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Originally Posted by Wally
OT for a second guys, if you don't mind.
Hewhocaves. a few posts back you say this:
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How many years do you think it will be before we will be able to image our own lunar landers? I expect to see those photos in my lifetime.
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I thought I had read where it'll never be possible to view the landers from Earth. This being due to the distance, size of target and the properties of light. "Diffraction limited" is the term used to describe this for scopes, I believe. . .
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yes, i've heard that said as well. however, we've done such wonderful things with adaptive optics in the last few years I wonder if that sentiment shouldn't be revised.
Never is a really strong word to use. I'm 32. Where were we, telescope- wise 50 years ago? (1955) We still had people debating canals on Mars. We could point the Keck at Mars today and knock out that idea. We could probably point any number of ameateur scopes with a CCD on it and do it as well.
And if I can head off what I perceive as the inevitable counter-argument; I don't think any of us on here have said that we will never be visited by ETs, we're just saying that the evidence presented that we have already been visited is shaky at best
John