NASA-FAKES-IT
01-01-2004, 22:41
NASA FAKES IT ONE MORE TIME.
The first photo below was taken by Don Pettit and is of the aurora from the International Space Station (somewhere over Canada early 2002).
The second photo is of an Apollo 11 astronaut on the "lunar surface".
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/space-aurora-iss.jpg
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/as11-40-5943-crop.jpg
NASA gave the Don Pettit photo wide distribution, apparently unaware of its implications. However, the public soon pointed out that this photo provided evidence that quite clearly contradicted a well known piece of NASA propaganda.
In the first photo we have a photo of the Earth bathed in bright sunlight, we have the green glow of the aurora and hundreds of stars in the blackness of space. Since the photo was taken from the International Space Station there is no atmosphere to impede our vision of these stars.
In the second photo we have a photo of the Moon bathed in dull sunlight and we have the blackness of space without a single star to be seen. Since the photo was taken from the lunar surface there is no atmosphere to impede our vision of the stars.
So why do we see stars in the first photo, but not in the second photo?
The reason given by NASA for the absence of stars from all photos taken during the moon landings, is that the lunar surface was so bright that it drowned out the relatively dull starlight, much like the earths atmosphere drowns out the stars during the day. If you don't give the matter much thought, you might buy into this explanation, but a moments reflection reveals that it has a fatal flaw. What if you directed your gaze, or your camera, away from the lunar surface and directly into the blackness of space (so that you, or your camera, can only see the blackness of space and nothing else). Now you have no light at all from the lunar surface to drown out the stars, in fact, since the moon has no atmosphere there is nothing obscuring your, or your cameras, view of the stars and NASA's explanation clearly fails.
On reflection it is clear that NASA's argument is silly, however, many people have accepted it. Now, if these same people were to be given a photo showing stars in a situation similar to that of the moon landings (just like the first photo above) they would be forced to question, and possibly reject, NASA's explanation.
This possibility sent shivers down many peoples spines and it was decided that the original photo of the aurora above, would have to be doctored to try and make its connection to the faked moon landings less obvious. What happened was that original photo was horizontally and vertically inverted (for some reason or other) and then blurred in order to fade out the hundreds of stars.
The new inverted and blurred version of the original can be found at http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/small/ISS006/ISS006-E-18372.JPG.
In order to compare the two I have horizontally and vertically inverted the original and placed it immediately below NASA's doctored version.
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/iss006-e-18372.jpg
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/aurora-iss-invert.jpg
As you can see the blurring of the original has been quite successful in fading out the stars. NASA fakes it one more time.
Below is a photo of Don Pettit taking photos from the International Space Station
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/don-pettit.jpg
By the way, the reason that we cannot see the stars on Earth in the daytime is because the atmosphere reflects light back into your eyes and this light drowns out the light from the stars. If the earth had no atmosphere you would see stars both during the day and the night.
The first photo below was taken by Don Pettit and is of the aurora from the International Space Station (somewhere over Canada early 2002).
The second photo is of an Apollo 11 astronaut on the "lunar surface".
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/space-aurora-iss.jpg
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/as11-40-5943-crop.jpg
NASA gave the Don Pettit photo wide distribution, apparently unaware of its implications. However, the public soon pointed out that this photo provided evidence that quite clearly contradicted a well known piece of NASA propaganda.
In the first photo we have a photo of the Earth bathed in bright sunlight, we have the green glow of the aurora and hundreds of stars in the blackness of space. Since the photo was taken from the International Space Station there is no atmosphere to impede our vision of these stars.
In the second photo we have a photo of the Moon bathed in dull sunlight and we have the blackness of space without a single star to be seen. Since the photo was taken from the lunar surface there is no atmosphere to impede our vision of the stars.
So why do we see stars in the first photo, but not in the second photo?
The reason given by NASA for the absence of stars from all photos taken during the moon landings, is that the lunar surface was so bright that it drowned out the relatively dull starlight, much like the earths atmosphere drowns out the stars during the day. If you don't give the matter much thought, you might buy into this explanation, but a moments reflection reveals that it has a fatal flaw. What if you directed your gaze, or your camera, away from the lunar surface and directly into the blackness of space (so that you, or your camera, can only see the blackness of space and nothing else). Now you have no light at all from the lunar surface to drown out the stars, in fact, since the moon has no atmosphere there is nothing obscuring your, or your cameras, view of the stars and NASA's explanation clearly fails.
On reflection it is clear that NASA's argument is silly, however, many people have accepted it. Now, if these same people were to be given a photo showing stars in a situation similar to that of the moon landings (just like the first photo above) they would be forced to question, and possibly reject, NASA's explanation.
This possibility sent shivers down many peoples spines and it was decided that the original photo of the aurora above, would have to be doctored to try and make its connection to the faked moon landings less obvious. What happened was that original photo was horizontally and vertically inverted (for some reason or other) and then blurred in order to fade out the hundreds of stars.
The new inverted and blurred version of the original can be found at http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/small/ISS006/ISS006-E-18372.JPG.
In order to compare the two I have horizontally and vertically inverted the original and placed it immediately below NASA's doctored version.
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/iss006-e-18372.jpg
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/aurora-iss-invert.jpg
As you can see the blurring of the original has been quite successful in fading out the stars. NASA fakes it one more time.
Below is a photo of Don Pettit taking photos from the International Space Station
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/don-pettit.jpg
By the way, the reason that we cannot see the stars on Earth in the daytime is because the atmosphere reflects light back into your eyes and this light drowns out the light from the stars. If the earth had no atmosphere you would see stars both during the day and the night.