Artemis II… Is This Actually Fake?

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The Aremis 2 mission around the moon.

[00:00:03]Was it actually fake?

[00:00:05]Let's get into it. Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Well, there's a lot of people today that are saying the Aremis 2 mission was fake and they're pointing to about five specific moments that, well, when you look at them at first glance, it looks kind of bad for NASA. It really does. Well, the first one was Commander Reed Weissman.

[00:00:31]He ended up saying something during a press conference that just lit people up. All the conspiracy theorists out there that said, "We've never landed on the moon said, "There you go. Evidence thereof."

[00:00:45]End of story. Drop the mic. What did he say? This is the first time we're going to send humans to the moon and we're going to have humans in low Earth orbit.

[00:00:57]Now, what these people would just hone in on is the fact that he said, "This is the first time we're going to send humans to the moon. Full stop."

[00:01:09]They don't read anything after that. Not an and, not an or, nothing after that.

[00:01:14]That's what they fixate in. and they will do an entire video on just that instead of reading the entire thing because that's what they do. I don't know if they're just simply inept, if there's something wrong with them, if they're mental midgets, or they just can't read, they don't know the English language well or what. Now, I know some of you guys are going to say, "No, it sounded like this is the first time we went to the moon." Listen again. This is the first time we're going to send humans to the moon and we're going to have humans in low earth orbit. It's and first time we're sending humans to the moon while right because it's and have humans in low earth orbit. The ISS the international space station we didn't have that in 1969 7071 and 72. We went to the moon during the Apollo missions.

[00:02:05]We didn't have that. So, what he stated was 100% factual, but they just can't read, they can't hear, they can't discern, or there's something wrong with them. And I don't know what the answer is to that.

[00:02:22]Maybe you guys can tell me. The next one is this zipline escape theory that was out there. And it was supposed to be proof that the Aremis moon mission was staged because what they stated was at Tminus0 they saw these baskets being hurled off the SLS the pad 39B to safety down this like cabling system. Well, you always seem to find these type of theories from these guys that are like hooded and they're like it looks like they're in their basement and they're sitting on this green screen and they don't know how to do luma king or chroma king and their their hoodie is like disappearing and coming back or their hair is disappearing and coming back and they're giving you these theories and they it look like they've been sitting in the basement since co. These are the guys. You know them.

[00:03:15]Well, let me just start out with Yes, there was baskets. Yes, they were launched off at T minus0. Absolutely. Matter of fact, that zipline is 1,335 ft long because I did the research.

[00:03:30]That's what I do, right? Well, that basketing system is called an EES or an emergency egress system. What does that mean? That means in case of an emergency, astronauts or personnel can jump into those baskets and now propel themselves very quickly all the way down to the ground to safety. So if there's a leak or some type of imminent danger, they would be able to escape. Now, it's not as much for the astronauts because the astronauts, remember, are inside the capsule. That capsule is armed. So if they need to escape, it has propulsion.

[00:04:07]It has rockets to blast them off thousands of feet in the air and then parachute them down to safety. Okay, so there's no problem with the astronauts.

[00:04:17]They can get out, but it's the personnel that are up there. They're the ones that would jump into the baskets and then get launched down for the most part. Now, this EES system has been there ever since the beginning. 39B has had this system connected to it ever since the space shuttle days. Trust me, I went to see the space shuttle launch many of times. This system is on that pad. But with the space shuttle, it stays in place. Now with the space shuttle, it was sitting at about 200 and some feet.

[00:04:45]With the SLS, which is much taller, is sitting at 300 and some feet. The difference is is this rocket has so much more propulsion, all right, that it would melt. It would turn those baskets into debris, into shrapnel if they left them connected. So, ever since the Aremis, they would launch those baskets to safety so they don't destroy them even when they're empty. So, were the astronauts in those baskets? No. Did the baskets launch off the top of that pad 39B? Yes, they did.

[00:05:26]I hope that helps. Okay, I hope that helps because when you see this stuff and you listen to these people once again that are sitting on these green screens and their hair and their hoodie is disappearing and they're just like it's just it gets to be much. It kind of aggravates me, right? It aggravates me because once again, they do not do their due diligence. They just recite and put out the same blather, the same nonsense as what they take in. They're lemmings.

