Okay, I'm looking for critique/suggestions on my thinking, as I'm relatively inexperienced with arguing with Lunar hoaxers.
On another board, someone starts a thread saying a friend of his was skeptical about the Lunar landing, and the OP was looking for arguments/ammo to reply. After a few responses, someone comes up with this gem:
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I do believe we went to the moon, but I don't believe all of the footage and photos taken are real. The photos taken are simply too many and too professional looking to have been taken by astronauts on a busy schedule.
They spent a total of 4834 minutes on the moon and the total number of published photographs was 5771. That is 1.19 photos taken every minute, regardless of their other duties and activities. Left out are also the photographs that was unusable, overexposed or underexposed, which you can't find in NASA's database. All pictures appear flawless, despite the fact that the astronauts was wearing thick gloves which would make it very difficult to adjust camera setting and also the fact that the cameras used had no functional viewfinder.
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I responded with four key ideas gleaned from a quick search on Google and Clavius:
- First, each mission had two astronauts for photos and mission work. So that's 4834 minutes x 2 = 9668 man-minutes. Plus, they planned and rehearsed plenty ahead of time to maximize mission objectives and minimize wasted time.
- Second, many published photos were panoramas, which can be taken quickly (shoot, twist, shoot, twist, shoot, etc.). Also, some photos are video stills (not sure if that's right, but video is, what, 60 pictures per second?)
- Third, the poster said *ALL* pictures were flawless. I challenged him if he *really* examined all 5771 pictures himself, or if he was just parroting Jack White's figures unchecked. I linked to the Apollo Image Atlas which has thousands of photos, and a random sample showed some of them (to me) to be sub-par.
- Fourth, and best of all, I boggled at his premise. "We went to the moon, but we faked a percentage of the photos." This was a total new one to me: hoaxers argue we didn't go to the moon at all. This guy want NASA to go to the moon numerous times AND set up an elaborate sound stage with which to fake additional photos. For Apollo's sake, WHY? It sounded like he was trying to be "cautious" and straddle the fence with a foot in both camps. But all that gets you is splinters in your butt.
So first off, was my rebuttal accurate?
Second, did I miss anything obvious? (Knowing this board, he's going to lash back with a long list of "yeahbuts."