07-20-2009, 02:34 PM
Thudz Wrote:If the scenes were prerecorded and then broadcast from the Apollo while in space how would someone on Earth know the feed was live? Honest question.
Two ways.
1. You can measure the degradation based on maximum resolution. That is what brought about the advancements in higher resolution later on. Each piece of the equipment had a measurable amount of not only resolution (measurable information compressed in a radio wave) but the analog signal would be a certain size (frequency). In other words the square analog signal would round off. (This is what used to cause snow in your TV signal in the 70's) If it was a re-broadcast given video of the day that could be measured.
2. Since we know the exact location of the original signals we know for a fact the signal came from the moon. In order to bounce a signal off of the moon you would need to land amplifiers and receivers on the moon. In order to get them to work properly you are talking about a hell of a lot more work then landing men on the moon. Bouncing a signal in 1969 from the moon would also create signal degradation. Any astronomer worth his salt would have noticed eventually.
Didn't mean to upset you Thudz however I am not really sorry for finding people dumb who think the Apollo missions are hoaxes. This should be something that people on this board learned about in their basic studies in high school and college.
This goes back to Hoof's original point. The amount of pure science data we aquired by going to the moon is quite extensive. Every school in America since has been sharing that data.
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