I have a question for you...have you ever watched that documentary American Moon?
Is it worth the watch? I'm not a fan of videos in the slightest, but I wouldn't mind your opinion on it, especially because they somewhat distance themselves from "flat-Earthers" right at the outset.
Yes it's worth the watch. A bit long for one sitting but you can split it into sections. The highlights are the his tackling of historical context at the start where he establishes the reasons why NASA would almost be compelled to fake the missions if they could not do them for real. He also makes a convincing argument for why the Russians would play along. He does some good research.
And then section at the end where he presents the photos to various professional photographers who have never before studied the images with the intention of seeing if they were real or not.
The director's story is he was a big fan of the moon landings when young and had some big poster of one image in his room. He became a professional photographer himself and later rediscovered his poster and noticed hotspots and light fall-off that he was by then familiar with in studio photography with artificial light source.
And btw that is one thing that has never sat well with me. Russia. Sure...terrible terrible enemies, yet we can collaborate with them on some things and everything is hugs and smiles.
When my dad was in the army (intelligence), he said he rather frequently ran into both Russian and Mossad operatives. Like, height of the Cold War. And he would go up to them and joke around with them.
And then, back in the future, we found out that there were some nice digs right outside both DC and Annapolis, MD that housed Russian operatives (one had pools and tennis courts and stuff like that). And one of them was directly across the water from Gibson Island, where the elite plan much of their shenanigans.
I have a question for you...have you ever watched that documentary American Moon?
Is it worth the watch? I'm not a fan of videos in the slightest, but I wouldn't mind your opinion on it, especially because they somewhat distance themselves from "flat-Earthers" right at the outset.
Yes it's worth the watch. A bit long for one sitting but you can split it into sections. The highlights are the his tackling of historical context at the start where he establishes the reasons why NASA would almost be compelled to fake the missions if they could not do them for real. He also makes a convincing argument for why the Russians would play along. He does some good research.
And then section at the end where he presents the photos to various professional photographers who have never before studied the images with the intention of seeing if they were real or not.
The director's story is he was a big fan of the moon landings when young and had some big poster of one image in his room. He became a professional photographer himself and later rediscovered his poster and noticed hotspots and light fall-off that he was by then familiar with in studio photography with artificial light source.
Thanks, I will give it a watch.
And btw that is one thing that has never sat well with me. Russia. Sure...terrible terrible enemies, yet we can collaborate with them on some things and everything is hugs and smiles.
When my dad was in the army (intelligence), he said he rather frequently ran into both Russian and Mossad operatives. Like, height of the Cold War. And he would go up to them and joke around with them.
And then, back in the future, we found out that there were some nice digs right outside both DC and Annapolis, MD that housed Russian operatives (one had pools and tennis courts and stuff like that). And one of them was directly across the water from Gibson Island, where the elite plan much of their shenanigans.
Russia to me was always the real paper tiger.