Can I See the Flag On the Moon Through My Telescope
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- While the flag planted on the lunar surface by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin may actually be buried in moondust now, the question always comes up as to whether my telescope, the Celestron NexStar 8SE, is powerful enough to actually see artifacts leftover by the Apollo moon landing missions.
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its not rheir kubrick filmed the fake moon landing dont be decived
@@jameswood7689 so you say decades ago they used cgi to make moon landing? R u that stupid?
I guess it's time to buy a teliscope as big as the earth
Cool vids sir 👍🏻😃
@@BrumeNoire no lol he basically speaks without knowing anything his telescope is bad thats why he cant see the flag
I believe we should be able to see the flag in a few more years with the 5000x zoom on the Samsung Galaxy Ultra S27 Ultra Pro Max.
meh ill wait 2 more years for the superior phone manufacturer(apple) to come out with it
@@dylanlawson9097😂 thats funny
@@dylanlawson9097 "superior phone manufacturer" lmfaooo thats a good one
@@kornellbrown3802 apple is superior, go cry about it somewhere else
@user-nj8mv4oy6i no no no i think apple is superior. androids could print money and give me the ability to fly and i still would own a iphone
What if you put the telescope a little higher like on a chair.(?) Your (you're) welcome 👌
That’s so dumb as it would only make a minuscule difference; it would have to be on a tall ladder or maybe the roof. That’s why they don’t mount the satellite dishes on chairs 🤦🏻♂️
@@parkeranderson5074 it’s a joke
@@parkeranderson5074 wait are you joking? I’m confused now
Edit: Just to clarify, YES I KNOW IT’S A JOKE some people seem to not under stand that.
Peripheralzx Of course it will work, it always does.
@@peripheralzx11 lol 😂 😂😂
To see the flag you have to find the studio where they filmed this event first 😂
yeah we never land it
U mean the Hollywood basement
😂😂😂😂
I'm looking to this comment 😂😅😊
😁😁😂 I didn't say any
People be seeing the craters on the moon and think they are the size of potholes but they are actually massive
Deep space telescopes: "I can see thousands of light-years away, but that thing*flag on the moon*, that thing terrifies me."
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Not trying to look smart, but there is a difference between seeing an object from far away, compared to zooming in on it to see very little detail. finding the flag on the moon is like finding a single needle in the intire ocean
Yes indeed but don’t forget these distant objects are typically massive.
Hundreds of million lightyears away*
@@l.v1473 eh, you get the point
Try disconnecting your telescope for 30 seconds then plugging it back in
Ok this is gold😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol, you made me h
literally laugh out loud! Funny very funny
Lmao
overused cringe power off jokes begging for likes strike again.. smh
@@itsmecurser6385 oh man, thank you! Someone I can agree with. Isn't it sad/scary that this is what people find hilarious?
The amount of the clueless people in this comment section is astronomically high lol
exactly lmao
You will never see that flag on the moon because it's not there...
Fly me to the moon in theaters now 😂
You will never see the brain in your head because it’s not there…
Actually several countries have sent up lunar orbiters that showed pictures of the flag .
@@toledojeeper2932 yeah this guy is full of crap lol many telescopes we have in space could see the flag
@@ValidT ..Lunar orbiters get much closer to the moons surface than any scope can . Even with high image resolution the flag is barely visible in pictures from the orbiters . There is no scope that can see the flag .
It’s actually because of the render distance
Only true gamers understand
@Anita Patel In open world games there is a certain distance after which objects ,landscapes or NPCs don't render...that distance is called render distance..
"We will NOT sacrifice our frame rate for pretty pictures!" -Buzz Aldrin.
@@Areyouserious1 "every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes"
@@johannesziaether3916 😂Ah manh don't do me like that
Please tell me you released the moon after capturing it. That thing is for everybody.
