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Smoke and Mirrors

The men and women who have labored to set forth the truth of the Apollo Space Program, revealing
it to be a deception on a grand scale, have provided abundant proofs exposing the lies of NASA.
Because the majority of material presented to the public by NASA consisted of videos and still
images, an examination of these elements has taken center stage as the main exhibits presented to
the public jury to establish the fact that a hoax has taken place. Even with NASA claiming to have
lost a vast amount of the highest quality original video and still images of the Moon landings, the
evidence of fakery is both abundant and compelling.

Photographic technology in the late 1960s and early 1970s was not what it is today. There were no
digital cameras. Auto-focus had not been invented for it requires miniaturized computer circuitry.
IBM’s Personal Computer would not come out for another decade, being first released in 1981. Even
then, the first PC was underwhelming in its capabilities. The entire computer processing capacity
of NASA’s Apollo Space Program was less than that of an Apple iPhone, even the first generation
Apple iPhone. Indeed, the memory and processing capacity of the iPhone dwarfs the abilities of the
mainframe computers NASA was using for the Apollo Program.

The IBM System/360 Model 75 was the workhorse of NASA. Its maximum memory capacity was
1 Megabyte. For comparison, I am typing this book on a 2 year old laptop computer that has 24
Gigabytes of RAM memory, and 1 Terabyte of solid state hard drive storage. Mega is a prefix for
a million, Giga a prefix for billion, and Tera the prefix for trillion. The IBM mainframe NASA used
could perform 940 kIPS (thousand instructions per second.) For comparison, the Apple iPhone 1
operated at a speed of 412 million cycles per second. The iPhone also had an additional graphics
processor giving it even more computational capability.

For additional reference to the state of technology in the Apollo years, color television sales did not
surpass sales of black and white televisions until 1972, the final year of the Moon program. The
majority of Americans watched the Moon landings on black and white cathode ray tube televisions,
whose average screen size was 12" for a tabletop model, and 22" for a console T.V.. There is more
computer capacity in a programmable toaster today than there was present in the Apollo command
and lunar modules’ navigational computers.