Always like some good laughs !
I laughed when rabinoz made a great post and you ran away crying.
Ahhh the real blue marble picture......i confess i cried a bit......
That people in our days and age still believe the official stories like astronauts not really wanting to take a picture, but couldn't resist when observing our beautifull home during that mission.
I think that is about the only believable aspect of the intire moon missions !!!!
Namely that when you see our earth in all it's beauty,....fuck the protocol, the tight schedules and take truckloads of pictures with your Hasselblad.
Now take a long deep breath and read the above a couple of times !!
dumdidumdidumdidumdidum.....done it ?
But when the astronauts were on the moon, this eager to photograph or film a moving earth was absent.
All about the flag, the lunar module and Buzz.
We are presented with very few photographs that have ''earth'' in the background (albite clearly photoshopped in most of them).
The fact that the apollo 11 astronauts did not consider this part of their task is telling , contrary to the logic involved in the ''blue marble picture'' (couldn't resist to take a photograph despite other duties) this logic was fully absent during the hours they walked on the moon.
Stick to the protocol, don't gaze upwards, only shoot the LM, rover and flag......resist, resist, resist earth in the sky.
Any sane person could not resist to at least shoot a full magazine to capture earth instead of capturing a flag, rover and module from various angles.
And yes it gives me tears that addults over here defend such a position of lunacy and insanity to keep the Apollo fairytale alive..
Where are my napkins.....sorry it is a bit to much at times......
I don't understand how you can be so opinionated about something you know so little about.
- The "Blue Marble" photo was from Apollo 17, not 11.
- Their "duties" during the trip there and back were fairly limited. The schedule was extremely tight during their surface time.
- Proving the Earth is round was not one of their mission objectives, so there were no specific tasks allocated to that.
- Despite that, there were photos taken of the Earth both from the CSM and the Lunar surface, as well as a significant video segment from at least the Apollo 17 mission.
- Photographing their equipment was a mission objective, especially for the earlier missions, as they needed as much data as possible to identify any potential issues for future missions. Despite copious testing on Earth, in orbit, and in lunar orbit, the first landings were still pioneering and no one was arrogant enough to assume that there was no possibility of error.
- The lunar rover was not a piece of equipment to be photographed until they brought one for Apollo 15, 16, and 17.
Dutchy, I don't think you're a stupid person by any stretch. But you are woefully, and willfully, ignorant if you have accepted other people's claims of Apollo being a hoax without researching yourself and knowing these simple facts. I am far from an expert, but I have read astronaut biographies, books and articles from mission controllers, and works of non-fiction from people who are experts. I've met and spoken with Gerry Griffin, one of the Flight Directors during Apollo and Jack Schmidt, one of the Apollo 17 astronauts. Apollo was, by leaps and bounds, the most impressive accomplishment in human history, and you do the people involved, and yourself, a huge disservice to deny the grandeur of its truth because you are simply to lazy to investigate it thoroughly on your own. Stop listening to the conspiracists, who have nothing to offer but hypotheticals, rife with error, contradiction, and ignorance. Don't even listen to me, or people like me. Read about it from the people who were there, and the people who have spent a lifetime gathering and presenting all of the information for those of us who couldn't be a part of it personally.