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Didn't people believe at some point that moon landings themselves caused the Moon to vibrate or something along those lines? Always found that eyebrow-raising.
by xaduha 7y ago
Didn't people believe at some point that moon landings themselves caused the Moon to vibrate or something along those lines? Always found that eyebrow-raising.
- simonh 7y agoYou might be thinking of impactor probes, in which a vehicle is deliberately crashed into the moon (or another body) in order to generate shockwaves. Previously landed seismic instruments can us this to gather information about the moon's internal structure.
- arethuza 7y agoThe ascent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules were deliberately crashed onto the Moon to generate shock waves to support seismology experiments: https://www.popsci.com/how-apollo-lunar-modules-were-smashed-for-science https://www.popsci.com/how-apollo-lunar-modules-were-smashed...
- wallace_f 7y agoAlso, for the record this was explicitly discussed in the OP...
- wuliwong 7y agoThere is a "hollow moon" conspiracy theory where one of the pieces of evidence cited is that the moon rang like a bell because of the impact of the lander.
- teh_infallible 7y agoI think what you meant to say is, “There’s evidence that the moon is hollow. It rang like a bell because of the impact of the lander.”
- cblock811 7y agoThey probably meant exactly what they wrote and didn't need a snarky correction.
- somatic 7y agoThe phrase “conspiracy theory” is a thought-terminating cliché used to delineate heretical from approved thought. If the Moon did indeed “ring like a bell”, it’s evidence of something, whether that something fits within our preconceptions or not. No, I’m not making an argument.
- astrobe_ 7y agoConspiracy theories (flat earth etc.) are twenty-teen trolling devices. Don't feed the trolls.