Post by Kiwi on Sept 9, 2009 9:25:52 GMT -4
New Zealand PC World
August 2009, page 6
One giant leap
Page eight of the July [sic - actually June] PC World featured a large photograph of the 1969 moon landing with the caption, "One giant leap."
The photo shown appears to be one that Hasselblad examined following NASA's use of the famous brand of cameras purportedly to document the moon landings in 1969.
[This is the famous one of Buzz Aldrin, AS11-40-5903. As usual in many magazines, at the top a small amount of black headroom has been added and it has been cropped on the left side to the large rock in the background, on the right side just outside the right column of fiducials, and at the bottom between the tip of the landing probe and the clear part-footprint above it.]
Hasseblad found that a great many of the photos purportedly showing the moon landings were faked. I would note that in the photo you used there's a shadow cast in the front of the astronaut indicating the light source from the sun behind the astronaut. However, the front of the astronaut's suit is also lit as with the reflection from the special goggles on the helmet indicating there is another light source in front of the astronaut. Hasselblad has great difficulty getting an explanation form [sic] NASA because there is only one sun in the solar system.
One other problem with the photo is that there are no stars in the background either.
How do I decide whether the moon landings happened forty years ago or not? The answer is in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding the earth. Nothing living on earth can survive going through the Van Allen radiation belts because the temperature is two thousand degrees. Solar flares increase that temperature by perhaps a thousand degrees.
I guess the moon landings never happened and no astronaut has ever gone back to the moon, or will anytime soon. The moon landings are one of the grossest lies force fed on the people.
Keith White, Waitakere
PC World Editor Ted Gibbons replies:
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, Hasselblad is celebrating by taking selected photographers on an expenses-paid trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
Recalling the history of its cameras in space Hasselblad said, 'In 1962, astronaut Walter Schirra took his Hasselblad on board the Mercury-Atlas 8 and took the first images of earth from space. Hasselblad followed NASA, on space flight after space flight, with Hasselblad cameras proving that they could meet the stringent demands made by extraterrestrial travel.
'And in 1969 when the world watched in awe as the Apollo 11 astronauts became the first men to set foot on the moon, those astronauts also carried Hasselblad cameras, capturing some of the most definitive images man has ever captured.'
Hasselblad CEO Christian Poulsen added, 'Obviously, lunar travel posed even more demanding challenges than shooting inside a space capsule, with extreme temperatures and dust... placing serious strains on equipment. Lunar photography leaves no margin for errors, no room for second chances...'
Hasselblad added, 'The research and development that was required to meet the challenges of space travel benefited not only extraterrestrial photographers, but even those with both feet firmly on the ground.The advancements gained during the space camera design process were implemented into the standard Hasselblad line as well.'
Read more here: tinyurl.com/nxuxtn
US TV show Mythbusters also has an excellent episode dedicated to the moon landings.
August 2009, page 6
One giant leap
Page eight of the July [sic - actually June] PC World featured a large photograph of the 1969 moon landing with the caption, "One giant leap."
The photo shown appears to be one that Hasselblad examined following NASA's use of the famous brand of cameras purportedly to document the moon landings in 1969.
[This is the famous one of Buzz Aldrin, AS11-40-5903. As usual in many magazines, at the top a small amount of black headroom has been added and it has been cropped on the left side to the large rock in the background, on the right side just outside the right column of fiducials, and at the bottom between the tip of the landing probe and the clear part-footprint above it.]
Hasseblad found that a great many of the photos purportedly showing the moon landings were faked. I would note that in the photo you used there's a shadow cast in the front of the astronaut indicating the light source from the sun behind the astronaut. However, the front of the astronaut's suit is also lit as with the reflection from the special goggles on the helmet indicating there is another light source in front of the astronaut. Hasselblad has great difficulty getting an explanation form [sic] NASA because there is only one sun in the solar system.
One other problem with the photo is that there are no stars in the background either.
How do I decide whether the moon landings happened forty years ago or not? The answer is in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding the earth. Nothing living on earth can survive going through the Van Allen radiation belts because the temperature is two thousand degrees. Solar flares increase that temperature by perhaps a thousand degrees.
I guess the moon landings never happened and no astronaut has ever gone back to the moon, or will anytime soon. The moon landings are one of the grossest lies force fed on the people.
Keith White, Waitakere
PC World Editor Ted Gibbons replies:
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, Hasselblad is celebrating by taking selected photographers on an expenses-paid trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
Recalling the history of its cameras in space Hasselblad said, 'In 1962, astronaut Walter Schirra took his Hasselblad on board the Mercury-Atlas 8 and took the first images of earth from space. Hasselblad followed NASA, on space flight after space flight, with Hasselblad cameras proving that they could meet the stringent demands made by extraterrestrial travel.
'And in 1969 when the world watched in awe as the Apollo 11 astronauts became the first men to set foot on the moon, those astronauts also carried Hasselblad cameras, capturing some of the most definitive images man has ever captured.'
Hasselblad CEO Christian Poulsen added, 'Obviously, lunar travel posed even more demanding challenges than shooting inside a space capsule, with extreme temperatures and dust... placing serious strains on equipment. Lunar photography leaves no margin for errors, no room for second chances...'
Hasselblad added, 'The research and development that was required to meet the challenges of space travel benefited not only extraterrestrial photographers, but even those with both feet firmly on the ground.The advancements gained during the space camera design process were implemented into the standard Hasselblad line as well.'
Read more here: tinyurl.com/nxuxtn
US TV show Mythbusters also has an excellent episode dedicated to the moon landings.
I actually thought Keith White was cracking a clever, bizarre joke until I got to his last sentence.
A temperature of 2000 to 3000 degrees in the Van Allen Belts.
Has anyone heard that before? Wouldn't they be glowing and putting on a light show for us?[Fixed typo.]
