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To: rickmichaels


140 posted on 11/07/2015 5:35:03 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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In this Lunatic’s movie, he complains that no one can see the astronaut’s faces in their helmets. . . and opines that it’s because they really aren’t the actual astronauts but stand-ins. He also claims the backpack life support systems are empty because they’d be too heavy under Earth side conditions so they had to run high-speed airconditioning on the set to keep the actors cool in the spacesuits under the hot lights.

He ignores that the visors of the spacesuits are partially mirrored, i.e., reflectorized, to protect the men inside from the very bright light of the harsh unfiltered sunlight. It is darker inside the helmets than outside. Try looking through reflectorized sunglasses sometime and see if you can see the eyes of the person wearing them. As for for this photo, it should have an engraving in the convex mirror similar to what every driver is familiar with in the right hand rear-view mirror of his car “Objects In Rear View Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear!” The astronaut holding the camera and taking the photo is, Neil Armstrong, and is the one being reflected in the helmet visor circled in the smaller red circle, while the one wearing the helmet is Buzz Aldrin, whose shadow stretches ahead of him.


145 posted on 11/07/2015 6:03:53 PM PST by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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