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9 thoughts on “Man on the moon?”

  1. This has been a theory of some “lunatics” ever since 1969.

    By the way, not only was the ladder photoshopped in, so was the stars in the background. With that bright foreground shot the camera’s aperture would be stopped down so much that no stars would be visible in the photograph.

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  2. I’m guessing the reflection in the helmet was photoshopped, too, since there’s no way the other astronaut could be doing whatever he’s doing and also take the picture.

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  3. I don’t believe the reflection was photoshopped. The shadow in the reflection is the astronaut in the picture, then you see the astronaut that is taking the picture’s reflection then some other crap in the background. All seems normal.

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  4. Oh…I mistook the shadow for part of the ship of something…my bad. Yeah, if the shadow’s that long in the reflection, then the spacial relationship of the other astronaut makes sense.

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  5. I remember watching it on tv when it happened… thought it was fake then as I do now… I mean really, think about it… a camera taking a picture with out a flash bulb (era of time thing)… back then the flash cube wasn’t even invented yet…wouldn’t there have be a flash reflecting on the helmet??? plus what’s the black shadow, a camera stand??? why would the guy in the back ground (astronut) be white, and not the camera/photographer???

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  6. There were flash bulbs for cameras back then. But how much flash do you need when you’re on the surface of the moon? A photographer can stand on Earth during a full moon and take a decent picture using only the reflected light from the moon and use no flash. The moon is fairly bright if you’re standing on the sunny side. This picture shows that it’s so bright that the sun is behind the subject and sunlight reflecting off the surface gives the photographer plenty of light. If the sun was shining directly on the front of the subject, the photo would show an extremely bright spacesuit like you see of the reflected images in the helmet.

    The black shadows that I see are from the subject astronaut. He has to cast a shadow somewhere in that direction.

    The only object that looks like an astronaut with a camera IS white.

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  7. your so wrong anonymous… I did not say they didn’t have flash bulbs… I was saying cameras at that time needed them… if what you said holds true about standing on earth, then the shutter will stay open to absorb enough light to take the image. Hence in obtaining an image from a camera stand, leaving the shutter open like that along with the earths rotating properties, the stars would be not a circle, but rather a line. So with saying that, with no flash on the moon his right shoulder would be much darker while his left shoulder is blurred due to the brightness factor.

    maybe with today’s technologies you can take images like this, but not with yesteryears technology, ASA… or light sensative film wouldn’t allow it…

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