Author Topic: Watching the detectives...  (Read 49805 times)

Offline MartinC

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Re: Watching the detectives...
« Reply #120 on: January 28, 2026, 10:10:14 AM »

All they're managing to do is demonstrate how little they are prepared to put in to learning something new, and rely instead on their favourite fall back "I don't understand...". They are, at least, letting their audience know about scientific papers, whose authors do not work for NASA, that demonstrate that Apollo happened.

In fact it is more than that. Here is a direct quote from the ADs in their comments section:

"Scott always makes sarcastic remarks when there is far too much information being displayed because as far as we are concerned, too much information is beyond absurdity which liars being interrogated will do to try to get out of trouble, but always get caught in the end. That was what Scott's sarcasm was being directed towards which I agree with him on this. Posting far too much information is not always the right way to go, even within the scientific community."

So one can conclude from this that with any lengthy technical or scientific paper the ADs will start with the view that is is wrong/hiding something and that anyone relying upon it must prove otherwise and must meet whatever arbitary standards they set. Alternatively, the ADs will draw their own arbitary "conclusions" and present them as fact.

Offline JayUtah

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Re: Watching the detectives...
« Reply #121 on: January 28, 2026, 11:29:19 AM »
To be sure, film has grain—as in individual crystals of photochemically reactive substances. As such there is a minimum resolution to film that can be expressed as a density. Back when I did film photography, we would scan film at 4000 dots per inch, and this was fine enough so that individual film grains were usually represented as multiple pixels in the final image. Somewhere I have a hard disk that has Roll 40 scans from the camera originals (not dupe masters) at 4000 DPI, but I don't remember where I put it.

The point is that if you really wanted to, you could express film's granularity and dimensions in terms similar to those you'd use to describe a CCD sensor of comparable pixel density and size. While film grain is evenly distributed, it is not uniformly distributed. Nevertheless it is theoretically possible to express film granularity in such terms as average grains per square millimeter, which would be similar enough to uniform CCD pixels per square millimeter.

That's not how film granularity is typically measured, though. You use a root mean square method on actual densitometry measurements. This accommodates the nonuniform distribution and gives the result as a statistic, not a discrete number. So while in theory you can apply "megapixels" to film, you shouldn't. Film is only technically a discrete medium, and therefore usually isn't treated or measured as one in photography or photographic analysis.
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Offline TimberWolfAu

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Re: Watching the detectives...
« Reply #122 on: January 28, 2026, 04:46:50 PM »
McKeegan continues his response to the Detectives, and I swear you can hear the quote marks whenever he refers to their "analysis".



Classic items of note, the Detectives refer to the same photo as different directions, more than once, one of their example "photos", being used to show Apollo was fake, appears to be an AI generated picture.