I’ve never been impressed by the ‘Mirrors on the moon that can reflect Lasers!’. That’s of no use to a sceptic. When Mythbusters did it, they looked at a computer screen, saw a display that looked like a WW2 radar image and said ‘Well, we’re convinced!’.
You need a multi-million dollar laser. When it hits the moon, the beam from the laser is 6.5 KMs wide. Only 1 out of 10^17 photons is received back on earth. Of course it is real, but it’s so far outside the understanding of most non-scientists as to be almost meaningless. You cannot see a light spot reflecting from the moon.
Oh, and for all the Apollo-ites out there, just to waste many hours of your valuable time - (well, I did) have a look at this… Apollo 17
Silly him. That always raises a logical dead end: Do I trust him or an engineer who doesn’t think the moon landing was a hoax–like this one. This looks like a good site that goes over a lot of the CTer’s points, including computer capability. If you ever get him to read it, I’d sure like to hear his reaction.
Really? What about the thousands of engineers on planet Earth in the 60s and 70s? I don’t recall one, connected to NASA or not; US, Soviet, Chinese, or whatever; who said “wait… this is ridiculous, we don’t have the technology to do this”.
If it’s so obvious to your friend that we didn’t have the necessary technology at the time, how much more obvious would it have been to the engineers then?
It is impossible to calculate the size of the earth without a spaceship and a super computer… The idea that the Greeks did it in 250 BC is just a conspiracy to disprove the turtles all the way down theory.