Moonstruck….
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
39 years ago this week—the world held it’s collective breath as humans landed on the moon…
It was—just briefly—a unifying moment for this planet.
But in the nearly four decades since it happened—some reasonable—and some not so reasonable questions are being asked about what exactly DID we witness.
Let me start off by saying I’m not one of these conspiracy guys who think the moon landings were faked—and that we NEVER went to the moon.
There’s plenty of stuff we left behind on the Moon that’s visible.
In fact, as recently as this week, A Japanese space probe circling the Moon photographed the remains of the landing site of Apollo 15—details of which you can read here.
But there IS something WRONG with some of the photographs that were purported to have been taken on the Moon.
Here’s an example:
The sun is behind the Lunar Excursion Module. The LEM’s shadow is correct— but the side of the spacecraft facing the camera SHOULD also be in shadow… Instead—it’s fully illuminated.
The astronauts did NOT have flash cameras. So why is the front of the craft lit?
Besides oddities in the lighting—there’s obvious signs of manipulation of some images—manipulations that anyone these days can recognize if they play around with Photoshop.
This next clip examines the problems with lights and shadows in a very scientific way—as they call in image experts to explain the apparent discrepancies.
So— if we DID go to the Moon—why would NASA find it necessary to manipulate the photos?
Well, perhaps after spending billions of bucks to get there—they were NOT about to let their great achievement be marred by crappy looking, amateur type photos made by non-professionals which would have looked as bad as the average family snapshots.
A spectacular effort required spectacular photos.
So airbrushing, re-composition—and even insertion a a few “studio” shots would have seemed like the best way to present the achievement.
Of course, back then—they couldn’t have anticipated that with-in a few decades lots of people would have computers—and be able to not only analyze the pictures—but could duplicate he same photo effects.
Don’t forget—NASA wasn’t bound by any journalistic standards.
It was their show—and they’d present it the way they wanted it.
That’s my guess.
What’s yours?
—Steve
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