Your car windshield also reflects sunlight but you get better reflection off a mirror. It’s about precision and having the right tool for the job, and not using something that works kinda okay for it.
Bounce it off, sure. Are you going to get the return back at the angle you need for proper measurements without a known flat angle to bounce back against? Doubtful. The moon is kinda big, if you haven’t looked at it. Hitting the mirror precisely is hard enough, adding in hitting the exact same patch of rock time and time again adds needless complexity.
Other sources included earlier proposals to use the Moon as a radio wave reflector, which date back to 1928. The first proof of this concept was the Project Diana program of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1946, which detected radar waves bounced off the Moon.
Four years ago (1962), a ruby laser considerably smaller than those now available shot a series of pulses at the moon, 240,000 miles away. The beams illuminated a spot less than two miles in diameter and were reflected back to earth with enough strength to be measured by ultrasensitive electronic equipment.
Moon rock reflecting light, like virtually every other matter, doesn't mean they act like a mirror works like a mirror. Otherwise, we would use rocks when combing our hair in the morning. Plus, they know exactly where the mirrors are.
Lasers lose focus with distance. You can use a laser at a short distance with a lower power laser, making your cat chase it, as it reflects off the floor. Trying to reflect laser light off the moon would require a very powerful laser, or something more reflective to hit it with, like a mirror, because the moon is very far away.
The sun, being very very bright, is capable of putting out light that reflects off rocks.
I am saying that if you believe in the moon landing, you believing in the moon reflectors also make total sense. Instead of watching those Space wars movies, try going outside, and look at just how bright the moon is.
Moon rock already acts as a mirror for sunlight, or so are we told.
Your car windshield also reflects sunlight but you get better reflection off a mirror. It’s about precision and having the right tool for the job, and not using something that works kinda okay for it.
So you agree that we can bounce a laser off the surface of the Moon, even without a reflector placed there?
Bounce it off, sure. Are you going to get the return back at the angle you need for proper measurements without a known flat angle to bounce back against? Doubtful. The moon is kinda big, if you haven’t looked at it. Hitting the mirror precisely is hard enough, adding in hitting the exact same patch of rock time and time again adds needless complexity.
Even so, they claim to have done it.
Other sources included earlier proposals to use the Moon as a radio wave reflector, which date back to 1928. The first proof of this concept was the Project Diana program of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1946, which detected radar waves bounced off the Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_Moon_Relay
Four years ago (1962), a ruby laser considerably smaller than those now available shot a series of pulses at the moon, 240,000 miles away. The beams illuminated a spot less than two miles in diameter and were reflected back to earth with enough strength to be measured by ultrasensitive electronic equipment.
https://www.checktheevidence.com/wordpress/2019/01/03/national-geographic-magazine-december-1966-the-lasers-bright-magic/
1962, that is before the alleged Moon landing.
Moon rock reflecting light, like virtually every other matter, doesn't mean they act like a mirror works like a mirror. Otherwise, we would use rocks when combing our hair in the morning. Plus, they know exactly where the mirrors are.
Lasers lose focus with distance. You can use a laser at a short distance with a lower power laser, making your cat chase it, as it reflects off the floor. Trying to reflect laser light off the moon would require a very powerful laser, or something more reflective to hit it with, like a mirror, because the moon is very far away.
The sun, being very very bright, is capable of putting out light that reflects off rocks.
They know exactly where those mirror are, but placing a man on the Moon they can not?
Your sentence reads like Yoda wrote it. What exactly are you saying?
I am saying that if you believe in the moon landing, you believing in the moon reflectors also make total sense. Instead of watching those Space wars movies, try going outside, and look at just how bright the moon is.