Re: Astoundingly stupid kook Michael Davis gets worked up

Michael Davis farts: "BTW, you may consider yourself debunked."

You debunk ME?  You gotta be kidding, you don't have the mentality.  And
you can't debunk me since I didn't make any claims, I just brought
attention to the site.

E.L.
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Astoundingly stupid kooks get worked up over Moon Footage   
 
Group: alt.alien.visitors Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2003, 3:50pm (EDT+4) From:
mdavis19@ix.netcom.com (Michael�Davis) 
Ed "Mr. Ed" Lopez drooled the following idiocy: 
http://shadowboxent.brinkster.net/moon/esjmoon.html 
Scroll down past the black and white stills to see the stills in motion
(animated gif) after downloading. 
E.L. 
I guess this sort of idiocy is to be expected from someone who has
admitted to drawing on his TV screen with grease pencil to track ice
particles in Space Shuttle cargo bay video, right Mr. Ed? 
What really astounds me is the level of utter stupidity demonstrated by
the kooks who put together that page. I quote from that farce of a web
page: 
"It looks like a smokestack ejecting a puff of smoke. The cloud drifts
to the right and then dissipates." 
Well of course this is impossible in a vacuum. Smoke particles would
fall to the surface of the moon immediately in a vacuum with no air to
buoy them up, and would not "drift" anywhere with no wind to blow them
around. So it clearly cannot be smoke. Anyone with even a minimal grasp
of physics ought to be able to see that fact immediately and discard
that silly "hypothesis" in favor of more mundane (and sane)
alternatives. Too bad UFO kooks are all universally ignorant of the
sciences. It leads them to say really stupid things. 
So much for what it isn't. Now, as to what it is. It looks to me like
nothing more than dirt on one of the camera lens elements. The camera is
being zoomed during the photo sequence (note the Earth seeming to get
larger during the sequence). It appears that a smudge on one of the lens
elements is merely coming into focus, then going back out of focus as
the focal length of the lens was zoomed. The dark object on the surface
of the Moon looks like nothing more than the shadow of a boulder. The
appearance of the lens smudge near the boulder shadow was merely
coincidental and nothing to get excited about. 
Bad horse, Mr. Ed, no carrot for you. 
BTW, you may consider yourself debunked.