[Bommer]

If NASA really wants to settle this once and for all, all they need to do is aim the Hubble telescope to the Sea of Tranquility and focus in on the decarded lower lunar module and the flag. Great that they would rather piss more tax payer money away on something that could be either proved or debuncked with a simple turn of a space telescope.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Ha. None of the local fruitcakes would be convinced by a NASA picture.

[ASA Vet]

Could you answer this again please.

[Burkeman1]

Nothing would convince them- these are clinacally sick people. It ain't about empircal evidence at all. Belief that the lunar landings were staged is a fanatical cult like belief impervious to facts and reality.

[MrNeutron1962]

"If NASA really wants to settle this once and for all, all they need to do is aim the Hubble telescope to the Sea of Tranquility "

I don't think the Hubble can resolve objects that small at that distance. However, I understand that the new four mirror scope in the Chilean Andes can. But, observing time and access being what it is, and having no real scientific reason to do it, I'm not holding my breath waiting for these conclusive photos. Most of us believe that we went there anyway, its just the "Face of Mars" crowd that doubts it. I doubt pictures from earth would satisfy them anyway.

[TomB]

If NASA really wants to settle this once and for all, all they need to do is aim the Hubble telescope to the Sea of Tranquility and focus in on the decarded lower lunar module and the flag. Great that they would rather piss more tax payer money away on something that could be either proved or debuncked with a simple turn of a space telescope.

Every thread about the moon hoax comes along there MUST be at least one person mention the HST. Sorry, but the resolution wrt to the lunar surface is (I believe) around 50 meters, much too large to image a piece of Apollo debris.

[steve-b]

They'd just say the picture was faked. They're like the DemocRat minions who would still worship the SinkEmperor if you showed them a video tape of him selling nuclear secrets to a ChiCom spy with one hand, shooting Vince Foster in the head with the other hand, and getting "serviced" under the desk with his little bent protruberance.

[Shooter 2.5]

Aiming the Hubble telescope toward the moon still wouldn't silence the conspiracy nuts. It's because of an affliction I call "The Oswald Defense".

As long as the evidence originates from the government, the wackos will never believe it.

[supercat]

If NASA really wants to settle this once and for all, all they need to do is aim the Hubble telescope to the Sea of Tranquility and focus in on the decarded lower lunar module and the flag.

Those are too small and not bright enough to be detected by something like the Hubble.

On the other hand, astronauts did leave behind corner-reflectors at the landing sites, and those can be detected from earth with a relatively modest (under $10K I think) amount of equipment. Essentially, you point a moderately-powerful laser at one of the landing sites while monitoring it with a telescope. If the laser is well-collimated, the efficiency of the reflector will be good enough that the reflected beam will be detectable [I'm not sure if it's visible, or has to be detected electronically, since I've not done the experiment]. Pointing the laser and telescope at part of the moon without the reflector will not work--only the landing sites with reflectors will send enough of the laser energy back to earth for it to be detectable.