h/t CW
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| Apollo XII LEM pilot Alan Bean. November 20, 1969. Photo by Mission Cdr Pete Conrad, Oceanus Procellarum Base |
CW, at his daily timewaster blog, provides a daily dose of fascinating and interesting photographs on an eclectic and universal range of subjects. They're occasionally brilliant finds, and always worth a look (his Friday Open Road collections are particularly enjoyable). But continuing yesterday's rant about Village Idiots, the ceaseless Fucktardariat of the internet can't help itself in commenting far beyond their grade level, even on simple photographs, and as usual, the best worst offenders are the Happily Anonymous, as this exemplar from the head of his pledge class demonstrates:
AnonymousSeptember 27, 2023 at 6:52 AMAlso reflected along the top of Bean's visor is a row of Klieg lights providing the background lighting effects.
My reply, which the bloghost has elected to remove:
"Riiiiight, soopergenius.
Couldn't possibly be a laminated curved multi-layered helmet visor to prevent getting fried from heat or radiation with no protective atmosphere and outside temps of >250° F. on the moon's surface.
Also, if anyone were using "a row of klieg lights" visible in a visor at close range, they'd create a commensurate row of multiple shadows, obvious even to Stevie Wonder, which would totally discount the possibility that it was lit by a single incredibly bright light source 93,000,000 miles away, measuring 864,000 miles in diameter (a paltry 400x larger than the Moon). {BTW, if anyone was stupidly trying to replicate that with multiple basic stage lights, they'd be smart enough to cluster them, horizontally and vertically, as close together as possible, then place a giant diffusion filter in front of them to create a single glowing light source, and get rid of the 9 shadows your clueless explanation would create. As if they were simultaneously too stupid to notice the exact artifact you just did, and airbursh it out with 1969 technology commonly available in Playboy.}
But what do I know? I've only worked on hundreds of film and TV sets, and seen that multiple shadow effect happen for real as many times.
I'll take "People Who Flunked Basic Gradeschool Physics" for $500, Alex.
Please, take the cleats out of yer junk, tie a tourniquet around your weenie, go back to 4th grade science class, and pay attention this time, especially when they explain light and shadows, and the relative sizes of the sun and the moon.🙄
But thank you for staying Anonymous.
Don't make me make a post out of you."
Too late; I couldn't help myself.
And, for the hardcore fucktards, NASA did a flyby in 2011 with high-res photography of all six Apollo landing sites:
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| Apollo XII landing site, Sea Of Storms |
FFS, you shit-for-brains assclowns, you can see their goddamned footprints in the lunar soil, 42 years later!
This aside from the fact that Apollos 11, 14, and 15 each deployed laser reflectors on the lunar surface, enabling scientists and astronomers on earth to bounce a laser beam off the lunar surface, and use the speed of light and a pocket calculator to determine the exact distance to those points on the lunar surface, because someone set those laser reflectors in place - in person - from 1969-1971.
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| Lunar Laser Reflector, Tranquility Base, July 1969 |
All this happy horseshit never cropped up until the release, in 1978, of the godawful piece of cinematic shit, Capricorn One, and for which cinematic crime against humanity - despite his other work - director Peter Hyams should have been punched right in the dick for between seven and ten years, daily.
Before that monstrous piece of feces was foisted on a gullible and largely witless public, no one uttered the risible speculation that the moon landings were anything but legitimate as given.
Since five seconds after that film to the present day, no one with a middling or lower IQ can conceive of the fact that that they were anything but an enormous con, despite literal mountains of evidence and the overwhelming tsunami of common sense piled up to the contrary. This general idiocy has served to provide people like Art Bell and George Noory employment, food, and rent money for decades on late night radio, which, along with reality talk shows in the daytime has substituted in modern society for what we used to consign solely to mental institutions and circus sideshows.
You can judge whether a person has an IQ over 80 or below it, using the Capricorn One Test, to within an accuracy error of less than 1%:
Did America land men on the moon? Yes. Over 80 IQ, every single time.
Did America land men on the moon? No. Moron, every single time.
