why can I see studio lights on the moon? [PHOTO]

Yes, that is interesting, isn't it...

And look at the white rock infront of buzz compared to all the grey rocks on that picture.

They knew nothing then? You'll have to prove that. I doubt you can. They sent multiple probes through the belts. They knew the radiation environment in them. It is not necessary to send animals through that can't tell you what is wrong with them when multiple probes with instrumentation do a better job.
The astronauts didn't need radiation monitoring equipment to fly through them. Are you imagining some maze of radiation and multiple course changes? Their trajectory was planned well in advance to go AROUND the majority of the belts through the thinnest outer edge. No steering by the astronauts needed at all. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean they didn't.

They parrot the hoax mongers, they parrot each other.
Actual research is something they never do. Hence all the stupid questions.




Don't fucking lie.


Don't fucking lie.


Don't fucking lie.

WTF is wrong with you?

Are you blind?! The 2 sets of shadows [photo & visor reflection] are at completely different angles to each other!

Photo has the "sun" to the left of photographer and right of astroNOT...about photographers 10 o'clock. Shadow of AstroNOT being pphoto'd accordingly points to his 10 o'clock.

Shadows IN THE VISOR show the photographers shadows running out almost directly away from him TOWARDS astroNOT being photo'd Putting the "sun" almost directly behind him and more directly in front of the photographer. [rermember the visor is mirroring the image]

The REAL problem with pics like these is that these visor/shadow discrepancies are not simply a matter of bad stage lighting....the visor image HAD TO HAVE BEEN PURPOSELY EDITED this way...

fuck the damn shadows!!! compare the two image's content!!! I'll accept that there were 10 fucking suns all stacked up and shining down on the whole glorious landing site if someone can adequately explain why the photo's content IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE MIRRORED VISOR IMAGE!!!

clues for you apollo believers....

in the photo, the astroNOT is very close to camera AND THE LEM IS DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM IN THE IMAGE.

In the visor the astroNOT is very far away, reflecting a MUCH wider horizon....but NO LEM!!!!!!!

riddle me that?

convex visors.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't true.

you're asking why the LM, not LEM by the way, that is BEHIND the astronaut is not in the reflection in the same astronaut's visor? The visor that is showing reflections of stuff IN FRONT of him?

That's a new one.
People who don't know how a mirror works.

How is that even possible, there are mirrors everywhere.



Do you perchance mean the white bag behind Aldrin, under the LM?


Last Edited by Halcyon Dayz, FCD on 09/01/2012 03:14 PM

Straw man. Nobody said that -- except the hoaxies.




A lie. The Proton Belt was confirmed in 1958 -- first measured by Explorer 4 (and by a Soviet mission in the same time frame.




A lies. Not only was there measuring equipment outside and inside the spacecraft, the astronauts wore multiple dosimeters on their clothing to measure what got through to different parts of their body. All the collected data was tabulated and a simple pubs search will turn it up.




A lie and a repeat lie.




You actually got one right! No animal LANDED on the Moon. Just went into cislunar space, as well as through the VARB multiple times and even multi-hour stays in the lower belt (much longer than any Apollo flight).





Not tin, but who is counting now.

Yes, do...you might figure out something.



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:This^^^:

There is somthing truly odd about the Moon right now. Its full for a few more days so go look at it with binoculers or a spotting scope. The view is different. Its not the same as it has always been. The Moon does not spin but rotates around the Earth. We have had the same view all through history but that view is gone. The man on the moon is gone. Go watch it for yourselfs. Pick a spot and see if it has moved from one night to the next. Either it moved or the Earth is Wobbleing around. You decide.

Ah, good. Thank you for explaining what it is you expected to see. Otherwise we are trying to guess.


The basic problem is that you are not thinking in perspective, and there are two transforms involved here. The first is that a camera (or the human eye) is essentially a single focal point. All light has to converge there. So any lines that were straight and parallel in affine space MUST curve and converge in projective space.

The second is, of course, a spherical reflector, which is almost the reverse (but a similar kind of distortion.)

You can not -- it would be idiotic to -- directly compare any lines in different parts of the image. It would be as stupid as trying to directly match what is seen in a mirror to what is being reflected. Instead you have to treat each world as a separate coordinate set and solve them internally.

The shadows in the first space (the photographed scene) due to basic perspective converge on the source. Look at the slight angle between the shadow of the Solar Wind Collector, and Buzz. Follow the line of the lens flares; internal lens reflections will always point towards the source as well. (There is some distortion due to terrain elevation but basically they project).

The shadows in the INTERNAL scene (aka, that which is reflected off the helmet) are because of the convex reflector converging in the opposite direction; they are all pointing towards the center of the visor.

Now here's where it gets interesting. The photographer is center. He HAS to be, assuming a perfectly spherical visor (it isn't, but close enough for this example). The Sun is NOT, however, in the center of the picture. It out of frame on the left...at about a 10:00 position referenced to the angle between photographer and photographed astronaut.

Each shadow has a different base, of course, which are spaced around the photographer; SWC to his left, LM to his right. So all of those shadows must have bases coming from these positions. They all converge, however, on the anti-sun; since this is reciprocal of the perspective of the outer scene. Which they do. ALL the shadows are visibly converging in the anti-sun direction (you can see that most clearly with the shadow of the LM). You can't of course see the sun, but there is a fortunate effect of the lunar soil; it is retroflective, and the bright spot of heligenschien appears in the exact location on the horizontal plane that is opposite of the Sun.

Err, what?

Why would a mirror reflect something that was behind it?

Maybe he's a vampire. No personal experience.





I was guessing he meant a small rock closer to Aldrin; one that has near-vertical faces almost perfectly oriented to capture the light coming off the suit.

But it's a hoaxie. He could mean either. Or something even more absurd. And whatever he meant originally, he'll change it anyhow.

Hrm. Based on a closer reading of posts above, I think at least one of the AC's is having trouble with the concept of collapse of visual field; that what is shown in a hemispherical reflector is 180 degrees across. Even the wide angle camera lens isn't that great (120, if I remember correctly).

Because of this collapse, objects will appear "crushed together" -- human vision is about 60 degrees, so the apparent angle between objects is less than 1/2 of what you'd expect.

Concave - convex.

Guess there are people who have never really looked at a spoon.

the first pic with the flag is strange ,the flags shadows are going left and the other shadows are going right in the pic.

Take a closer look: [link to www.hq.nasa.gov]

You can barely see bits of the thin flag-post's shadow on the accidented terrain. But it's there.
The thick shadow on left is from something else.
Namely the Solar Wind Composition Experiment which we saw in picture 8.

Hahahaha. I love this.

Bad stage lighting? Call it impossible! Go to any university with a decent technical theater program and ask them about achieving a seamless effect with multiple lights. They'll all sigh deeply. Can't be done. You are always struggling with edge mis-match and multiple shadows.

And, no. I'm not looking at the picture now, but everything you say is consistent with you failing to understand affine space. No camera with a field of view larger than an infinitesimal dot will create an image in which all lines are presented parallel in picture space. It is basic geometry. Any image taken of, say, the shadows cast by various objects, will have those shadows oriented in different ways depending on their location within the picture frame. Do random image searches. Look at fence posts, trees. Sheep. Look at anything. Get out the straight edge and draw the projection of the shadows. They will converge. They HAVE to.