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"prosaic mundaneties" gotta be my favourite
Prior to their missions, when the Apollo astronauts were being trained on the "Presumption of Naturality" rulebook they had to follow, they were taught a specific series of descriptive techniques that would allow them to appear to be providing in-depth observations of the sights they were seeing while ensuring that they were still adhering to the strict tenets of the Dead Moon Dictum. The primary visual observation technique the astronauts were taught was known simply as "Least Astonishment".
Probably the very best basic description I have ever heard to explain the concept of "Least Astonishment" and how it was applied to the Apollo cover-story visual self-censorship training techniques comes directly from one of the Apollo astronauts - a guy that literally everyone has heard of, Neil A. Armstrong (Obviously, there is no need to run through this man's CV). Here is how Armstrong, in his authorized biography published in 2005, briefly described how the Apollo crews were trained to follow the principles of "Least Astonishment" during the Apollo missions.
"The geologists had a wonderful theory they called the “Theory of Least Astonishment”. According to the theory, when you ran into a particular rock formation, you hypothesized how it might have occurred and created as many theories as you could think of as to how it might have gotten there. But the scenario that was least astonishing was the one you were supposed to accept as the basis for further analysis. I found that fascinating. It was an approach to logic that I had never experienced in engineering."
Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by JimOberg
my eyes are wide open and i see NASA is a big bag of lies and deception
for starters here's a good example...
Originally posted by Exuberant1
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Have you tried with other similiar films?
If you could obtain a good frame and a frame from a curled real, you would be able to demonstrate the effects and we could all make our observations.
This is from an old 16mm print of an episode of "My three sons".
I have attempted to restore the color in the film.
On the left you can see the restored film and on the right you can see the original film.
Let me know what you think of this work
Originally posted by easynow
thanks for the video but i am afraid that isn't a example of film curl causing anything. the likely explanation for the difference seen in the grill would be from the process of re-colorizing the footage. sorry but thanks for at least making an attempt
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to be forewarned is to be forearmed and at the end of the day it's up to you to decide what is the truth
Originally posted by ArMaP
I looked at all the "image density measuring panel" images from one of those videos in the Internet Archive, and the area that is free of blurring is not always the centre of the frame, as you can see in the video below, in some cases its very assymetric.
the area that is free of blurring is not always the centre of the frame
Oh come on - he clearly touched the flag!
Even if he didn't, the flag clearly moved because of the venting of his PLSS pack.
the impact of the 350 pound astronaut on the lunar surface only a few feet away
solar winds were one of the factors. Clearly.
4 plausible explanations - five minutes.
Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by Exuberant1
4 plausible explanations - five minutes.
is that the best you can do ?
My source is this page in the Internet Archive.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
What's your source and are you sure those are 16mm films and not videos?