Originally posted by sonship
[quote] would all be floating around singing hosanna's to this insecure god who needs its ego caressed every hour of the day every day of the year every year of the century and so forth. When will people start to realize the ridiculousness of such a situation? [quote]
The God you don't believe in is not the God I believe in.
Now here's a video on moo ...[text shortened]...
This discussion is between [b]5:08 - 13:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_ArDh12XI[/b]
You had to dig deep for that one. I don't suppose for a second the bag was swinging because of pendulum action since it was free to move. But hey, I realize now nothing I could say would ever swing you away from the traitorous stance you are taking, along with thousands of other traitors. You have it in your mind the moon landing was faked and it is now part of your religion in that nothing will convince you otherwise and you hang the whole conspiracy on a swinging basket. Pretty pathetic evidence.
What are you going to say when the Chinese or the Japanese land close to our landers and take pics of human footprints just like we saw originally?
You also have no answer to how the retroreflector got there, aimed at the precise direction to redirect laser light aimed at the moon to go straight back to Earth which allows scientists to measure the exact distance to the moon within an inch. It shows for the first time positive proof Luna is receding from Earth, which had been predicted but not verified. Before that retro reflector was put in place it was anyone's guess just exactly how far away the moon actually was, they could not get it closer than about plus or minus a mile. Now it is plus or minus a half inch.
There was no robot tech at the time capable of putting that retroreflector in place with an angle accurate enough for the reflector mirrors to be aimed at Earth.
I know that full well, having worked on Apollo, I saw the tech of the time. My own tech job, Tracking and timing, the timing was fair tech, Hewlett Packard off the shelf atomic clocks which was fair advanced for the 60's and 70's but the tracking part was strictly analog mixing of digital signals to produce a string of bits that were sent back to Earth on a transponder so they could in effect have a tape ruler in space which gave the distance away from Earth of Apollo within 50 feet.
That equipment did the job but was very low tech compared to how they would do the same job today. Today it would all be in a chip where the bits generated would all come from a built in computer chip doing the work of that 1 ton beast I worked on. It was very complex, that device for the day but it was a huge task to do without computers.
So the moon landing hoaxters have ZERO answer as to how the retroreflector got put in place. They would have to imagine some kind of robot capable of doing the job automatically and that could not have happened. They could not even have done a remote control deal either, the tech wasn't there to even attempt such a thing much less actually control some kind of cart a quarter of a million miles away.
The only explanation therefore is humans put the retroreflector in place and aimed the mirrors correctly to allow a laser beam to hit it from Earth and go back the same exact path.
Take a look at this: an idiot tries to debunk the retroreflector science saying the moon basically moves so fast a laser could not keep up.
https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=4971.0
I guess he doesn't know about the fact that just MAYBE real astronomers know about that movement and can set the laser to track it. So he basically accepts there IS a retroreflector up there, doesn't even TRY to say how a robot could have put it there.
Just another assshole trying to debunk and giant fail.
Plus he fails to understand the laser only needs to be aimed at it for a split second since it is less than a 2 second trip for light to get to the moon and less than 3 for the full round trip of light coming and going.
That is the level of idiots trying to debunk. I would think you would seek better company than those assswipes.
Of course all this is off topic since your whole idea is to defect from the obvious about heaven.
Here is the real deal, a 'mythbusters' show about the retroreflector:
YouTube
This segment is about 4 minutes long.