Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.physics.relativity > #360917

Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

In sci.physics Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> wrote:
> Lofty Goat wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:33:06 +0000, Eteocles Panagakos wrote:
>>> Are you crazy? That was before manned Moon landing. You can't both use
>>> it as a proof and dismiss it same time.
>> 
>> The first experiments simply bounced laser pulses off the surface of the
>> moon.  No retroreflectors involved in those.  Ruby lasers, even the old
>> ones, pack some punch, and a good filter will pull the faint return
>> pulse out of an awful lot of optical noise.
> 
> You know this by yourself or you read it from some others. What the heck 
> is a "retroreflector" anyway? Can a reflector reflects not retro? I 
> thought it must be about some perfect mirrors. (close to perfect), in 
> order to reflect back the most of that speckle. In any case, the 
> integration of the strength over that area MUST be LESS than the strength 
> of the emitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroreflector#On_the_Moon

Yet another babbling, half witted, kook.

 

-- 
Jim Pennino

Back to sci.physics.relativity | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-14 16:05 +0000
  Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 11:20 -0500
    Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-14 16:33 +0000
      Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 18:45 -0500
        Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 16:43 +0000
          Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 12:08 -0500
          Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-08-15 17:18 +0000
            Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 19:49 +0000
              Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-08-15 20:15 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 20:55 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-08-15 21:58 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 22:18 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 22:20 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-08-15 22:40 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 23:12 +0000
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-08-15 23:21 +0000
              Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-08-15 16:18 -0400
                Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 20:57 +0000
      Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Ignorant Raving Crackpot <ignorantravingcrackpot@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 04:54 -0700
    Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-14 16:36 +0000
      Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 18:47 -0500
        Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-15 16:43 +0000
  Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-14 16:40 +0000
  Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Eteocles Panagakos <eteoclespd@prospernetwork.org> - 2015-08-14 17:31 +0000
  Re: Hoax Retroreflectors: Hoax Busters Busts the Mythbusters Koobee Wublee <koobee.wublee@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 23:59 -0700

csiph-web