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I had to deal with utter stupid today.

bunch of guys discussing why when the astronauts went to the moon, there were no stars in the pictures, and how that means they really didn't go to the moon. and when I tried to explain it based on what I'd learned from watching shows about the moon landings on Science Channel, they brushed me off because "Science Channel is made by men, who haven't been to the moon".

Basically: once you factor the light reflecting off the lunar soil, and the fact that the sun is a fuckton more intense in space than in the atmosphere, and you adjust the exposure to account for those, the rest of the stars are just too dim to show up at that exposure setting.


The kicker is that all the dudes talking about it were at least 10 years older than me.