[00:05:55]All right? Don't be a lemming. Be a freethinker. All right. The next one is this plush toy. This plush toy really had me. I was looking at I'm like, "Damn, that don't look good. That does not look good. That looks like green screen." Trust me, I know. All right.

[00:06:10]I've been a photographer over 15 years.

[00:06:12]I've been doing editing for many, many years on episodic TV and all kinds of other stuff. Trust me, I know the back end of broadcasting and all the rest.

[00:06:21]Now, when I saw this, I'm like, hm, that's kind of strange. And what it was was the plush toy. The plush toy that they take with them in the rocket, they call it rise. It is basically a zerog indicator. What does that mean? That means that it will show you when you are in microgravity, when you could basically get out of your seat and start floating around. So the astronauts have this plush toy called Rise just kind of wandering around the spacecraft. Now this started not with us here in the US.

[00:06:51]It started with the Russians. When the Russians first went to space, they brought a plush toy like this. So once again, they knew when they were in microgravity, a zerog indicator. So what does this mean? When we see the writing that comes across this thing. Why is that happening? Now, when we looked at this conspiracy theory, they all relied on the exact same footage. The footage was from a third party that was broadcasting the live NASA event, just like I did with the JC Live show. All right. I broadcasted the live event and I did commentary over it. So there was like all kinds of like bullets that popped up. There is like information at the bottom, things popping up all over.

[00:07:32]How do I do that? Well, I do it using broadcasting software using luma keying and dynamic chroma keying. What does that mean?

[00:07:43]Luma meaning light. Luma keying basically keys off light, darks and lights. Chroma keying chroma color or hue keys off a specific hue or a specific color. That's why you have green screen and you have those weird looking blue screens that are really bright blue. That is chroma keying. So what happened is when you see rise it has a dark blue or a blue area and a green area and that's where we saw the words poking through. Why? because those words were underneath or laid on top of the screen during the broadcast. It was supposed to be on the front side.

[00:08:24]Instead, it ended up being on the back side of that specific element. The element being the screen or the live broadcast. So, it started poking through because they obviously didn't have luma keying going on. They had chroma keying.

[00:08:38]So, the letters came through on that blue area. This does not take rocket science, but you need to understand what is going on and then do your due diligence. I went and brought up the live feed from NASA and guess what?

[00:08:53]There's no words. There's no letters on Rise in that specific frame.

[00:09:01]Got it? The next one that I want to talk to you about, I'm going to use my screen for. Let's go ahead and pop over there real quick and then I'm going to tell you about it. All right. So, let's go ahead and resize this a little bit so we can see it a little bit closer. So, this is what everyone has been complaining about. So, what they're saying here is that this is the dark side of the moon as they call it and that there should be no light peeking through here. This is a solar eclipse in accordance to the craft that is going around it. So, we are inside the craft and they're taking a picture. The astronauts are taking a picture from the dark side of the moon.

[00:09:42]All right, so this should be completely black. Now, there's a couple of pieces to this puzzle. What they would say is, well, with the Apollo 8 mission, when they came by the moon, they didn't see anything. It was like a black hole. It was complete blackness. They couldn't see any sun peeking through. Why is that? Well, with Apollo 8, it came by at about 111 kilometers off the moon.

[00:10:05]Whereas with this mission, Artemis 2, it came in at 6,545 km. So you got 100 km to like over 6,000 km. It's the equivalent to going and walking up to a forest and looking at a tree and the tree is dead and saying that the entire forest is dead. And then if you take a wide angle lens or go back 6,000 km, you can see that there was one dead tree, but the forest is not dead.

[00:10:32]It's 100% alive. Same thing holds true here. They're so close to the moon that they couldn't see the sun peeking through the edges, but they couldn't see the edges. Does that make sense? The other thing here that I know that this is a real photo and this is not a fake CGI like some people say is right here.

[00:10:51]You see this right here? That is lens flare. Okay, that is something that is inevitable when you have this high contrast situation. Now, a CGI representation of this wouldn't have put this lens flare there. Now, before I address this crescent where we can actually see the dark side of the moon, let me dispel something for you really quick. We're going to unlearn something that you learned in school. All right?

