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Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

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Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

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Post by rz2k »

chollida1 wrote: post #56
jyap wrote: post #28

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The only people who care that it isn't a picture of Neil Armstrong are: - People who know it isn't a picture of Neil Armstrong and feel like they need to point that out. - People who are bothered by the slight inaccuracy that it isn't a picture taken of him. Either way, he took the picture. He took one of the most famous pictures. If the caption to the picture reads "Buzz Aldrin as captured by Neil Armstrong", who ca…

> - People who are bothered by the slight inaccuracy that it isn't a picture taken of him. Umm the fact that its a picture of some one else is way more than a "slight" inaccuracy. you could probably replace photos of Stalin and Churchill and no one would care about that "slight inaccuracy" :)

How about if the central photograph at a Churchill monument was a photograph of Stalin taken by Churchill taken at Yalta?

Surely, that would only be a slight detail.

Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

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Post by angstrom »

brudgers wrote: post #63
jeffool wrote: post #60

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If I still worked in news (I worked in TV) I'd go with this, definitely. "Neil Armstrong, seen here back in the lunar module after his historic moon walk..." Also, the picture of Armstrong climbing back in the Lunar Module is fine. Conversely, to those arguing the use of a reflective shot of Aldrin's visor? I think that's worth including if I'd also included that shot inside the LM. An close up of this picture, showi…

What I love about the photograph is that it captures his total wonderment at having just fn walked on the fn moon. He and Aldrin still have to get their spacecraft off the Lunar surface, rendezvous with the command module, fly back to Earth, and land the damn thing. It captures a timelessness moment in between.

If nothing else, the following plaque sums the humbling nature of someone who accurately captured the gravitas of the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A11.plaque.jpg

Today, some of the flags planted on the moon still stand upright. However, 40 years of intense UV radiation have bleached them all white. The plaque remains.

Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

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Post by estebank »

angstrom wrote: post #112
brudgers wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I love about the photograph is that it captures his total wonderment at having just fn walked on the fn moon. He and Aldrin still have to get their spacecraft off the Lunar surface, rendezvous with the command module, fly back to Earth, and land the damn thing. It captures a timelessness moment in between.

If nothing else, the following plaque sums the humbling nature of someone who accurately captured the gravitas of the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A11.plaque.jpg Today, some of the flags planted on the moon still stand upright. However, 40 years of intense UV radiation have bleached them all white. The plaque remains.

Somehow I feel that bleached out featureless flags on the Moon matches the message in that plaque perfectly.

Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

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Post by anuraj »

derleth wrote: post #109
anuraj wrote: post #95

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Has US ever been in an either or situation? Defence budget in 2010 is $680B, and cost of a moon landing is $18B in 2010 dollars. Given that both are deficit funded, and dollar can be printed at will, is this convincing?

> Given that both are deficit funded, and dollar can be printed at will This bespeaks a gross lack of knowledge about how a modern economy works.

Perhaps you may find it gross to understand why US has been able to spend well beyond its means - Does dollar denominated trade ring a bell?

Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

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Post by jakejake »

archgoon wrote: post #91
jakejake wrote: post #88

I don't really have a problem with the photo as long as the caption doesn't say it's Neil. It's a historic moment that everybody should recognize. He is known for this event and even took the photo. As for the doctoring, I don't find it unethical. I don't have a problem straitening a crooked photo, adjusting the contrast, etc to make the photo visually appealing. That's not the same as adding a person. I understand j…

The 'doctoring' is only slightly above the level of adding a border around the image. If this is doctoring, then all Mars photos's are 'doctored', as they're stitched together from much smaller photos.

I have to agree. If they had added the earth or some detail which wasn't in the original photo then I might feel differently. But just adding some black to fix the composition issues seems ok to me.
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