What’s
wrong with this picture? (This should be
the last time I make fun of McKayla.)
[Sorry, the picture of McKayla standing next to Darth Vader did not have copyright clearance.]
Answer: You would not be able to see the stars to the
right of Darth’s head. I don’t know how
many scenes in movies or books have the stars visible through the window of
a brightly-lit spacecraft or living room, which would be silly. It’s called internal reflection, and unless
you get right up close to the window, so your own body is blocking the internal
light source, the dim stars outside will simply not show.
NASA
Neil
Armstrong
On
a different but related note, a few intelligent and a great many uninformed people
think the moon landings were a hoax.
This is an offense to true science, especially as we mark the passing
away of Neil Armstrong.
One
of the complaints is that the shots of the astronauts on the moon often do not
show stars in the black sky, therefore they are fake. Well, if they were fakes, don’t you think
they would have put stars in?
The
cameras had to be adjusted for the brightness of the spacesuits and the
regolith (the substance of the moon’s soil).
Otherwise, all the shots would have been blurry, overexposed
smudges. So the cameras did not pick up
the faint stars in the background.
Nice post! Yep, it's crazy what some people think of as conspiracy theories :)
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