[00:11:17]And I've already said it here two or three times. Dark side of the moon. When you went to school, you learned that there is a dark side of the moon and we can't see it. That is the dark side of the moon.

[00:11:29]relearn this today. Take that out of the wetw wear and throw that in the can because it is complete school nonsense.

[00:11:37]Things that they say are 100% true that you have to learn as fact. Later on, you find out that it's fallacy. That's just simply the way it works. Now, once again, there is no dark side of the moon. It's called the far side of the moon. Why is that? Because the moon doesn't have a dark side. Just because this side is dark, that doesn't mean it's always dark. The dark side of the moon is 100% lit in sunlight in cycles just like the front side. Why? Because of tidal lock.

[00:12:12]Now, let me explain this to you really, really quick. What is this title lock?

[00:12:18]I'm not going to get too deep into it or this video is going to get too long.

[00:12:21]Basically what this means is the turning or the rotation of the moon is the same speed as the rotation of the earth. They are rotating at the exact same speed.

[00:12:33]Tidal lock. Just think of it that way.

[00:12:36]Tide or tides. I'll tell you why. Right?

[00:12:39]They're locked. Meaning that you know what? Let's go ahead and use an analogy.

[00:12:43]You're sitting in this empty room and there's a chair in the middle of the room and there's someone sitting there and now you walk up to this person and you're looking at them. You're let's say five feet away. And now you continue to look at them as you walk around them 360°.

[00:12:59]You're keeping your eyes on them at all times. What does that mean? That means as they're looking at you going around and they're following you as you're going around, they're only seeing your front side. They're not seeing your backside, are they? The same thing holds true here with the moon and the earth.

[00:13:15]We're rotating. Even though we are now cycling around, we are also rotating or spinning on our axis at the same rate.

[00:13:25]So, we never get to see the back side or the far side of the moon ever.

[00:13:31]Period.

[00:13:33]It's not a dark side. We are on a 27.3 day cycle.

[00:13:39]Title lock. title cycle. Okay, I'll just give you a little bit of a little tidbit. I know this might get a little bit long, but I have to throw this in here just so you get an understanding. We are putting the brakes on the moon and the moon is putting the brakes on us. We are slowing the moon's rotational speed and the moon is slowing the rotational speed of earth equally.

[00:14:03]Meaning that as of today, every century, every 100 years, every century, the earth is slowing down by 1.7 milliseconds.

[00:14:16]I'll put the math over here. I did the math. This equates to basically in 1 billion years, a day cycle on Earth will not be 24 hours. A day cycle on Earth would be about 28.7 hours almost. Let's call it 29 hours.

[00:14:35]That will be one day cycle a billion years from now because we are once again slowing each other down, slowing that rotation. Not the solar rotation around the sun, but the spin on our individual axis. Does that make sense?

[00:14:53]So, let's get back here to this picture because this is really important. Okay.

[00:14:57]Why would this little crescent here be illuminated when we see the sun is now 100% behind the moon? If we look at this, there's less light at the top than there is on the bottom. So, I'm going to guesstimate the sun is probably right about here at this green spot at this moment. Why do we see this crescent right here? Why do we see this being lit? Technically, it's not possible if the sun is here, right? That's why they're saying this is fake. And the reason being is they're just simply inept. They don't take the time to learn something and research stuff. So what I did is I took the time at which this image was taken and I triangulated where the moon and the sun and the earth was at that specific time and guess where the earth was. Well, it was right here.

[00:15:51]Does that make sense?

[00:15:53]So instead of having sunshine, we have earth shine. So the reflection of the sun on the earth is shining onto the moon like that.

[00:16:06]Does that make sense? So just by looking at that now, you know exactly where the earth was in accordance to where the craft was and where the moon was. The triangulation, it's simple. This is not hard. You just have to once again just take the time to look at it and do a little bit of research. That's all. Not a lot, but just a little. Just once again, don't be a lemming and do not follow the crowd. Do not be one of those people that just walk up to the top of the mountain. Just keep on walking off the mountain because everyone else is.

[00:16:43]Be a freethinker.

