by GaryN » Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:49 am
"It's perfectly black" -Chris Hadfield
I really like him, such a nice, polite Canadian boy! Love to meet him and buy him a beer (or 3) and ask him a few questions. He never actually came out and said he could see no stars, or the Milky way, or other planets, chose his words carefully, but of course people say he was just commenting on the background blackness, and that he could see hundreds of stars was just to be taken for granted. Most Apollo astronauts told us straight out that they could see no stars from deep space, or from the lunar surface. The greatest majority of people absolutely believe the stars are visible from space, it's what we have been told by our teachers and is of course a logical belief given the fact that they can be so impressive from Earth. Truth will out, but probably not within my lifetime.
[quote]"It's perfectly black" -Chris Hadfield[/quote]
I really like him, such a nice, polite Canadian boy! Love to meet him and buy him a beer (or 3) and ask him a few questions. He never actually came out and said he could see no stars, or the Milky way, or other planets, chose his words carefully, but of course people say he was just commenting on the background blackness, and that he could see hundreds of stars was just to be taken for granted. Most Apollo astronauts told us straight out that they could see no stars from deep space, or from the lunar surface. The greatest majority of people absolutely believe the stars are visible from space, it's what we have been told by our teachers and is of course a logical belief given the fact that they can be so impressive from Earth. Truth will out, but probably not within my lifetime.