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Originally Posted by Jim
Think about how many millions of dollars communications companies spend each year on designing, building, launching, and maintaining satellites to broadcast signals from earth to the satellites and back. Even with today's technology, doing this consistently, efficiently, and economically is a very neat trick.
Had the technology to use the moon as a reflector existed in 1969, meeting those three criteria as would be necessary for a hoax, wouldn't the communications companies have glommed onto it by now?
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Well, there's a difference between feasibility and commercial viability. Hypothetically, it might have been possible to use a lunar bounce for the hoax but have power and reliability problems that made it uneconomical for routine use.
Besides, the Moon has this nasty habit of moving around all the time, and only being on one side of the planet at any given moment.