[00:16:46]So, let's get into the last one. This one I absolutely love. This one I call the impossible earth photo that so many people said that this photo is absolutely impossible. So this is the image. This is the image that once again they say is absolutely impossible.

[00:17:04]There's no way for this to happen. Let me show you the things that they're stating or why they're stating it. And I understand it. I get it. So they're pointing out that down here at the bottom there's a very bright sickle that's kind of poking through. That means that the sun would be right about here right now. That would make sense.

[00:17:24]Slightly offaxis. So you can kind of see the sun kind of poking through here.

[00:17:29]Down here at the bottom we can see the aurora. Up at the top we can also see the aurora borealis. Now what they're saying here is since the sun is behind the earth that means that this front side front-facing to the astronauts should be 100% black.

[00:17:49]Now that is a factual statement because if you were to shoot this image with a camera on automatic mode or as I call it automatic mode, what it will do is it would find the brightest portion of the image and the darkest portion of the image and then try to figure out something in the middle of that and expose for the bright portion because it doesn't want to lose any data in the brightness and it doesn't want to lose any data in the darkness. So it finds that middle ground. So what would happen was is the front of the earth here would be extremely dark either completely dark or very very dark where you can barely see anything because that brightness is poking through from the sun. Does that make sense? Okay. Now the things that they were also pointing out is this is a nighttime shot. This is not a daytime shot as it seems to be in the image. Why do they say that? If we zoom in here, we could see there's lights on on the coast here. Do you see this? There's lights everywhere. All of these dots are lights. These are from cities. Okay? All of the dots that you see, all this brightness, all these dots, these are from cities besides this dot over here.

[00:19:07]And I'll get into that in just a second.

[00:19:09]All right? So, this is why they're saying that because this is actually a night shot and not a day shot. They have it right. This is a night shot. But how is it a night shot? So what did I do? I went into doing my due diligence and I found the actual original image and I pulled the metadata from it.

[00:19:31]So let me go ahead and show this to you.

[00:19:33]All right? Because now you'll understand it. This is the metadata from that image. And you can see it's art 002e whatever. It's the exact same image.

[00:19:43]This is the data that gets put on to the image when you take the picture. Now, what do we see here that's important?

[00:19:50]Well, number one, we can see that the width and the height are massive. This is a full-frame sensor, and as we can see, it's a Nikon D5 that took the image. We could also see the time and date. We can see it was on the 26th on 43, that's April 3rd, at midnight or what is it? 27 minutes after midnight.

[00:20:10]That's when it was taken. Now the holy trinity as a photographer this is what we use to expose everything when we do it manually and this is also important.

[00:20:20]Do you see down here it says exposure program manual. This was not shot automatically. It was shot on manual mode. The astronaut actually pointed it and dialed it in to exactly how they wanted it. Also down here you see focal length 22 mm. That will come into play in just a second. So up here, the holy trinity, we have exposure time, we have aperture, and we have ISO. ISO is basically, let's say, the volume on your audio. When you turn your volume up, things get louder, things get brighter, but there's also more noise involved. If you get too loud, there's a lot of squelching. There's a lot of noise, right? So, when you turn the gain up, the ISO up, it gets noisier. And as I will show you in the image, there's a lot of noise. There's a lot of pixelization. That is noise because the ISO is extremely high. Then we can see aperture value. That aperture is how big the hole is on the inside of the lens.

[00:21:24]Is it really tiny or is it really big?

[00:21:27]The lower the number, the bigger the hole. So if you were to shoot at f32, it's a tiny tiny hole. If you're shooting at f4, it's a big hole. just about the maximum size of this lens, I believe. And then finally, here we have exposure time, which is shot at one quarter of a second. That's pretty slow.

[00:21:45]Now, before I go any further, let me just explain something to you. As a professional photographer doing this for a couple of decades, I can shoot manual in this room, and I can look around and know how much light I have. And this will probably be maybe with a full-frame camera, let's say ISO, 1600, maybe f4.5, and maybe a shutter speed of an eighth, somewhere around there, and I would get a pretty decent image. All right.

[00:22:14]Now, did you hear what I said? ISO600.

