Moon Landing

[RendeR]

If you notice closely this is not a single photograph, it was taken in three sections (the center area having a heavier shading than the outer two.

The cameras of the time couldn't take panoramic shots like this as one piece. So this image was pieced together from three shots at three seperate times, not necessarily within moments of one another.

That eliminates any corroboration of shadows altogether.

People that honesly think the moon landings were a hoax are seriously in need of something...not sure what would help..but something....

[MJ4H]

i think you are thinking of a brain, RendeR

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by RendeR

If you notice closely this is not a single photograph, it was taken in three sections (the center area having a heavier shading than the outer two.

The cameras of the time couldn't take panoramic shots like this as one piece. So this image was pieced together from three shots at three seperate times, not necessarily within moments of one another.

That eliminates any corroboration of shadows altogether.

People that honesly think the moon landings were a hoax are seriously in need of something...not sure what would help..but something....

I can't see any real evidence of it clearly being pieced toghether, but you could be right about that being the case. But really after considering that the camera wasn't pointed in the same direction as the photographer's shadow, I don't think you have to go so far as to say that the individual shots(if there were more than one) were taken at different times to reconcile the shadows. The sites linked above or from a Google search offer numerous examples of the effects of Terrain and perspective on shadows.

One of the sites I found on a Google search has some footage of one of these Hoax Believers interviewing Buzz Aldrin, who looked like he was in his seventies. Aldrin busted the guy right in the mouth when he asked if the moon landings were faked.

[21C]

I watched a TV show that set out to debunk a lot of the hoax arguments by setting up their own "moon set" ( I nearly didn't watch it at first since I thought it was promoting the whole hoax argument ).

They actually showed that a single light source, both on the set and in real life, doesn't always produce parallel shadows.

What's interesting to me is that the hoax supporters say that the shadows are not parallel because of the use of different light sources. I'm no expert on this but I would have thought that this would have produced multiple shadows of different "intensity" much like you would see at a football stadium.

I just went to find a picture to support this and found this interesting one instead.