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Nvidia sinks moon landing hoax using virtual light
cnet.com ^ | September 19, 2014 12:50 PM PDT | Nick Statt

Posted on 09/20/2014 7:13:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The first manned missions to Earth's satellite began in 1969 with Apollo 11. Just a few years later, conspiracies sprouted up claiming that potentially each of the six lunar landing crews and every one of the 12 Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon had in fact participated in an elaborate ruse. To the conspiracists, it may never have happened -- or didn't happen like NASA said it did -- and oh by the way, we duped the Russians into losing the space race.

Voxel global illumination, however, proves them wrong, says Nvidia. The technique, which the new GTX 970 and 980 can tap into, lets developers use dynamic lighting that will bounce, diffuse and reflect in real-time with unprecedented fidelity when new objects are added to a scene. Nvidia's GPUs are enhanced chips that allow graphics cards to more effectively and efficiently take data from a central processing unit, or CPU, and turn it into moving images on a display. In other words, voxel global illumination is the perfect rendering tool to tackle moon landing hoaxes that often use as evidence for their claims lighting discrepancies with NASA photography.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Science
KEYWORDS: apollo; moon; nasa; nvidia
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1 posted on 09/20/2014 7:13:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin; zot; Interesting Times; SeraphimApprentice

Thank you for posting this study that disproves the “moon landing was hoax theories.”


2 posted on 09/20/2014 7:18:12 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Conspiracy nuts are just that but the ‘moon landing hoax army’ are an especially irritating lot.


3 posted on 09/20/2014 7:21:51 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: BenLurkin

Can’t they see with telescopes stuff left on the moon?


4 posted on 09/20/2014 7:22:58 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: BenLurkin

The moon landing “hoax” sinks under the weight of sanity.

The idea that the many people involved could be kept silent is ludicrous. Its kinda like the foolishness of the people who see bones, animals and buildings all over mars. Simple logic destroys those fantasies. The Space agency that is constantly scrambling for money would not be hiding the things that would inevitably lead to a 100fold increase in their funding.


5 posted on 09/20/2014 7:23:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: GreyFriar

Do any of the hoax-believers even realize just how loudly the Soviets would have been screaming “HOAX!!!!” if that’s what it was!!?

Russian astronomers & satellite info instead told the Politburo the bad news that the Americans had beaten them in the race to the moon, and that U.S. astronauts had “boots on the ground” on the lunar surface.

Honestly, what some people will insist on believing in.


6 posted on 09/20/2014 7:23:23 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: BenLurkin

http://youtu.be/VmVxSFnjYCA

Mythbusters moon hoax


7 posted on 09/20/2014 7:28:12 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: relictele

Conspiracy nuts are just that but the ‘moon landing hoax army’ are an especially irritating lot


My take too. It requires a special kind of stupid.


8 posted on 09/20/2014 7:29:10 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: BenLurkin

But, what about the Moon Landing Hoax Hoaxes?


9 posted on 09/20/2014 7:30:06 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: SkyDancer

The tracks made by the lunar rover are visible with a powerful enough telescope, plus they left laser reflectors behind as well.


10 posted on 09/20/2014 7:30:21 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SkyDancer
no... not enough resolution
11 posted on 09/20/2014 7:31:34 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, and I am still eating the cheese...


12 posted on 09/20/2014 7:33:27 AM PDT by rusureitflies?
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To: BenLurkin

Nvidia is part of the conspiracy?


13 posted on 09/20/2014 7:33:41 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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14 posted on 09/20/2014 7:35:11 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Chode
we here at the Hoax Busters Studio have put the photos through our custom algorithms and discovered this....anomoly


15 posted on 09/20/2014 7:35:58 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: BenLurkin

The surface of the moon there is so reflective it looks like snow.

Can you imagine what an eerie, dreamy landscape that must’ve looked with the black sky and the barren snowy looking surface of the moon.


16 posted on 09/20/2014 7:36:01 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: MuttTheHoople

Moon Landing Hoax Hoaxes are for real.


17 posted on 09/20/2014 7:36:09 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SkyDancer

Not with a telescope. Is simply beyond the capability of any telescope built when you look at the resolution and magnification possible. Not really even close. The only view of the left behind things was done from a spacecraft. Those pics came out a year or two ago. And of course, if you don’t believe in the moon landing, you won’t believe a spacecraft sent to photograph the moon either.


18 posted on 09/20/2014 7:37:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think the moon landing deniers just have a problem with anything as cool as men on the moon because it happened when they were not part of the world that witnessed it.


19 posted on 09/20/2014 7:37:17 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: elcid1970

“Russian astronomers & satellite info instead told the Politburo the bad news”

More to the point, Russian mil voice, data, and image intercepts told them the bad news. Russian ELINT ships and subs were there when they went up and when they came down. Recorded, tracked, translated, and analyzed every step of the way. There was no doubt.

Russian satellites looked down, not up. No one in the Politburo cared what some astronomers claimed.

However, Russia could have easily duplicated the feat, but did not for other classified reasons.


20 posted on 09/20/2014 7:38:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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