I just watched yet another intriguing documentary. This one is about the 1st lunar landing on the Moon in 1969(Apollo 11) where the USA supposedly landed 3 men on the Moon and subsequent Apollo missions. Note: I used the word ‘supposedly’.
Yes. This documentary debuts the fact that NASA landed people on the Moon in the mission Apollo 11 and questions whether men really landed on the moon. Whoa, you might say. How can that be? You mean we never did land on the moon?
Well, I can’t say anything for that. You could watch the video, but in the end, judge for yourself. Do you think men really landed on the moon in 1969?

There are much evidences provided in the documentary, titled “Did We Land on The Moon?” It was released by Fox TV in 2001.

The only evidences I am going to comment on are the photography evidences presented by the hoax theorists. Of course =]
You can catch the rest of the evidence if you watch this documentary. Its all quite intriguing.

One evidence proposed by the hoax theorists was that there were no stars in the photos which showed the space. I must say that light from stars are extremely weak and faint so it is highly unlikely that there will be much light from the stars captured in the photos. It’s the reason why the sun light up the Earth but the stars just twinkle. Given the circumstances they were in, its pretty reasonable that there were no stars seen in the photo.

But here comes the other evidences. There were some situations where the astronauts were standing in the shadow of the space shuttle, yet they were not in shadow. That is, the astronauts were lit while standing in a shadow, as if there was a spotlight on them. Unless Physics doesn’t work the same way on the Moon, I would say that this is virtually impossible. Its like standing in the shade, brightly lit with no other light sources.

Another evidence was that the features of the subjects were not thrown into shadow even though the light source was a backlight. Every detail of the subject from the front view was clear, bright and distinct, although it was a backlight shining on them(supposedly the Sun). There was no other light source, so how can they be so well lighted up?
One can argue that the exposure was compensated for by the camera and thus the subjects were brightened up. But look, we are talking 1960s technology here.
Even if that was the case, the details of all the other parts of the photo would have been completely whitewashed. Yet, the other parts of the photo looked normal. Questionable, huh?

The last evidence I will comment about are on the shadows of the astronauts while they were on the Moon.
The shadows were in different directions and different lengths, suggesting that there could have been more than one light source, and that would not be possible, since the only light source is the Sun.
Let’s correct that statement. It is possible for shadows to be in different directions with only one light source, provided that the light source was very close, like as close as props to a lamp, which is the light source, in a studio.

Other than that, the shadows of objects would be in nearly the same direction for a distant light source, like how our own shadows are all cast in the same direction when the Sun is shining down on us. But in the documentary, the shadows were nearly perpendicular to each other. We are talking perpendicular here. That can be explained either by that the whole moon landing was done in a studio, or the Sun was next to them.

Nasa argued that the cause for the different lengths in the shadow was due to the different height levels that the astronauts were standing on. True, different height levels will result in different shadow lengths. But for a distant light source, the difference is less obvious while for a close-up light source, the difference is pretty obvious. In NASA’s own videos and photos, the astronauts were standing about 20 or 30cm difference in height with a very prominent difference in their shadow lengths. Other than that, the height level theory cannot explain the difference in the direction of the shadows. You can try it out at home if you doubt this. Try holding a torchlight or lamp and shine it at objects from far away and from close-up. Observe the shadows. Place your subjects at different heights. Try different distances. You will get what I mean.

That’s about it then. If you are interested in watching this video, I do have a copy of the video. Its 437mb so I won’t be sending it to anyone through e-mail or over Msn. If you want it, just pass me a thumbdrive or a CD-R and I can give you a copy. Otherwise, its available on Google Video, but much lower resolution. The title of this documentary is “Did We Land on The Moon?”

So, did we?



One point to note:
I know that recently many of us have been having problems blogging because our blogger dashboard and "Create Post" section has gone haywire. Other than that, an error message keeps appearing all the time such that we can't do a thing. I have been having that problem too.

Solution: On your url bar, change www.blogger.com to www2.blogger.com. It will solve the problem. That's all then =))

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