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To: Sicon

Nice try with that crappy picture. They couldn’t even afford to come up with a landscape picture so they just put a huge black panel behind the set. May have been ok, but the IDIOTS then lit up the foreground like it’s daytime, complete with shadows! Daytime with a black sky - oh really, like nice try, because I’M NO IDIOT.


53 posted on 05/21/2025 2:59:10 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Well, apparently you don’t understand reflectivity. The lunar regolith is very REFLECTIVE, which is why the moon is so bright in our night sky. The light hitting the moon’s surface is scattered all over the place. That is why the astronaut, in the shadow of the LEM, is still lit up, though clearly not to the same extent that he would be if he were in direct sunlight. It really isn’t complicated.


59 posted on 05/22/2025 7:05:20 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: BobL
Also, "daytime with a black sky":

Yes, because the Moon has no atmosphere. Therefore, apart from the Moon's surface, there is nothing to reflect or refract the light from the Sun. And so, just like the "sky" (a.k.a. empty space) outside the ISS or anything else in space, is black, the sky above the Moon is black.

Again, it isn't really complicated. And beyond the simple reasoning, do you honestly believe that thousands of people participated in this "hoax"? Do you honestly believe that NASA created all of the telemetry, radio transmissions, video recordings, and fake moon rocks (that they brought back), and that they convinced dozens of Apollo astronauts, flight engineers, and the media to go along with it? Do you honestly believe that India is actively participating in the hoax by fabricating photos (50+ years after the fact) of the Apollo 11 descent stage on the lunar surface?

If you're not an idiot, you must at least be wearing a nice tinfoil hat.

60 posted on 05/22/2025 7:21:20 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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