Apollo 11 Moon Landing Revisited: Hoax ~vs~ Debunk

[Reformed Offlian]

Vixen, please explain what this AI slop is supposed to prove? This image isn't "a satellite digitally enhanced" photo, it isn't taken from a satellite, and isn't a photo at all. It's an entirely AI generated image which was immediately obviously to everyone. Only after being told multiple times did you then go back and edit you post to say it was AI generated.

Are you willing to admit that an obviously AI generated image of the moon (as taken from the moon's surface!) cannot prove anything about stars, shadows, etc.?

Can you please explain in plain English what this AI slop is supposed to prove? (watch: you can't and won't, and will weasel your way out somehow, perhaps with a stupid analogy about 16th century priests or something)

It was meant to show how afraid we all are of abstract concepts and intellectual debate.

 

[Vixen]

Vixen, please explain what this AI slop is supposed to prove? This image isn't "a satellite digitally enhanced" photo, it isn't taken from a satellite, and isn't a photo at all. It's an entirely AI generated image which was immediately obviously to everyone. Only after being told multiple times did you then go back and edit you post to say it was AI generated.

Are you willing to admit that an obviously AI generated image of the moon (as taken from the moon's surface!) cannot prove anything about stars, shadows, etc.?

Can you please explain in plain English what this AI slop is supposed to prove? (watch: you can't and won't, and will weasel your way out somehow, perhaps with a stupid analogy about 16th century priests or something)

You're just looking for the slightest excuse to have a jolly good gripe.

Here's NASA's official photo of the same pic taken by Artemis II as they travelled behind the Moon. Not terribly different.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Apart from not having two moons you mean?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Are we ready for today's eclipse?

 

[zooterkin]

Apart from not having two moons you mean?

And visible stars. Not to mention being an actual photo, not an AI hallucination.

 

[Smock]

And visible stars. Not to mention being an actual photo, not an AI hallucination.

According to @Vixen's logic, the photo with no stars is the fake, and the AI generated one with stars is real. Bizzaro World logic at its finest.

 

[JayUtah]

Here's NASA's official photo of the same pic taken by Artemis II as they travelled behind the Moon. Not terribly different.

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Give me the official NASA source for it then, please.

The lunar craters and the Earth are quite obviously being lit from different directions, so this is not a real photo either.

 

[GlennB]

Give me the official NASA source for it then, please.

The lunar craters and the Earth are quite obviously being lit from different directions, so this is not a real photo either.

Yes, and it's blindingly obvious too.

 

[Thermal]

I was going to add that the bright point of light on the top of the earth was I guess supposed to be the sun about to peek over, further complicating wtf was going on here, lighting wise.

And the smaller issue that if this was taken while Artemis traveled behind the moon as Vixen said, how would they have seen any of this?

 

[JayUtah]

And visible stars. Not to mention being an actual photo, not an AI hallucination.

The new fake photo has visible stars too.

I was going to add that the bright point of light on the top of the earth was I guess supposed to be the sun about to peek over, further complicating wtf was going on here, lighting wise.

Yes, another obvious fake and another childish wind-up from our local Triple-Niner sooper-genius who nevertheless can't seem to have a serious conversation.

 

[sackett]

Okay, so it's the unofficial NASA photograph. Pick pick picky!

Anything to avoid the True Truth. No wonder people (real people) get fed up w/ you guys.

Officially real people. Happy now? Not yet?

 

[Vixen]

Give me the official NASA source for it then, please.

The lunar craters and the Earth are quite obviously being lit from different directions, so this is not a real photo either.

Here:

Google Search

 

[Steve]

Here:

Google Search

So your "source' is Facebook. That is really convincing!

 

[zooterkin]

The new fake photo has visible stars too.

Not at the resolution I was viewing it at (and with the eyes I currently have)
But you're right, I can see them when I enlarge it.

 

[Reformed Offlian]

Here:

Google Search

So NASA maintains Google search now?

How about an *actual* link to an *actual* official NASA resource?

 

[zooterkin]

Here:

Google Search

"Source" is yet another thing you don't understand. Despite this:

I never make anything up. All of my comments are sourced, unless I state 'IMV'.

...

 

[JayUtah]

Here:

I asked for the official NASA source, not your search history or a Facebook page.

Here's what the Google reverse image search function says:

This image is not an authentic photograph; it is an AI-generated digital artwork. Digital fingerprints embedded within the image confirm that it was created or modified using artificial intelligence tools. While it resembles real "Earthrise" or "Earthset" photography captured during space exploration missions (such as the historic Apollo flights or recent Artemis imagery), this specific graphic is a digital rendering widely used online as a stock illustration to visualize the view of Earth from the lunar surface.

Try harder, genius.

 

[Reformed Offlian]

You're just looking for the slightest excuse to have a jolly good gripe.

Here's NASA's official photo of the same pic taken by Artemis II as they travelled behind the Moon. Not terribly different.

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The actual image from the NASA site's gallery is here. No stars.

art002e009288 - NASA

art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing...

www.nasa.gov

 

[Thermal]

I asked for the official NASA source, not your search history or a Facebook page.

Here's what the Google reverse image search function says:



Try harder, genius.

I feel like this new huge goof warrants a demotion to double niner or triple eighter, I can't decide which.

 

[Reformed Offlian]

I feel like this new huge goof warrants a demotion to double niner or triple eighter, I can't decide which.

Eighters gonna eight.