Google “forced perspective” then google
“Dolly zoom examples” to get an idea of how that would be possible
With the right lens and distance I can make any object look as big or as small as I’d like
We can also use the approximate sizes of the earth and moon in that image to figure out what lens length was used, and how far away that photo was taken.
I want to reiterate here that we spent hundreds of Billions on going the moon. If those billions were spent faking the moon landings, we definitely didn’t mess up the simple math.
There’s a lot of unanswered questions about the landings and the propaganda, but I think the math and image perspectives all check out. Gets a passing grade from me, I’ve tried to debunk it, but only became very convinced the more I looked.
The 6” has a radius of 3”
To find area we multiply pi * r² to get 28 square inches
For the 24”, pi * 12², or 452 square inches
The 24in has 4x the diameter but is 16x the area, this is where you’re getting the 13x number.
The math works about the same for the moon and earth
3.7x diameter, 13x area sounds right
But we’re not calculating area, only comparing their size ratios.
Since the Earth is 4x the size of the moon, and we’re the same distance, the earth would look 4x bigger from the moon as the moon does from Earth
The “blue marble” photo looks huge!
taken 18k miles from earth, so why doesn’t Earth look huge from the moon? Because the moon is 240k miles away, on the surface of the moon that photo would appear 13x smaller