My attempt at a debunking website...

[BertL]

So, I'm kind of trying to get off my 'obsession' with the moon hoax, and decided to make a debunk website on it. I'd love you all to check it out and give comments.

www.geocities.com/bertlproductions/moonhoax/

Basically I'm focusing on photographic stuff, as that's the easiest. Oh - making this website only made it worse.

PS I hate Geocities and am terribly sorry for putting it up there.

[Jason Thompson]

Just had a quick look, and it seems fairly concise. Just one point:

In your Shadows part 1 section you provide the photograph of the two astronauts with the flag having different length shadows. You pre-empt anyone claiming it was faked because it shows both astronauts by saying it was taken remotely from Houston, but this is not the case.

The picture is from Apollo 11, and it is a still from the Data Acquisition Camera. This was a 16mm film camera that, during the EVA, was mounted in the window and set to run at 1 frame per second. This is the same camera that was used to film the landing and ascent out of the LM window. It was operated by the astronauts, but all they had to do was set the speed and press start. In fact, in the EVA TV fotage you can hear Aldrin say he is setting up the DAC to run at 1 frame per second before he joins Armstrong on the surface.

Now while that point doesn't alter the substance of the argument, it would be as well to avoid as many errors as possible lest you get some HB harping on about how your website and NASA's disagree so someone must be lying....

[BertL]

jasonthompson said:

Just had a quick look, and it seems fairly concise.

Well, this is just the 'beta' version. The site's not done yet.

jasonthompson said:

The picture is from Apollo 11, and it is a still from the Data Acquisition Camera. This was a 16mm film camera that, during the EVA, was mounted in the window and set to run at 1 frame per second. This is the same camera that was used to film the landing and ascent out of the LM window. It was operated by the astronauts, but all they had to do was set the speed and press start. In fact, in the EVA TV fotage you can hear Aldrin say he is setting up the DAC to run at 1 frame per second before he joins Armstrong on the surface.

Hmm, I'll change it into 'programmed to take the pictures' or something like that.

[JayUtah]

It's really not that difficult. A data-acquisition camera (DAC) has a knob on it that lets you set the frame rate. Instead of the normal 24 fps you can set it for, say, 200 fps to capture the details of a stage separation. Or you can set it for 6 fps to capture a lengthy docking procedure, or for 1 fps for a lunar EVA. In that mode it's more like a still camera going off automatically every second. But in more abstract terms it's just a motion picture camera going normally, but at a very slow speed.

[Kiwi]

bertls said:

Hmm, I'll change it into 'programmed to take the pictures' or something like that.

No. It was a fully manual camera and had no facility for any programming at all. It was "set," just as I set the browning knob on my toaster, or the depth of cut on my hairclippers. Don't use modern language that could confuse your reader. Stick to the facts.

[Joe Durnavich]

It would be easier for Jay to act like me, I guess, but I don't think he would want to sink to my level.

I bet Jay would love to act like you....as long as the script was good and a producer hired him for the part.

[LunarOrbit]

joedurnavich said:

It would be easier for Jay to act like me, I guess, but I don't think he would want to sink to my level.

I bet Jay would love to act like you....as long as the script was good and a producer hired him for the part.

Hmmm... shouldn't that reply be in this thread?

[Joe Durnavich]

I'm sure my reply started out over in that thread, but it wandered off to another thread once it took a look around.