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considering with a high enough powered telescope people have actually seen the flag on the moon... yeah

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Really, I didn't know that. Do you know where/if the pictures could be found?
Yeah, I thought the way a telescope gathers light prevents us from seeing the flag on the moon. It's one of the common conspiracy theory "proofs". They say you can't see the flag with a telescope, therefor we didn't land. The rebuttal is that telescopes gather light and the flag ends up "bleached out" of the image. Most people think that a telescope acts like a giant magnifying glass, which isn't really true.
that's why they have to calculate it so that there's a certain light spread on the moon and such. I don't remember the details, there was a lot of math involved and there was only like a 3 hour window or something where it could be seen.

It seemed pretty valid to me when I read it

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