Tell NASA to snap a picture of the Sun with an iPhone or regular camera while in space, in free space, which means above the atmosphere, in the "vacuum". Why haven't they done so, yet? Well, here's something that'll blow your mind... they CAN'T. The Sun is not visible to the naked eye or any camera that is meant to mimic how the human eye works. Astronauts can not see the Sun or ANY stars while they are in space. Why is this knowledge kept secret?
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When I was still teaching, I would go to the NASA website for pictures of the planets and yes, the sun.
So like what the fuck is wrong with you?
Go outside when it's foggy. Look up.
Make sure the weather forecast doesn't predict rain, or you might drown.
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The above is more likely than your stupid idea. Then again, you're from Shroomery, so any idea is more likely than yours.
I'm not sure what inspired this piece of drivel, but it may have been that in the pictures the astronauts took on the Moon, you can't see the stars. That has also inspired some 'The Lunar Landings were a hoax!' nutters to cry foul.
The reason for the lack of stars in the photos was because it was 'daytime' on the Moon. As with daytime on Earth, the brightness of the Sun simply obliterates any light thrown by the stars.
Taking photos of the Sun in space with a compact or iPhone-type camera in space would simply show a load of whiteness. Again, this is also what happens on Earth.
That would be... interesting.
Sunlighthits the moon with such intensity that on a clear, dry night, under full moonlight, you can read a magazine.
Now imagine standing on the moon. Savagely harsh white light illuminates the pale grey craters and moon sand around you. Your shadows tell you exactly where that light is coming from, but you look up there and this powerful, blanching, unfiltered light is coming to you from... a black space in the sky?
Look, we all know the The Police were a great band, but "Invisible Sun" is not an educational or instructive song. If he thinks it is, one shudders to imagine what he thinks about "Don't Stand So Close to Me".
I knew there was at least ONE person who believed this, but...two? Seriously?
Riddle us this, dingus--what magical property of the atmosphere lets us see the giant white disco ball o' death what hangs in the sky?
I have a hunch Keepsake brought up the proviso of "above the atmosphere" for a reason. They may think that it's not the Sun in and of itself that we see, but rather air directly affected by its influence.
If anyone wants to do reconnaissance (I don't), does anything else on the page support that suspicion of mine?
The Sun is not visible to the naked eye or any camera that is meant to mimic how the human eye works.
The fact you can look up and see that giant ball of flaming gas might just be evidence that you're wrong here...
Why is this knowledge kept secret?
What I want to know is... if this knowledge is kept so secret, how the fuck did you (a complete nobody) find out about it??
I am still trying to figure out that is supposed to work.
So, the sun is there but you can only see it if its light is filtered through the atmosphere? What.
"Why haven't they done so, yet? "
They have, you idiot. Your kind just ignore them and call them "fake". Why should we think even if they did(again, for what is probably the millionth time) that you would accept them as genuine?
The blind trying to lead the blind? Afterall, after trying to look at the Sun for too long...
"It's only electromagnetic radiation, there is no atmosphere to filter it and there is no light!"
Maybe I should add that because of the lack of an atmosphere in the space vacuum, when not in the shadows (directly under the Sun rays), the heat is immediately intense.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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