrors on the Moon

Posted July 13, 2009 9:12 AM

From New Scientist - Online News:

Each clear night when the moon is high in the sky, a group of astronomers in New Mexico take aim at our celestial neighbour and blast it repeatedly with pulses of light from a powerful laser. They target suitcase-sized reflectors left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions, as well as by two Russian landers.

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07/14/2009 9:38 AM

Impossible! How can they be taking measurements from mirrors left on the moon from a Apollo mission that never happened? I guess this throws the whole conspiracy theory out the lunar window. It's a sad day for the whole group of them. GWB must be behind this.

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07/14/2009 10:30 AM

GWB behind it? I seriously doubt it. It would seem that most things GWB had his hand in went sour, cost huge amounts of money, how many military casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc? The US economy going down the tube and pulling the world economy in behind it. We'll see what future history has to say about GWB.

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