Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:52 am
stessier wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:07 am
Jaymann wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 5:20 pm
Here is the best, most comprehensive documentary I have seen on evidence that the moon landings were faked. It's 3 hours long, but trashes all the debunking arguments, including Mythbusters. Feel free to dismiss out of hand, but if you actually watch it you might find that difficult to do. Also find it interesting that YouTube made it difficult to find even though they are awash with flat earth garbage.
Is
your position that the landings were faked?
My position was summed up by Collins:
"I don't remember seeing any stars."
I just got a new computer with an RTX 3060 Ti, so I decided to search for some NVIDIA RTX Demos. I came across this one
for the Apollo 11 photos of Buzz Aldrin coming out of the LEM
Interestingly enough, it comes with a readme.txt file that has some conspiracy theory claims about the original photo:
1. Buzz Aldrin is much brighter than the moon in the shadow of the lunar lander
2. No stars visible in any of the shots and astronauts cannot recall seeing any stars
3. Looks like Buzz is being lit by multiple light sources and there is even a bright blob in one of the videos. Stage lighting?
For each of these the readme file explains how to play with the lighting settings. On basic lighting, with direct ray tracing and no reflected light modeling, Buzz is definitely dark. For indirect lighting modeling with NVIDIA VXGI it shows Aldrin getting lit up by light rays bouncing off the lunar surface AND from Neil Armstrong's suit. In fact, there's a button to remove Neil and his suit from the scene and it clearly shows the effect of sunlight bouncing off his suit and lighting up Buzz.
In addition, there's an exposure slider and if you turn it all the way to the right you'll see that stars can be seen, but it overexposes all of the lunar surface, Buzz, and the LEM. So there is no way to capture both starlight and the surface; there's just too much sunlight bouncing all over the place. And finally, playing with the exposure I was able to see that the bright blob in the video is actually the overexposure of Neil's suit - since he was already outside with the camera to capture Buzz's descent from the LEM, and he was positioned right where he would have been to capture the angle of Buzz as he was exiting the LEM.