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Old 12-12-2017, 11:45 AM
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as an ex-photographer I never had issue with moon landing stuff, exposure and focus is easy and people forget the astronauts were in full bright sunlight and of course developing film you have leeway to adjust exposure anyway. these weren't cheap canon camera with basic kit lenses and everyone who buys those seem to think they suddenly know all about photography and they still cant take a single good photo but have thousands of pics. Usually photographers can preset their cameras for where they are taking photos and can shoot from any angle without need for using a viewfinder of any sort plus you only ever see the good photos and often cropped , using the body as a tripod to aim and steady a camera is common practice from way back, people now are too lazy and dependant and impatient to comprehend people can take photos themselves and without relying on the camera to work out everything itself. Plus some think a camera is a part of a phone too and dont understand a camera is a damn camera!

The only argument that gave me pause for thought was the flag waving therefore there was air and wind argument. I had never thought anything about moon landings may be fake and I'd never thought much about the flag. I assumed it was starched or something to hang nicely. but the hoaxers made me think and its such a great example of newtons laws, of course the flag will move in a vacuum since the astronauts touched it, might have made a good experiment these days to have a video camera watching while someone straightens the flag and releases it and watch until it presumably comes to a rest (friction and stiffness of fibres I assume will absorb the energy very slowly over a long period of time.

They thing that always does my head in is the feather and hammer drop test. Our earth-centric view of reality makes it hard to think through. I keep thinking about what the curvature of spacetime around the hammer would do, pull the moon towards it too and therefore it should hit faster than the feather. Should the feather fall towards the hammer?

Yes, Man went to the moon, no doubt about it.

Yes the earth is flat, otherwise it wouldn't fit on a map
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