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the reason why i was wondering that is ..

i was watching this show, which was about measuring the distance between the moon and earth, and newtons laws were just an approximation bla bla bla..


so to prove newtons laws weren't really correct this nasa guy was showing this reflector placed on the moon surface, and he was telling how they bounce the laser light back and forth. and he made a joke about, oh and here is the ziploc bag astranaouts left because there was no littering restriction once they were there.




now don't get me wrong this has nothing to do with conspiracy theory stuff. and i don't think any government would fake such thing.

my question is why ziplock ? why would you take stuff there that has the risk of melting and losing its form on such an environment.

like, of course it wouldn't catch flames as there is no oxygen to oxidize things. but it definitely would lose its form, get wrinkly or even worse rip or ruin scientific instruments.

moons temperature is (from what i read) around 110-130C degrees daytime and -150 to -233 night time. and even hubble space telescope has thermal blankets etc all around it to protect the lenses and other instruments (even tho lenses have much higher melting point).