A few days ago, all the rage in MSM (Fox News, Newsweek, Mirror, and others… ) was NASA photograph from Apollo 17 mission showing a man without a space suit in the reflection of Eugene Cernen's helmet. I was really surprised when Steemit stayed silent. Did I miss a great discussion about the fake Moon landing? Blame it on a terrible search capabilities of our favorite platform…
The photo in question is taken from the Apollo 17 mission, which took place in late 1972. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt allegedly spent about 22 hours “on the Moon”, and the photo can be seen below or at NASA history site..
A guy with the YouTube account Streetcap1 shared his discovery asking a question: “Does Astronaut's visor reflection show a stagehand on the Apollo fake Moon set?”
You see how big is that life support backpack? Problem — not a sign of it in the visor reflection! NASA did not denied it is the original photo. It's still there at their site.
And the best refutal of “counterconspiracists” I have found, was a tweet by a certain Jason Major, who himself got a disclaimer: “I am not a scientist, nor do I work for NASA.”
That was an easy dismissal. Nothing to see here, go away. Well, not so fast…
Let's get a bit of photo analysis. This photo was taken with a Hasselblad 500EL/M, and Carl Zeiss Distagon 50mm, f4 (60 degrees view angle) lens, just like this one:
Distagon 50mm on Hasselblad gives 60° angle of view (which corresponds to approximately 31mm in Leica M film format, or 20mm in digital APSC format). And, since we see all the reseau plate grid markings, this photo is full format from the negative, ie. no crop.
Now, let's give some benefit of the doubt to the “counterconspiracists”, or “believers”, and let's just say it is an optical illusion that we can't see that huge life support backpack, and let's imagine it is Jack Schmitt, who allegedly took this photo. Well, who else could be — it was not a train station — there should be only two of them over there. Look at the orientation of “Jack Schmitt” in the reflection — he has turned his back to the Sun, which is the only source of light, right? Now look at the orientation of Eugene Cernan — he is also turned his back to the Sun, and his shadow also goes in front of him. That means both men were standing parallel to each other with their cameras fixed to their chest plate.
Being a moderately wide, Distagon lens does have some degree of distortion off centre:
Source: Example photos by Ken Rockwell
The “Moon photo” was perfectly aligned, as the markings from the reseau plate grid show, and absolutely none distortion on Cernan. Which means if “Jack Schmitt” would want to take this photo, he ought to stand perfectly perpendicular towards Cernan, and it would be impossible to do so if he was standing parallel to him! So…
OK, and now finishing point: I want to believe. I have believed as long as I could find some “explanations”. Can someone provide plausible explanation how “Jack Schmitt” could take this photo?
But that's not all, folks!
In an interview to “Daily Mail” from the December 7th 2012, Eugene Cernan says that he left his camera on the Moon…
Now, he admits leaving his camera may have been a mistake.
'I left my Hasselblad camera there with the lens pointing up at the zenith, the idea being someday someone would come back and find out how much deterioration solar cosmic radiation had on the glass.
'So, going up the ladder, I never took a photo of my last footstep. How dumb!
'Wouldn’t it have been better to take the camera with me, get the shot, take the film pack off and then (for weight restrictions) throw the camera away?'
What? Say again? He left the camera AND the film?!?
Can you imagine a specially trained astronaut, who is in a life adventure on the Moon, taking at least 200 UNIQUE photos that could be legacy to all mankind, and then leaves that whole, easily detachable film pack behind?
Read whole article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2244519/Apollo-17-Commander-reveals-camera-abandoned-Moon-admits-hoped-returned-now.html#ixzz4zCnfYScA
Yeah, OK, “Daily Mail” is lying MSM, Cernan is old and senile, but the camera and film are gone, and you can't escape the question: is he a liar or an idiot?
