And that is what many have said, but time and time again, it has been shown that we did.

One surprising new debunker emerged recently; NVIDIA. They have launched two new cards that offer global illumination and were wondering how to demonstrate this new lighting method. This method is basically saying ‘The light does not just bounce off a material and then straight into the camera or gone; it bounces all over the place, hitting multiple surfaces, reflecting and refracting and a single photon may have bounced 20 or 100 times before coming into the camera’. This changes how stuff look, but think about this; when the sun shines in to your room from one angle, your whole room is lit, not just the parts that the sun light hits.

Based on this, NVIDIA decided to test their engine on a photo from the Lunar Landing, showing Buzz Aldrin descending from the Lander, being in the shadow of it, however also being rather well lit. The nay-sayers were saying ‘This is impossible, because he was in the Lander’s shadow, so he should have been black’.

Well, here is what NVIDIA found.

I suspect this will make little difference to the nay-sayers. As Mark Daly said:

Because this has been done before; another, possibly more famous, attempt at the same picture, a special episode of Mythbusters titled “NASA Moon Landing”, aired on August 27, 2008. They did a lot of the “things wrong with the moon landing” and one of them was this photo. They built a model to take a shot of it, used sand with the same light reflecting/refracting properties as the moon surface and provided just one light source. The result was the same illumination of the model Aldrin.

On the same episode they tackled various other “photo evidence of the hoax” and all came back as Busted.

There are even the more “serious” (if you like) analyses on why the “hoax evidence” is wrong, but hey, they are just part of the machine, right?