#freethemoon
LOL
LMAO
I got drunk last night and set my moon free
On God bro Werewolves finna be mad asf when they find out this news #freethemoon 🔗🔒🔑🪧⚪
@@MrRamRain as a member of the werewolf community I’m disgusted by this news #freethemoon #fullmoondeprived
The reason why you can’t see the flag is because it was left in the studio. 😂
😂
People underestimate how far the moon is
Or how big it is
Apparently its local at 3miles up😅
Makes no sense because the bubble telescope can look back to the beginning of the universe. We have observatories on earth. Yeah I don't believe we went to the moon.
@@thedarksideoftheforce6658Are you familiar with spectroscopy? The science doesn't lie... You just refuse to learn about it.
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The only way you can see the flag from the moon landings, you point the telescope towards the Nevada desert where it was filmed
SOOO true❣️❣️❣️❣️
Hilarious....
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You can't see the flag when you point it to a place on earth if it was undeniably proven to be on the moon. Idiot.
come on - just look for the planes they build in the 60s like the SR71. They were much enthousiastic than we are today in these days... our society has no goals anymore... our goals are feeding Africa and South America in the North and defend our systems again the Islam. That are our big visions in the western hemisphere...
"My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined"
Lol
My immeasurable is ruined and my disappointment is day.
Brah
You'd be even more disappointed when you see the flag and realize it has been bleached by the sun and is now white
My disappointment was expected and my day is not that ruined.
will never believe we went to the moon back in the 60s
Good for you😂
Ignorance is bliss huh
We went 5 times.
@@scottbreseke716 who told you that
@@Frommarsss The internet had this to say: "There were six crewed landings between 1969 and 1972, and numerous uncrewed landings. All crewed missions to the Moon were conducted by the Apollo program, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972."
It would help if there was a flag there to begin with
Are you dumb?
They should have planted a bigger flag on the moon when they didn’t land on it
I think Russia would have had something to say at the time if they didn't
Def would help
You are part right - they aren’t there because they are stand issue government flags that first would have faded but after years of ultraviolet radiation hitting them they all have degraded to nothing. All that remains are the poles.
It was once said, it would be like trying to spot a penny on The coast of South America from the empire state building.
If the penny was fake.
O
@@typheran1 joking or are you that naive?
@@typheran1 your parents' marriage is fake
@@psion1C who said that his parents were married? Don’t worry, hopefully you won’t be a virgin forever.
Moon portrayed in movies and cartoons:
O °
Reality:
O °
No shit
Sun and moon are local and under the firmament
@@TheL4LMusic Your brain is under the firmament, it’s 2022, time to come out
nah its more like
° .
o °
I like how he's saying sorry when you literally need a telescope as big as the earth
But by linking together all the satellite dishes around the world, you could.. get close to seeing it.. they have been using that method for a long time now..
But as far as I'm aware... Most if not all the colour would be bleached out by now.. due to the sun's rays...
So you would see a white flag...
Also... I should add that while we are moving and that the moon is also moving.. this might make even more difficult to spot as the satellite array would need to be in the right place at the right time.... It could take years if not longer.. as the moon has it's phases...
@@jonathanmain9079 so the moon belongs to France now ?
Actually, you need a telescope that’s 200 m in diameter to see it
@@SerenityScratch 😂 I did the math and came out at about the same number. About 234 meters in diameter for a resolution of 1 meter at that distance. I was thinking " damn it'd have to be big but the size of the earth is overkill"
@@TheMichaelEarl You sound smart can the Hubble space telescope see it since it's closer
Optical engineer here: if you wanted to image the flag with an object space resolution of 1", you'd only need a telescope ~9km in diameter. To resolve it with Nyquist sampling (two lambda/D) you'd only need a 900meter telescope.
An optical telescope the size of the earth would allow you to image something as small as 10 microns on the moon!
Of course, all of this ignores atmospheric distortion, but you could make an AO system to fix that problem
A 13.8 cm telescope can achieve 1" resolution. The apperant size of the flag is around 1 mas (mili " or mili arcsecond), which requires 138 m, but more likely around a few times that, so 500 m.
Still far away that the biggest telescope is 40 m (still under construction).
