My straydog's been busy, so busy I've had to reorganise his little section of my site before it becomes unmanageable..
I really can't tell if he's just trying to entrap his nemesis Jenny, but he genuinely seems to be claiming that a really poor Apollo 17 image from the LPI site shows Earth, mostly on the grounds that lots of different AI packages tell him it is. He's using that poor quality version to try and prove that Earth was pasted in to the image. It isn't Earth, but it does show an interesting aberration on a few photos that might be lens flare relating to a bright Earth shining off camera.
https://onebigmonkey.com/itburns/barking/ghof2/ghof2.htmlIn between that, and regurgitating other long debunked nonsense from Jack White, he's turned his attention to the mysterious stone circle in Surveyor crater visible in orbital images. His conclusion: if Apollo astronauts visited the crater, they would definitely have made note of it and gone to see it but by golly they just don't. The reality: it doesn't look like a circle from the ground:
https://onebigmonkey.com/itburns/barking/ring/ringpiece.htmlElsewhere in stupidland, Rasa has found JPL's VICAR software, developed in the 60s in order to store and manage images sent from far off worlds by, eg, Viking.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19770021885/downloads/19770021885.pdfHe's implying that its existence shows 'they' had the ability to edit and manipulate Apollo images. Ironically, he may have stumbled on teh reaosn why the Apollo 11 telemetry tapes were re-used. VICAR used punch cards to process the data, and stored the output on magnetic tape. One tape could hold up to 99 images, depending on image size. I have no idea if the same tape was used, maybe someone else can clarify.
Even if he was correct he forgets, of course, that in order to process those images they had to exist in the first place.
He's also urging his followers to use the wayback machine to download vintage scans of Apollo images, so that they can be compared with modern scans and prove that the are fake. He can't wrap his head around the idea that images were re-scanned to improve the standard of electronic copy available, what with both scanning and image processing software improving a lot over the years. Guess it hasn't occurred to him to spend less on weed and more on buying actual vintage copies.
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