[00:22:19]This image, let me get back to it, is shot not at 1600 ISO. It shot at 51,200.

[00:22:29]51,200.

[00:22:33]So, think about turning the gain knob up. That's why you have all of this these little artifacts, all of this noise. If we zoom in here, do you see all this? It looks like dust. This isn't dust. This is noise. This is noise. You see all these little dots? Not the stars, the bright ones, but all of the other specks. This is noise. Look at the image. Look at the aurora borealis. You see all the little specks? All those little dots. This is noise. All right.

[00:23:05]And the reason it's noise is because it's shot at such a high ISO. When you do that and you shoot this manually, you can make something that is nighttime turn to daytime.

[00:23:21]And that's what happened here because he exposed not for the bright sunlight coming out from behind. He exposed for the earth, the very little light that was being cast on it. And he had to do so by cranking that ISO up all the way up to 51,200.

[00:23:40]So that is why we have turned night into day. That's why this is actually a night shot and not a day shot. Now, there's a couple of things here that point out this to be real and not nonsense. Also, if we look in the dead center here, what do we see? We see this spot right here.

[00:24:02]What is that? That is a reflection from the inside of the craft on the window. We could see the window right here going like around like this.

[00:24:16]We can see this bottom piece and we can see this coming up like this. There's your window. This tells me that this image was shot spur of the moment. It wasn't set up.

[00:24:27]Now, why do I say that? This is really important because this little flare that we see, this lens flare that's right there, which is obviously equipment behind the photographer that's being reflected off this window, right?

[00:24:43]wouldn't be there if it was set up properly. Now, I'm going to bring over an image on how it would normally be set up. Let me go ahead and make this larger so you can see it a little bit better.

[00:24:53]You see this? This is how it would normally be set up if it was not spurof the- moment. So, if we look at this image, we could see like this bag that's over the window. You see this blue bag?

[00:25:07]All right. And then it goes wraps around the lens right here. So, what this does is it blocks out all light from within the cabin and only allows the light coming through the lens to be shown on back here on the sensor. Does that make sense? So, if this wasn't a spur-of-the- moment image, they would have bagged it just like you see here, so that you wouldn't have that reflection, you wouldn't have the milkiness. Let me go ahead and get rid of this so we can see the original image again. You wouldn't have that milkiness that goes around here. That's that reflection that we see here in the middle on the glass. You wouldn't have any of that. It would be 100% deep, rich blackness in the blacks.

[00:25:55]You wouldn't have any of this little dots and stuff, okay? It wouldn't be there. It would just be a much higher contrast. So, as we can see, this is a real image. It is not fake. And not only is it not fake, it was shot spur of the moment. So anyways guys, I hope you found this interesting. I wanted to kind of debunk some of this nonsense because when I listen to it, it kind of makes me angry and it kind of makes me sad that people actually believe such nonsense that really do not have the wherewithal, do not have the ability to discern what is real and what is not. We're not talking about AI playing here. I didn't even get into some of these conspiracies where they would just literally take a shot of the planet from Apollo 8 and then do a little bit of grading on it and then say that it's a new image from NASA's Aremis 2, which it isn't. Okay?

[00:26:54]And say, "Oh, look. It's the exact same image." And they would go and put they just made it themselves. Whereas if you would just simply take the time to go into the Aremis mission library where you can see all the images taken, that image doesn't exist anywhere. Why?

[00:27:08]Because it was from Apollo. So all of this kind of stuff, there's a lot of other things where you see green screens of people and people are floating around that they just made it. And if you look really closely, there'll be people with headphones on and like one headphone is sticking out like this and the other one is normal. It's like, "Oh, well that headphone doesn't look right." No, because AI screwed it up.

[00:27:31]All right, be discerning. Take the time.

[00:27:35]Don't be a lemming. For the love of God, don't be a lemming. All right, just I hope that you got something out of this.

[00:27:42]I hope you found it interesting. I hope there's some recalibration of wetw wear even when it comes to the idea of the dark side of the moon where it's simply not.

[00:27:53]It is just the far side and it gets as much light as our side.

[00:27:59]When we see a new moon, when it's completely black and you just got a little sickle, understand the far side is fully lit. It's being sundrenched.

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