How would cameras work on the Moon, How would the film survive,
Thank you! I knew "size of the earth" was wrong, but I didn't want to have to dig out my old physics textbooks and try to remember how to figure it out.
@@alexcwagner Don't say it then...
@@PLEVIthe film doesn't need to breathe, so yes, it would survive :) Jokes aside, films were extensively used during the Apollo missions and there are thousands of pictures available, so the answer is yes.
That’s because there is simply no flag!
Have you tried squinting though? I can always see things in the distance better when I squint.
Ohh should definitely try that
Its a smudge on the lens
I tend to stack 5 telescopes together and put on my glasses for the best effect
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You need glasses! You're short sighted
Gonna be honest. I don’t believe you’d need a telescope the size of the earth to see a flag on the moon
That does sound ridiculous, but then again.. idk.. the moon is extremely far away and youre trying to find something extremely small. You could do the calculations and figure out how large of an aperture would be needed. But ill leave that for someone else to work out. Lol
Around 200 meters, or about a 1/8 of a mile in diameter to see the flag.
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono 1/8 of a mile to see it
Some 50 years ago, no one believed humans could go to moon...
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono make big flag
Actually, even with telescopes as big, as earth, theres difraction limit
No, not the size of the earth, but 200m meters on diameter.
So in other words: the event horizon telescope just got its next project.
Lol
Wait just a darn sec. We do have the tech to see the flag. It’s called moon crack telescope. It sees between even the tightest creeks!
The movie ? Lol check out the channel on CZcams my next stop from. Here
That would be incredible. there's radar telescopes that have imaged the shuttle and other satellites, would be cool to see an earth sized virtual aperture image of the apollo sites
My thoughts exactly
Chuck Norris can see the individual stitches on the lunar flag with his bare eyes.
With glasses on for extremely farsighted people.
...and his eyes are closed
Maybe that's why the moon is so far away. Chuck Norris keeps staring at it!
when Chuck Norris breathes, it gives the flag on the moon some sway.
@@codearchive3218 No, you shouldn't exaggerate, it's when he farts that it does that
People who ask this question really don't understand the scale of the universe.
And it’s up to people like you, who understand this, to educate them.
So why didnt they take a bigger flag and pin it down?
Meanwhile Google Maps laughing at faces being shown inside houses.
12,OOO Kilometers Satellite from the ground
vs
30 Earths Lined together across, that's how far the Moon is.
You can fit all the other planets of our solar system between the earth and the moon
@@verenice7475 You're telling me that both Saturn and Neptune fit in that space? They are huge already, are you sure bout that?
@@Schokofussel saturn's diameter is about 150 thousand km, and neptune's is about 50 thousand km, the rest of the planets aren't any bigger, while distance between the earth and the moon is about 350 thousand km
@@Schokofussel you could also fit almost a third of the sun in that distance I think
I was hella upset about this factoid until my man pulls out the “ sorry about that.”
Everything is forgiven 🥺
Same lol.
Im weak 🤣🤣🤣
Factoid
😂
What did you expect bruh
Surely no one is that stupid to think you would be able to see the flag? 💀
Surely no one is that stupid to think there was an actual moon landing
bc it was@@DanielWippichPhotography
It also doesn’t help that the flag blew over when the lunar lander took off
Some people give off the most wholesome vibes just by how they speak.
Factssss
Agreed!
I had no idea it would be as simple as that. Wow it’s worse than I thought.
And he aint one of em
@@lenkazdraviciv-4896 get out.
First time anybody said "I get this question a lot" and I believed them
You must be surrounded around a lot of untrustworthy people. Sorry to hear.
Well, his mum asked him!
@@Under-Kaoz no, it's commonly pretext for an excuse to boast, especially on social media, "I get this question alot, what's life like with a 10 incher".
@@MZhris sounds like you have to the wrong people added on social media. Sorry to hear for you too man.
