Techno-nerd wrote:
Counter of Framings wrote:
We can count frames, but we are dependent on NASA to have told FPS truth to YouTube (Google) upload.
This isn't that difficult. Just go to the watchframebyframe and click on the Step Forward. If you have the wrong FPS, it will just stall ever frame or so (or skip if you are too low). But as said, you have to trust NASA is telling the FPS truth, or at least whoever copied it over to YouTube.
For additional evidence, you can see how the hammer bounces at its speed.
It's almost like the anti-hoax believers don't want to find the data, even though it's right b4 them.
@ 30FPS (speed), the hammer might maybe move at (harder to tell with feather) at 59.46s.
But the lack of more movement at 59.49s makes it hard to say (there is glare change at the right side, so this really is a different frame).
I think 59.53s is the most likely frame of departure. By the next frame 59.56s the hammer has gone slightly down, and it seems the feather too. But it could be actually later (horizontal movement of hands prior to release).
Then we can count frames. One-by-one, we reach ground contact at 1:00.73s or 36 frames later. That's 1.2s, leading to shoulder height of only 1.17m, much shorter than expected. The astronaut holds the pose for an extended time period, if that's how they spliced in the 0.5x part with normal speed. The hammer topples over, but it's too hard to tell if this is "normal" in g/6 speed.
Conclusion, either NASA lied and this was originally less than 30 FPS, or the astronaut is much shorter than expected. Or the whole thing is a HOAX.