[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: Lord of the Rings style link to NASA Canberra

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Gmail was monitoring my conversation, and suggested
http://www.adc.com/productsandservices/wirelesssolutions/event/mmw.jsp

Spooky gmail...

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Paul van den Bergen
<paul.vandenbergen at gmail.com> wrote:
> ah... clever folks those NASA engineers...
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Zik Saleeba <zik at zikzak.net> wrote:
>> It's called a retroreflector:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroreflector
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Zik
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Naz Gassiep <naz at mira.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> As I understand it, that is not possible. There is no geometry that can
>>> reflect a path to its origin from any angle and any origin.
>>> - Naz.
>>>
>>> hannah commodore wrote:
>>>
>>> Paul van den Bergen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> if I understand correctly, NASA left a mirror on the moon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> they did leave a refroreflector on the moon, but by design it only
>>> reflects lasers back to the same location from where they came
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment
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