@@Under-Kaoz you seem like a doormat.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has gotten some amazing pictures. Always enjoyed your videos chuck! Keep it up
I think people forget the size of the moon and planets when they are looking at features on the surfaces. Like the "cities" on mars, you would never be able to see something as small as a building on a planet as far as mars. Its stupid
You may have lied to yourself in the past, but in the modern era you cannot escape the truth
But satellites can see into my subconscious.. something’s fishy
All sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, We can’t do anything to save us and to get us to Heaven but Jesus died on the cross for our sins, was buried and rose the 3rd day. Jesus died for us so now you can have eternal life with Him but thats if your believing in the Gospel. Die without Jesus then you will be in Hell🤍
Yeah I know I thought the same thing
@Why you look like that Jesus man calm down let him live
No satelites, cos theres no space. Everythings under the dome.
@@vvl3m3vv42 proof?
But the government can read your license plate from space.
*If* that’s true, it will be using satellites in low Earth orbit. The Moon is almost 400,000 kilometres away.
Would it surprise you to learn that low-earth orbit spy satellites are much closer to the earth than the earth is to the moon?
From a satellite sure, but those arent nearly as far away as the moon is
No they can’t.
No they can not. If you have seen the Fast and Furious movie where they have a device called God's Eye where they can use anything with a camera, there you go. Keep that in mind the next time you're using your phone and looking at.......well you get the idea. If they are looking for a specific plate, all they need is an area and a justifiable reason (ie terrorism, presidential death threat and etc)
That if there was a flag to begin with.
Spoiler alert… there’s no flag on the moon
If you can see the flag, you’ll probably see it whipping around in space wind.
Just add another telescope to the telescope you have, should work like a charm😎
lol good one!
Absolutely this!!
Bro!! R u ok???
Manipulating! This is how mankind works
Telescope-ception
You've got to turn off the "Fog of War" setting on your telescope first. Should be in the settings menu somewhere.
😂
It's your move, Commander.
If you know you know!! There's a big war on the moon going on right now.
Not even Hubble can.
Because they never went there
If you wanted to see the flag from Apollo 11 on the moon you need to point your telescope to Hollywood.
where you find it on the beach xD
you will see the flag at the film set in area 51 in the Nevada Desert
Facts
Love this comment! So true!
Conspiracy garbage.
The lunar reconnaissance orbiter has taken images of the landing site, including the lunar rover and the tracks it left behind.
I took an astronomy class in college, and one of the exercises was calculating how small an object we could see on the moon. As I recall, the smallest object we could make out was several kilometers in size.
"Yo mama so fat we could see her on the surface of the moon."
@@soretuber847 your mama genes is so flawed she made you.
Can you send me your formula and your solution? Thanks
@@pinoyako9830 I know right, would love to see that formula!
Yeah depends on the telescope. Even hubble wouldn't be able to resolve much less than 200m
A single pixel of that moon while zoomed is hundreds of times bigger than the flag.
A speck on the moon is the size of Texas
The highest resolution of the moon, from the earth, is roughly 25' x 25' per pixel. Still not enough resolution.
Just aim the telescope towards the Nevada desert; it should be somewhere around there!
are you ok?
Moon Base Earth!
All I gotta do is look out my window in the Bay Area when the rain stops; my neighbors got 1 up, though I got 2 in my house lol
underrated comment
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You’re on a Tim from grand illusions level of wholesome
He's a total plumbus
I love that guy (NoHomo)
That’s what I was gonna say
true lol
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever ! The newest telescope in space isn't as big as the earth and it can see in great detail galaxies and other stuff way way way farther away than the moon so why can't we see close ups of the moons surface ? It's not that far away ! A telescope as big as the earth ? Really ? Why can we see so far out in space than with a telescope that is not as big as the earth ???
borrow them telescopes you’ve been talking about and try it on the moon then 😒
They never went to the moon, sorry guys
about 100m in diameter plus adaptive optics may get you to see the flag. The earth size telescope is a huge overstatement
No optical telescope is EVER going to be capable of rendering an object that small at this distance through the earth's atmosphere in a way that a human can recognize. It's simply not possible to constructed lenses or mirrors of the size and precision required. The largest lenses and mirrors ever constructed wouldn't even render such a thing as a DOT visible to a human, let alone an image that can be recognized as a flag.
