by Ann » Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:51 am
Perhaps you still don't accept my line of reasoning, Giordano Bruno. Perhaps you say that the camera that snapped the Apollo photos was never looking straight at the Sun. Instead, the Sun was always behind the camera. So the camera ought not to have been blinded, and the sky was black, so clearly we should have seen stars in the sky. Right?
Wrong. Take a look at this youtube video from downtown Las Vegas at night. See any stars?
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
See any stars? No, you don't, because all the lights in the sky are artificial.
Why don't we see any stars here? Because the city is too brightly lit up. The bright lights of Las Vegas overwhelm the faint lights of the stars. Remember, however, that the bright lights of night-time Las Vegas are nowhere near as bright as the daytime Sun of the Moon. The Moon is lit up far, far brighter by the Sun than Las Vegas is ever lit up at night.
You just can't see any stars from the Earth or the Moon when the unocculted Sun is in their skies. Get used to it.
Ann
Perhaps you still don't accept my line of reasoning, Giordano Bruno. Perhaps you say that the camera that snapped the Apollo photos was never looking straight at the Sun. Instead, the Sun was always behind the camera. So the camera ought not to have been blinded, and the sky was black, so clearly we should have seen stars in the sky. Right?
Wrong. Take a look at this youtube video from downtown Las Vegas at night. See any stars?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOAPBT8v5lI[/youtube]
See any stars? No, you don't, because all the lights in the sky are artificial.
Why don't we see any stars here? Because the city is too brightly lit up. The bright lights of Las Vegas overwhelm the faint lights of the stars. Remember, however, that the bright lights of night-time Las Vegas are nowhere near as bright as the daytime Sun of the Moon. The Moon is lit up far, far brighter by the Sun than Las Vegas is ever lit up at night.
You just can't see any stars from the Earth or the Moon when the unocculted Sun is in their skies. Get used to it.
Ann