Rant: Everyone keeps mixing up the Moon landing footage frame rates

I keep seeing people claim the Apollo 11 footage looks fake because the flag waves in a vacuum, but they ignore that it was filmed at 24 fps and the astronauts moved at half speed on purpose. The real giveaway is the dust landing patterns under the Lunar Module at Tranquility Base - no atmosphere means it fans out in a perfect cone, not a cloud. I've checked the NASA technical documents from 1969 myself, and the math on the descent engine thrust matches that dust behavior exactly. Has anyone else actually looked at the high-res scans from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the landing sites?

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felixlane1mo ago

Read the LRO data yourself or just trust the blog posts about it?

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felixlane1mo ago

Feel for you. It's exhausting trying to separate what's real from what's just someone's interpretation online.

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