It takes far less is the lenses and the optical equipment is made for focussing on small objects.
This guy leaves cookies and milk for Santa
I would also if Santa left me an 8" telescope.
Sounds like you need a drool rag.
@@KrisMinnear 8" that would be small one
😂😂😂😂
I genuinely laughed out loud on that comment.
The fact buzz aldrin himself said it was all animation is wild
No, he said that the footage broadcast at the moment they were landing was animation. What's wild about that?
I don't think you'd need a telescope as big as the earth to see it. A quick calculation with the Rayleigh criterion gives an answer of about 258 meters for the aperture. The biggest telescopes in the world have apertures of about 10 meters, so still 25 times larger than anything that exists.
So you'd need a mirror as big as a skyscraper and the Dome would be about as tall as an aircraft carrier.
Note to self:
we need a earth size flag for the next moon landing.
Bold of you to assume we’ve been to the moon
@@ericnelson3102
Yeah, I'm pretty bold.
Actually, bold and pretty. 😎
@@ericnelson3102
But yeah, all jokes aside, it's even bolder to assume that we haven't been on the moon.
Right
@@ericnelson3102 And you're pretty dumb to deny it.
We just have to increase the render distance, but be careful as it may fry your telescope.....Do it at your own risk
Time to overclock it!
@@valentinperezcerutti7336 And water cooling with a custom EK block. Ggez telescope mustard race.
@@rorschacht8478 *vodka cooling*
What do you mean by render distance?
@@Vignana_Pradarshana its a minecraft joke...its like you can increase the visibility
So they can see planets light years away with telescopes but can’t see a flag pole on the surface of the moon? I call BS
‘So I can see a mountain fifty kilometres away but can’t see a speck of dirt on a rock fifty metres away? I call BS’.
Jesus, you people are stupid.
and yet we can see stars billions of lightyears away..
The "sorry about that" completely caught me off guard
My first instinct was "awe its okay buddy"
You know why you can't see the flag? Coz it's not there. It's in Universal Studios.
Truth! They never been there
Well that's sure the truth
Lovely claim. Got any evidence of that or are you just making things up?
@@elijahsmall5873 am pretty sure he's just joking
@@ricardoarguel1624 I guess
Most people have no idea how far away the moon actually is from the Earth
Yea we do, and that’s how we know they never went 😂
@@parlorgemz2405 would be funny if you were right, but other countries were tracking the moon landing. Not just us. They have no incentive to keep quiet if it was faked. Fact is, Russia was getting very close themselves and saw that we just made it first.
😂
@@n300zx931😂
the flag is no more intact because it was exposed to solar radiation and extreme temperature fluctuations, so that lead to degradation.
No, you cannot see the flag on the moon. Your telescope (and all terrestrial telescopes, even the largest) have diffraction limits well below the angular separation needed to see a flag on the moon - and even if your telescope was big enough, you would probably be limited by seeing (atmospheric) conditions.
Finally a comment written by someone with a brain
"Even the telescope bigger than Earth cannot find the flag on the Moon"
Its not there.
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😂
Flatearther detected.
@@kwalletje99 I know it does sound funny, that's what I thought. The only thing is for me, if they actually go back to the moon, I will believe the flag is there. From what I'm seeing, NASA already said they need to figure out how to protect the occupants from the radiation. I'm like 50/50 whether we did go to the moon or not. NASA already delayed the so called return for about a decade already. Said they need a few years to build a space suit. Whole thing is fishy.
@@kwalletje99 😂💀 fr
that's because you're looking in the wrong direction, the flag is in Hollywood
To see the flag on the moon you need a telescope with a diameter of 182 meters
Why dont find the rover?
