by StarmanSkye » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:37 pm
No prob;<br><br>I found the following description of the special film in about 30 seconds via google -- it was the first one that dealt with the special design specs of the film -- more detailed descriptions are available. This site holds that while the Moon Landing definitely did occur, the REAL cover-up is NASA's conspiracy to keep photographic and recorded-voice transmission evidence of Alien artifacts secret from the public. I've examined this claim and tend to not believe it. The most compelling photos I've seen of glass-dome tower ruins look like lava-flow outcroppings.<br><br>The Mars-images of ancient ruins (recently posted on the forum) are VERY intriguing, and I really enjoyed looking at the crisp color photos and imagining seeing artifacts of a civilization outpost perhaps millions of years old -- a REAL imaginative foray. As to whether I believe it -- I remain hopeful, but unconvinced.<br><br>I'm a hard-headed skeptic, but a dedicated sci-fi tru-believer.<br>Starman<br>******<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm">www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>--quote--<br>ISSUE 4 - There can't be any pictures taken on the Moon because the film would melt in the 250° temperatures. <br><br>Any normal film exposed to 250° would indeed melt at that temperature. There are only two problems with this Moon Hoax claim -- this was no ordinary "Ektachrome" film, and it was never exposed to those kind of temperatures in the cameras.<br><br>The 70mm film used in the Hasselblad cameras the astronauts carried was a very special transparency film designed specifically (under a NASA contract) for hostile environments like the Moon. According to Peter Vimislik at Kodak, the film would at worst begin to soften at 200° F, and would not melt until it reached at least 500° F. So, a worst case scenario of 250-280° F for a totally uninsulated, non-reflective camera would still be well within the film's operational parameters. The film itself, in terms of its light-gathering abilities, was also quite amazing (in striking contrast to the uninformed claims of the debunkers). It was a special "extended range color slide film" called "XRC," that allowed the astronauts to take perfect "National Geographic" quality pictures on the lunar surface, even though they were hardly experienced photographers. This has truly opened up whole web pages of controversy -- with the Moon Hoaxers claiming that such a film simply doesn't exist! In fact, Enterprise Principal investigator Richard C. Hoagland actually used many rolls of this "super lunar film," back when he was advising Walter Cronkite at CBS. His personal story of the film's development, its inventor, and how NASA cleverely hid its very development from everyone, will be detailed in a future segment of this series. Suffice it to say that more than thirty years after the first manned lunar mission, many of the features of this amazing film are only now finding their way into the commercially-available color emulsions used in today's modern day 35mm and 70mm non-digital cameras<br><br>As you can see from the image of Alan Bean above, the cameras were also protected inside a special case designed to keep them cool. Although it is true that in the direct, airless sunlight the temperature can reach upwards of 250° - 280° Fahrenheit, precisely because there is no air, it's fairly easy to keep cool. The situation is a lot different than in your oven, for instance. With no convection or conduction, the only type of heat that is of concern is radiative. The best way to reflect radiative heat is to wrap the object (like a camera or person) in layers designed to reflect as much heat as possible, usually by simply being white. As you can see from the images above, most all of the astronaut's clothing and the camera casing were indeed white, which very efficiently directed heat away from the both the astronauts and camera film. <br>--unquote--<br><br>BTW: This site also has a couple more earth-in-background photos from Apollo 17, of a boulder with earth in background, and earth overhead while Cernan salutes the flag.<br><br>"Next!" <p></p><i></i>
