Those stupid Moon Hoaxers really get to me sometimes.
It's not just the fact that they're so stupidly, pathetically wrong;
it's not even that they're so smug, superior, and self-righteous
over what they think is a great find
that not even the best scientists in the world were able to uncover.
It's mostly because they continually assault me with their idiocy,
lie about me on my channel and other places,
and generally don't just leave people in peace when they've been thoroughly trounced.
Since ignoring them obviously won't cause them to go away,
all I know to do is expose how completely moronic they are--
although they won't even see it.
Well, I'm going to do it with the piece of footage they say is unassailable--
the Apollo 15 flag waving as David R. Scott passes it.
Now, I've debunked the waving flags so much it's a wonder anyone even TRIES.
Showing that a) they only move when an astronaut interacts with them,
and b) they ALWAYS swing slowly to a halt instead of stopping due to air resistance,
EVERY SINGLE PIECE of flag-waving footage can be explained.
Look at this: even in their prize footage, the flag swings and swings and swings,
LONG after it would have stopped if it had actually been subjected
to one atmosphere of air pressure.
ONLY in a near or complete vacuum will it behave this way.
But point it out all you want to Jarrah White, Greenmagoos, and the rest of the hoaxtards;
they won't have a bit of it. They'll either ignore you, or insult you,
or tell lies about you to others to try and discredit you.
What they WON'T do is actually refute the argument.
There are two very good possible explanations for why the flag moves in this video.
One is simply that Scott brushed up against the flag with his arm as he went past.
The other is that there is a triboelectric effect going on:
the nylon flag would have easily built up a static charge in transit,
and could easily have been attracted to Scott's spacesuit like socks fresh from the drier.
Since the airless moon has no humidity to break down the static charge,
it will be effective over a longer distance.
The moon hoaxers INSIST that Scott is too far away from the flag
for either of these to be the case.
Well, let's try it. Let's set it up in a computer 3D environment,
and see if we can tell just how close Scott comes to the flag.
The first thing we need is the flag's real dimensions.
Scaling is VERY important in this kind of examination,
so it's important to have the genuine size.
Fortunately, all of this was laid out in the Apollo 15 Press Kit, which says:
So, there we are. We can now set up a rectangle in a 3D environment
scaled to precisely this measurement.
We can also crinkle it up a bit to match the look of the deployed flag.
The camera MUST be set up to match the perspective,
and the ONLY way this can happen is if the camera
is in the same position relative to the flag as it was on the moon.
Any closer, and the angles will become too steep to match;
any further away, and the flag becomes too isometric.
ONLY in this position will the flag appear identical to the way it does
in the viewing frame of the video.
Now we can set up a 3D humanoid figure to represent Scott.
Again, scale is very important here.
We don't know exactly how tall Scott is in the suit,
but we know how tall Scott is normally, again thanks to the Apollo 15 Press Kit--
he's six feet tall, 2.4 times as tall as the flag.
So we can make our figure 6 feet tall to represent Scott inside the space suit.
We flex his knees as he would in the pressurized suit,
and we have him lean forward the same amount to compensate for the weight of the backpack.
We can see that the eyes in the helmet are in the middle of the visor, just as they should be.
We can also see the position of his arms in the video, and we adjust our figure to match.
Obviously, this is not precise, but it should give us a general idea
of where Scott was in relation to the flag.
Keep in mind that we're not really interested in whether or not this figure touches the flag;
the figure is in a suit, and there's bound to be a small margin for error
in the way the 3D environment is set up.
The thing we're looking for is: is Scott right next to the flag,
or is he, as the hoaxtards claim, way too far away
to touch it or affect it triboelectrically?
First, now that we've got everything matching a clear frame in the video,
let's move our Scott proxy forward to where he's closer to the flag along his line of travel.
Now, since all of this is modelled in 3D,
we can move the camera to any point
and see for ourselves how close the humanoid figure is to the flag.
Look now at the size of the figure relative to the flag.
The moon hoaxers say that the only way the figure can be this large in the frame
is if he's much closer to the camera than the flag--
putting him too far away to have an effect on it, other than by moving air.
So, what do you think?
Do you think that the moon hoaxers are smarter than the best scientists in the world,
and have uncovered the greatest conspiracy ever,
involving not only hundreds if not thousands of scientists and engineers,
but government officials from the US, the USSR, China, Australia, and many others,
as well as hundreds of amateur astronomers and radio enthusiasts
who claim to have tracked the Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon?
Or, since even special-needs children know we landed on the moon,
are the moon hoaxers dumber than they are?
I'll give you a minute to contemplate it.
Okay, that's enough.
Now let's move the camera around our scene and see how close this guy is to the flag.
Remember: if he's close to the flag, we win and the moon hoaxers are stupid morons.
If he's far away from the flag, the moon hoaxers win
and we all have to stand in awe of their intelligence and insight,
and maybe even give them a Nobel prize! Let's find out.
See? He's WAY close!
You can clearly see that, in a bulky spacesuit,
he would absolutely brush up against the flag with his elbow,
or, at least, come so close to it that the triboelectric effect would move it.
Personally, I think he's so close we can just conclude he brushed it with his elbow!
So, as it turns out, the moon hoaxers are dumber than special-needs children.
But did you REALLY think it could be otherwise?
If so, you might be a moon hoaxer!
And just watch: they WON'T be convinced by this.
They'll go into the comments section and pull their usual crap,
having never even bothered to try something as basic as this
to see if their idiotic claims match reality.
Because to them, it's not about being right; it's about their egotism--
they HAVE to be smarter than everyone else, and superior to everyone else,
and know things that no one else knows, and everyone else is to stupid to accept.
Moon hoaxers are to be laughed at, mocked, and utlimately, pitied.