@@january10005i meant you can't see the flag too if you don't have a big telescope
his voice is so nice, i even said “it’s okay” when he said “sorry about that!”
same 😭😭
Honestly yeah. Very kind sounding person
Sounds like he needs to cough into a handkerchief
Then you will hear Morgan freeman narrating
Same, he sounds like a caring granpa
According to the diffraction limit equation, you need a telescope with an objective lens diameter of 516 meters to resolve 0.5m objects from 384,400km away.
If you want to see the stripes on an American flag, you are probably looking at 15x that lens size.
Not quite the size of the planet, but bigger than most people would be able to afford. If you could afford that, you may as well pay SpaceX to send a moon satellite to take some pictures.
Better yet, doesn't China already have a satellite in orbit of the moon from the Chang'e 4 mission? Maybe ask the CNSA to snap a picture.
Literally impossible to build an optical telescope even a quarter that size though
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The face we see of the moon is large enough to hold the continental United States...the Apollo 11 leftovers would be the size of a car.
You can see the moon landing sites to include tracks from the lunar rover to experiments left there from the LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER photographs.
I believe in some cases you’re able to see the reflections of the Mirrors that were placed on the moon. That’s the only artefact you can see
@Mathew Ajo I think the main reason for the mirrors was because they theorised that the moon is moving away from the earth. So now they use those mirrors to measure how fast per year
@Mathew Ajo Thats what you are told, and you have no evidence to back up your statements.
@Mathew Ajo Yes majority of stuff we were all taught are just lies. Its not visible because its not there, moon is not terra firma.
@@idontcare7961 "Stop it. Get some help"
@@oscarwinchester7812 ?
"Sorry about that"...that was a cool and humble ending! 👍
look up Ulilila on YT and tell YT it's not him.
Its okey... No worries... We understand
Of course you can not see the flag,cause they never made it up there.
its hard to see something that doesnt exist
oddly enough I'm currently building a telescope the size of the earth just to see the flag
Amazing, me too! I wonder when we collide.
Hahahaha! Can it find my wife's well soiled panties?
@@kentakobashi1197 Can you help me find my wife's well soiled panties?
@@kentakobashi1197 lmao
Chump, I'm building a rocket ship out of an old Hyundai to just get there myself. How hard can it be? If I get lucky, I can trade it in for a Tesla while I'm up there.
It's basically the equivalent of seeing a grain of rice on the beach from the top of a tall skyscraper 25-miles away with a pair of binoculars. Even if you know where to look, you won't find it.
@RC_car:v2 It would be bleached by the Sun’s rays anyways
@RC_car:v2 its bs
@RC_car:v2 Did you mean millions of miles/kms? Neptune is only 3.8 billion miles from Earth (339 light-minutes or just under 6hrs).
Additional considerations:
1) the flag on the Moon is tiny and even if we did have a big enough telescope on Earth, the image would be lost due to atmospheric distortions.
2) many of the visual images of Neptune we still use is from the Voyager which did a flyby so we got very close
3) Neptune is appx 84 million times larger for every mile of distance from Earth than the flag on the moon. That obviously doesn't make it 84 million times easier to see, but a certain resolution photo of Neptune will be significantly easier to get than the flag, even ignoring points 1 and 2.
Where #3 figures came from...
Neptune has a radius of 15,387mi which gives it a 1-sided surface area of 1.9 trillion meters (not accurate due to the spherical shape, but close enough). This means Neptune has a visual area of appx 506m for every mile of distance from Earth.
Meanwhile, the flag has a 1-sided surface area of 1.4m and is 225,623mi at its closest. Thus, the flag has a visual area of appx 0.000006m for every 1mi of distance from Earth.
@RC_car:v2 my bad, misunderstood your original comment, thought it was more like "if we can take pictures of Neptune [then] we should be able to..."
@RC_car:v2 that's interesting... would it be dust covered? I know it'll be washed out from solar radiation, but since the Moon has no atmosphere, the only "wind" is from the Sun.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me knows if 52yrs is sufficient or if it'd take millenia. Anyways, cheers and well wishes ✌🏼
Fun fact: this flag should have became completely white because of the solar radiation and the lack of atmosphere and magnetic field
it was always never there
Pretty sure if you take that telescope to NASA, you'll find the flag in the studio
You can also bounce lasers from earth to the moon and get the reflection back. They did this for people like you.
