Five‘s about to repeat a programme questioning the authenticity of the Apollo moon landings, and the few questions rhetorically posed during the trails piqued my curiousity enough to investigate.
But a quick visit to Wikipedia (which seems to have had a makeover) got me back on the path of rationality – the fluttering flags and absent stars of tabloid rumourmongering proving to be no match for cold, hard facts.
Still, it wasn’t by any means a wasted trip. One chap’s conspiracy-debunking site led me to the fantastic Apollo Lunar Surface Journal – just the kind of massively detailed resource that the internet is perfect for – in search of footage of the flag being planted, windy or not.
The ALSJ is fantastic – these days we might be used to the high-rez snapshots of our Martian tourists, but these were taken by a real person standing there with a Hasselblad. Robots don’t say “cheese” – one day we’re going to get their ourselves.
And when we do, they’ll be whole new worlds of lighting to design.
