APOLLO missions - image inconsistencies

Feb 26, 2012
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This seems about the most appropriate forum heading to post this so here goes.

I've often heard of controversy around various aspects of images from Apollo missions. I'd never taken it too seriously but an interesting old video on youtube ..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79mIGx9Ib4

.. caught my attention the other night and I started watching it.
I've only gone thru the first 1.5 hours, it's ~3:40 total.

They present a variety of interesting discontinuities and other inconsistencies which could lend some credence to some of these images being produced in ways that are not congruent with the official story.
Whether differences in lighting or physical geometry, some things just don't look right.

None of this was obvious, when I was a wide-eyed kid watching these events unfold, back in the day on a small B&W TV. Thinking about it now, that would have been an exceptional feat to accomplish with the technology of the time! So there's room for doubt.. and deception.

Has there been a good discussion on this topic on this site before?

If not, with all the expertise available here, it should be possible to have a very interesting one.

For convenience' sake, if you comment on this, or any other video you may reference on the subject, please include the video time relevant to your reply.
 
Actually this conspiracy theory was debunked by Myth Busters. They set up a scale model of the lunar landing site, the lunar module. The set construction included accurate representations of the contours of the surface and used materials with similar reflectivity as the lunar surface. They then positioned the LEM and astronaut models at the correct position and orientation, and a point light source at the proper orientation and azimuth that the sun was at at the moment the photos were taken. The shadows and light artifacts in the original images that are often sited by conspiracy adherents as "inconsistent" were in fact accurately duplicated in their scale model experiment.

http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing
 
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Aglet said:
Thinking about it now, that would have been an exceptional feat to accomplish with the technology of the time! So there's room for doubt.. and deception.
The different between the Apollo period and now is that cost and safety wasn't the highest priority during the cold war period... landing human on Moon first is.

Anyway, if the Moon landing is fake, USSR will sure know and make a joke out of it...

Have a nice day.
 
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Aglet said:
Has there been a good discussion on this topic on this site before?

If not, with all the expertise available here, it should be possible to have a very interesting one.

It is hard to have a "good" discussion on this topic as it is complete BS. The only interesting thing about it is how large numbers of people are not interested in real science, but will enjoyably gobble up the baloney.

Here are a few links that explain it all. Of course, if you believe in the conspiracy, then all the links in the world really won't matter, will they...

http://www.universetoday.com/99531/why-the-moon-landings-werent-faked-2/
http://www.universetoday.com/111188/how-do-we-know-the-moon-landing-isnt-fake/
http://lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/no-the-moon-landings-werent-faked-and-heres-how-you-can-tell/
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
 
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It's estimated that 500 million people watched the Apollo 11 landings live on TV. A lady in Australia saw a Coke bottle roll across the moon's surface. Nobody knows her name. If that doesn't prove a hoax, I don't know what would.

Here's the thing. The only people who see a hoax, inconsistencies etc, want to see those things. Some want to sell books on the topic. Others just want to feel smart, superior. The hoax feels good.

Did you know that Scientific American (The Magazine) wrote and article where they declare a hoax!? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-landing-faked-why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories/
It's actually a pretty good read, they talk about the physiology of why some people want to believe it.

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Oh and you have to check out all the hoax theories debunked in one place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories (be sure to read the 200+ scientific articles cited as support.)

Oh and don't forget the ton's of their party evidence (China Russia etc) that proves the moon landings were real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings
 
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brad-man

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Don Haines said:
and as has been posted before..... proof that it was faked because if you look carefully in the left hand corner of the picture, you can see a housecat...

I was wondering where my cat went! Lost him shortly before Apollo 11 lifted off. ;D

He went Hollywood...
 

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