A Critical Review of the Lunar Laser Ranging · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1805.05863/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Critical Review of the Lunar Laser Ranging — mentioned by Silverback_VIIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35758241urn:hackerpapers:mention:1805.05863:35758241Sat, 29 Apr 2023 23:17:51 GMT<p>The whole thing is not as clear-cut as you are portraying it here. Furthermore, not even the best-equipped amateur astronomer can verify it. And also: &quot;Therefore either all retroreflectors have degraded such that their return signals fit to the scattered return from the lunar soil or the measurements were indeed taken to the lunar surface only.&quot; https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05863</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1805.05863/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.IM