10 million miles? Sounds like a big number until you realize Venus is 67 million miles away, the sun is 95 million miles away, and mars is 142 million miles away. 10 million miles is really just a little past our property line.
The success here was being able to aim the laser accurately enough to hit the receiver on the earth while both are moving and the earth is turning.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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