Comments by "Kevin Skinner" (@kevinskinner4986) on "Today I Found Out"
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Just as a head's up, the hoax parallax analysis is sketchy as fuck. Aulis's article, which is written by a fictional "scientist" that doesn't actually exist with bogus credentials, by the way, uses formulae that are incompatible with the lens the camera used and manually flubs his photo editing until it matches the results he wants. This means, of course, that even if all of the math weren't automatically wrong, you can't reproduce his results.
The hoax video makers know that the diverging shadows is full of shit, by the way. That photograph of the rocks and the LEM American Moon uses? David Percy, one of the former big hoax video makers and owner of Aulis, got caught cropping that photograph twenty years ago because you could see the rocks in the lower right corner had shadows that changed direction to match the LEM in the background.
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First of all, the astronauts were asked TWO questions: whether the stars could be seen from the moon, and whether they could be seen through the solar corona despite the glare in reference to a set of photographs they took. Armstrong straight-up says the stars were NOT visible from the daytime side of the moon. The "can't recall" was in response to the solar corona.
The Earth would only look huge if you were teleported there and only in relation to the size the moon normally looks. The astronauts watched it slowly shrink smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller in the windows as they moved away from it. It would look TINY from the moon.
If you went around wasting pictures on the Earth and other things because they looked pretty, you'd probably get fired when you got back. The goal isn't to take pretty pictures. It's to take large numbers of pictures of the moon, the thing they are spending a fortune on so that they can be studied. They work for scientists, not Parks and Recreation. There's not a whole lot to be gained from pictures of the Earth from the moon. Any actual study would be done from cameras that are closer and capable of seeing better detail.
Besides, they already took dozens of pictures of the Earth, much larger, from the ship on the way there.
Also, by the way, the Earth sits in one place in the sky and doesn't move because of the tidal locking. That position is almost straight up from where they landed. You will never catch it in the background with the moon. Apollo 17 has a few shots of it where the camera operator gets bored of watching the astronauts and points the remote control camera on the rover towards it.
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