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A quote from one of the other three blind mice
Michael Collins, Author of everyone's favorite beach bonfire kindling jive bogus bull malarkey kindergarten pretend book, CARRYING THE FIRE(page 378), with regard to cislunar space, the Cislunar Nitwit writes;
"The stars are there, but they cannot be seen because, with sunlight flooding the spacecraft, the pupil of the eye involuntarily contracts, and the light from the stars is too dim to compete with the reflected sunlight, as both enter the eye through the tiny aperture formed by the contracted pupil.. No, to see the stars, the pupil must be allowed to relax......"
How dumb!
Funny how Mike's pupils are so constricted but Ed's are not;
"There is a sense of unreality here, with the absence of gravity and the tapestry of blackness broken only by an overwhelming glitter of stars that surrounded our craft."
Dr. Edgar Mitchell. The Way of the Explorer, Revised Edition (p. 61)
Doesn't look like Ed had any trouble seeing stars. Or Fuzzy Buzzy when he tried to turn a buck and sell a few books. From the book MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION, The Glassy Eyed Ph.D Zombie himself, reporting from cislunar space, here's not so blind this time 'round Fuzzy Buzzy;
"We had to coordinate our times with Houston, since there was really no telling day from night in space. The sun was always shining, yet the sky around us was a constant black blanket dotted with millions of stars. One thing was certain: with each passing hour, the Earth was growing smaller and the moon was getting larger when we looked out our windows."
Abraham, Ken; Aldrin, Buzz (2009-06-23). Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (p. 8). Crown Archetype.
Thanks for that Fuzzy, for a moment we'd thought none of you were able to see out of the window of that tin can. We thought you might not make it home.
AND FOR ALL THOSE MICHAEL COLLINS FANS OUT THERE, THE GUY IS AN IDIOT, FYI. PUPILARY CONSTRICTION HAS RELATIVELY LITTLE TO DO WITH DARK ADAPTATION UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES IN THAT IT OCCURS WITHIN FRACTIONS OF A SECOND. That is, it does not take minutes for one's pupils to open up, or close back down for that matter.
CAN'T THEY FIND SOME DOCTOR TO TEACH THESE GUYS HOW TO LIE HALFWAY DECENTLY? CHARLES BERRY IS A MISERABLE FAILURE AT IT.
What accounts for this type of light/dark adaptation for the most part is the regeneration of the active photosensitive chemicals that actually interact with the photons that strike one's retinae. In light, these chemicals are consumed. In the dark, they are reconstituted and so the eye becomes light sensitive again, in step with this reconstitution. This process may take 30 or 40 minutes going from very bright light, to dark conditions where one would like to see dim objects such as stars in a night sky. Plenty of time for it too when one is twiddling his thumbs in pretend cislunar space.
Sunlight is a lot brighter than a streetlamp, especially when it's bouncing off a surface that fills half your vision. It's the main reason we can't see stars during the day on earth.
The Pat got something right, seeing stars is situational, and everyone has experience of that. It's why observatories get build in remote places and tend to work at night.
You could see stars on the lunar surface if you stood in the shadow of the LM and blocked out as much of the surface as possible and waited for dark adaption. Armstrong never tried that, having better things to do, Cernan did, sucessfully. Armstrong also said it would be possible to see stars from the surface , perhaps by looking through a tube of some kind, (which is correct). It's the same reason stars aren't seen from the ISS when it's on the day side of Earth.
Also the pAt claims that Armstrong said he never saw stars in CISlunar space, yet he hasn't ever produced a quote to back that up.
He did however produce a quote that could be read that way if you had a reading disorder.
Again it's situational. In a lit craft with light bouncing off the inside of the windows you're not going to see stars, in the same way that you don't when inside at night with the lights on. BUT they used stars for attitude alignment, so clearly they could see them through the sextant.
Michael Collins, Author of everyone's favorite beach bonfire kindling jive bogus bull malarkey kindergarten pretend book, CARRYING THE FIRE(page 378), with regard to cislunar space, the Cislunar Nitwit writes;
"The stars are there, but they cannot be seen because, with sunlight flooding the spacecraft, the pupil of the eye involuntarily contracts, and the light from the stars is too dim to compete with the reflected sunlight, as both enter the eye through the tiny aperture formed by the contracted pupil.. No, to see the stars, the pupil must be allowed to relax......"
How dumb!
Funny how Mike's pupils are so constricted but Ed's are not;
"There is a sense of unreality here, with the absence of gravity and the tapestry of blackness broken only by an overwhelming glitter of stars that surrounded our craft."
Dr. Edgar Mitchell. The Way of the Explorer, Revised Edition (p. 61)
Doesn't look like Ed had any trouble seeing stars. Or Fuzzy Buzzy when he tried to turn a buck and sell a few books. From the book MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION, The Glassy Eyed Ph.D Zombie himself, reporting from cislunar space, here's not so blind this time 'round Fuzzy Buzzy;
"We had to coordinate our times with Houston, since there was really no telling day from night in space. The sun was always shining, yet the sky around us was a constant black blanket dotted with millions of stars. One thing was certain: with each passing hour, the Earth was growing smaller and the moon was getting larger when we looked out our windows."
Abraham, Ken; Aldrin, Buzz (2009-06-23). Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (p. 8). Crown Archetype.
Thanks for that Fuzzy, for a moment we'd thought none of you were able to see out of the window of that tin can. We thought you might not make it home.
AND FOR ALL THOSE MICHAEL COLLINS FANS OUT THERE, THE GUY IS AN IDIOT, FYI. PUPILARY CONSTRICTION HAS RELATIVELY LITTLE TO DO WITH DARK ADAPTATION UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES IN THAT IT OCCURS WITHIN FRACTIONS OF A SECOND. That is, it does not take minutes for one's pupils to open up, or close back down for that matter.
CAN'T THEY FIND SOME DOCTOR TO TEACH THESE GUYS HOW TO LIE HALFWAY DECENTLY? CHARLES BERRY IS A MISERABLE FAILURE AT IT.
What accounts for this type of light/dark adaptation for the most part is the regeneration of the active photosensitive chemicals that actually interact with the photons that strike one's retinae. In light, these chemicals are consumed. In the dark, they are reconstituted and so the eye becomes light sensitive again, in step with this reconstitution. This process may take 30 or 40 minutes going from very bright light, to dark conditions where one would like to see dim objects such as stars in a night sky. Plenty of time for it too when one is twiddling his thumbs in pretend cislunar space.
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