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Old 23-August-2007, 12:10 PM
Joe Durnavich Joe Durnavich is offline
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In practice, I am not sure there are any examples of video being successfully transmitted by this method. Much less video which is proported to be genuine.

EME or moonbounce is limited to narrow bandwidth signals like Morse code, voice, and teletype transmitted at frequencies lower than Apollo's S-band radio and television. The motion of the moon and the roughness of the lunar landscape would disrupt reflected short wavelength S-band signals. If you did manage to bounce a video signal off the moon, you probably wouldn't see it for the extended periods we see in the Apollo video sequences.

MG1962A, the general problem with this form hoax argument is that it is not really an argument. Conspiracy theorists will suggest a possibility such as, "the radio and television signals could have been bounced off the moon," and then will expect you to prove that suggestion impossible. Although it is fun to debunk such suggestions, in the end you learn nothing about what really happened.

To discover what really happened, one must investigate the world, of course. The conspiracy theorist doesn't want to leave the confines of his bedroom, however, and instead "investigates" little more than his private speculations and imaginations.
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