Rory
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I was hoping to find an explanation of the "black square around the Earth" so-called 'proof' the Flat Earthers put out.
(from 3:00 - if want to tell me how to embed to a specific time go right ahead )
Basically, he takes a photo of the Earth taken from a moon mission, zooms in, plays with the photoshop filters, and gets a "black square" around the Earth:
I've read that official modern images of Earth are often placed on black backgrounds - Blue Marble II, for example - but wonder what the explanation for this one is, given it was taken with film?
I downloaded a 3000x3003 copy of it from NASA and did the same thing in photoshop. Didn't get as much of a square - but did turn up what look suspiciously like stars!
[GALLERY=media, 31]Harrison Schmitt on the moon[/GALLERY] [GALLERY=media, 32]close up[/GALLERY]
Is it perhaps a case that what I'm seeing in my image is expected, and what he's seeing in his is perhaps as a result of using a lower quality image? And I wonder if those 'stars' would line up with a map? ;-)
(from 3:00 - if want to tell me how to embed to a specific time go right ahead )
Basically, he takes a photo of the Earth taken from a moon mission, zooms in, plays with the photoshop filters, and gets a "black square" around the Earth:
I've read that official modern images of Earth are often placed on black backgrounds - Blue Marble II, for example - but wonder what the explanation for this one is, given it was taken with film?
I downloaded a 3000x3003 copy of it from NASA and did the same thing in photoshop. Didn't get as much of a square - but did turn up what look suspiciously like stars!
[GALLERY=media, 31]Harrison Schmitt on the moon[/GALLERY] [GALLERY=media, 32]close up[/GALLERY]
Is it perhaps a case that what I'm seeing in my image is expected, and what he's seeing in his is perhaps as a result of using a lower quality image? And I wonder if those 'stars' would line up with a map? ;-)
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