turbonium, on 26 January 2013 - 07:42 AM, said:
I understand it's your excuse to not conduct this experiment.
So if you could...have a go at it, please..
I've shown you how you can prove something to yourself. You've made it perfectly clear over the years that you don't agree with anything I have to say on Apollo, so why would you believe me now? You wouldn't. I was hoping you might believe your own eyes by doing your own experimentation. I was wrong. Meh.
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Also, do you have any other examples of this happening? There should be many, no?
You asked for another example, you were shown it. Now you want many other examples, even though you refuse to believe the data that's been spoonfed to you? You can keep on pulling, Turbs, but it ain't gonna ring...
Simple scientific principles, and the available data, prove that sunlight can indeed reflect off a bright white spacesuit (fancy that!), and reflect off another surface several feet away. What you choose to believe is entirely your own prerogative, but facts are facts. Groves analysis is flawed because he didn't even address the possibility of the side of Armstrong's suit closest to the light-source being responsible for the highlight in Aldrin's boot, despite all the effort he put in to accurately determining where the light-source was. There is ample evidence to support the fact that spacesuits do reflect enough light to illuminate another surface at a distance of several feet.
Join the dots, follow the evidence, see where it leads you. What you shouldn't do, is push the evidence in the direction you would like it to go. You are coming from the angle of "I must prove at all cost that a spacesuit cannot cause the reflection seen in Aldrin's boot". Hence, you come out with woolly statements such as "It could be a slip-up in the stage lighting", or "it's a glitch", which is a poor excuse.
Yet again, this is absolutely nothing to do with discussing the evidence in a rational, objective way. It's purely to do with not losing the argument, at all costs. In other words, it boils down to ego. Your ego won't allow you to admit that Armstrong's suit could indeed reflect sunlight onto Aldrin's boot. I find that quite strange, since it would sign of strength of character to admit you were wrong. Further, admitting you were wrong does not mean you need to admit that Armstrong was indeed the first man on the moon. You could simply shift your position to say, OK, the highlight in Aldrin's boot could indeed be caused by bright light reflected off Armstrong's suit, but whose to say it isn't the bright superlight that Percy alluded to, rather than the sun? That would be the intellectually honest way out for you, which has been offered up to you on a plate, and which you refused to accept.
As I said, you're not following the evidence.
You're trying to force the evidence where you want it to go, which is something akin to herding cats: amusing for the rest of us to watch for a while, but ultimately an exercise in futility.