@@ricardoconqueso Ya? Is that what they did? for people like me? That's cool!
@@ricardoconqueso you sure do believe everything you are told its typical for people like you
so funnny and true :D
@@GOOCHIElicker bro u can literally do that experiment for yourself.
"Every 60 seconds in africa, a minute passes"
someone should DO something
All day long?
Oh the humanity!
Racist 😂
Dude...why you put this knowledge on us!!
The implications of this.......
I can't carry around the burden of knowing this!!
Actually we already photographed the black hole in the center of our galaxy, and from Earth it has the same size than a donut on the moon, so if you have the same telescope( I don't think it's an optical telescope though), you could see the flag.
You have the same chance of seeing Jesus waving in Copernicus crater.
Theoretically speaking, couldn’t we launch a satellite around the moon that could capture ground images in more decent resolution?
yes
Why would we do that?
@@gplor5259 why did we send people to the moon?
@@etonakoxD we didn't that was directed by Stanley Kubrick
@@etonakoxD for political prestige during the cold war.
The colors have wiped by now, so it’s a French Flag now (all white)
🤣👌🏻 the way they been acting recently it wont be the only one
Lmaooo
No, that's the flag you waved in Vietnam. And it's seems to be reusable 😉
@@huskytail Lmao France gave it to us on the way out, Vietnam being theirs and all.
Don't say that! Now the loons on the left are going to claim racism.
That's because it's still in a Hollywood studio
Don't apologize, start building the telescope!
No matter how big the telescope is, you still can't see Uranus....
If you use another mirror you can!
@@wisdom-for-life "Put the mirror down, it's not worth it!" 😄
Only the proctologist can see it
@@SilverloafCustomRazors It is a bit scary the first time :DDD
@@wisdom-for-life 😄
The moon is actually much bigger than what the average person imagines.
People dont realise that there are mountains and ravines as big as those on planet earth on the moon. Like Kilimanjaro and Everest.
when i was a kid i thought the moon was so small you would be able to walk around the whole planet casually in an hour or so
It’s 27% of earth.
@@maxfl0yd Did you just.. call the moon a planet.
@@maxfl0yd like the size of a basketball i think
And yet the moon footage shows none of that.
I would love seeing a new taken picture of the american flag on the moon. But I realize it will never happen.
You’re so incredibly off by saying we would need a telescope as big as earth… To see it clearly, you would need an optical wavelength telescope with a diameter of around 200 meters. Or about the length of two football fields… far far from the size of earth.
The fact that a lot of people ask that question shows how little people actually understand distance and size
nah bro. we just overestimate the power of science. when you hear something like "we can see back in time until right after the big bang" you'd think we'd be able to see the flag on the moon
@@kildidarBut capturing really faint microwave radiation in every direction in the sky has nothing to do with capturing visible light from a really small object really far away. There are telescopes optimized for different scientific tasks, some are easier, some are harder to accomplish.
Fair point. I think, also, that lacking atmosphere, clouds, trees, etc makes people perceive the moon as tiny enough to be able to see something that, in comparison, is like a speck of dust on a basketball. I don't fault people for it. It's just wild to think that a majority of people view things very basically and almost 2D'ish. @@kildidar
Not everyone is going to have vast knowledge on distance and size tho are they
@@kildidarYou couldn‘t have confirmed the original comment in a better way.
I have 19 telescopes taped together. It's so powerful I can literally see myself being full of crap...
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It's actually a thing. It is called optical telescope interferometry. You are limited to selecting specific frequencies as you have to literally tune the distance between the telescopes so the individual waves of light line up to boost each other. It's much easier to do in radio or digitally now.
I guess you are focused on Uranus.
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I need only mirror for that.
It would help, if they had put a powerful light source on the moon, powered by solar batteries.
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