Jack White rediculously claims Apollo 11 8X10 photos on LM footpad in Apollo 15 photo

"Expert" photo analyst Jack White claims that 8x10 glossy prints from the supposed Apollo 11 landing hoax are laying atop one of the footpads in an Apollo 15 lunar surface photo. Jack implies that the Apollo 15 photo is proof of the moon landing hoax since (apparently obvious only to Jack) some stage hand accidentally left two photos from the Apollo 11 hoax atop the footpad of the Apollo 15 lander.

As you will see, the "photos" atop the LM footpad really are Mylar sheets which were torn away from the side of the LM descent stage during landing. It is amazing that Jack completely ignored the huge crumpled and folded Mylar sheet laying on the ground just to the right of the LM footpad, and ignored the region on the side of the LM descent stage where Mylar layers obviously had been torn away.

Wow, if this guy is an "expert" photo analyst, I sure would hate to have him testify in court. He could convince a dumb jury of just about anything.

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[losability]

..and all the sand still there.

Thanks for your Jack White reference. I googled and found his analysis. Thanks.

[GoneToPlaid]

@losability You're welcome.

[ApolloWasReal]

@EGMAG So who do we get to act as judge or referree for this bet? You?

[ApolloWasReal]

@EGMAG Seems simple enough to me; just click on the "sort by thread" option at the top of the message window and read them in order.

You were complaining about the materials used on the LM. I was saying that you have no idea what those materials actually were, or their properties, or even what properties are important in a spacecraft application.

[ApolloWasReal]

@RadioPsiHAWKlogCent0 Yes, the legs were designed to absorb kinetic energy. There's even a NASA document you can download with all the details - exactly how much energy each part of each leg could absorb over how much distance. Do you think they're really publish all that stuff if it were a hoax?

[ApolloWasReal]

@EGMAG Perhaps you should get some samples of these materials and play with them before you conclude what their properties are. Things are not always what they seem.

[ApolloWasReal]

@catmandinko You're wrong on many accounts. The materials you see here may look like foil or cheap plastic but they are actually special aerospace plastics like Kapton with good resistance to both extreme heat and cold. And the LM didn't get back to earth because it wasn't designed to. The descent stage you see here is still sitting on the moon; the upper stage was used to rendezvous with the CSM in orbit and then jettisoned or crashed onto the moon. Only the CM made it back with the astronauts.

[ApolloWasReal]

I'm pretty sure the insulation here isn't Mylar but aluminized Kapton. Kapton is a DuPont polyimide plastic that can withstand extreme temperature and is very popular in aerospace for that reason. It's used in sheets (as here, protecting the descent stage) and as adhesive tapes (in many places on the LM). It has an orange color, so when a thin layer of aluminum is deposited on the reverse side to make a thermal blanket it appears yellow, gold or red depending on Kapton thickness.

[Astrobrant2]

White's "gotcha" questions are typical of hoax nuts. He asks why they would have A11 photos lying on the footpad in A15. Well, why would they have them laying there if this was faked?