'In a similar way, the transit time through the Van Allen radiation belt right at the beginning of the Apollo voyages was incredibly short. From a science point of view, as long as you walk across quite quickly, looking at the thermal conductivity of your feet, you are not going to have enough thermal energy going into the soles of your feet to burn you. 'If you’ve ever done firewalking, you’ll know the one thing you don’t do is linger around in the middle of the firepit. If that is the case, how did the Apollo astronauts travel through the Van Allen radiation belt and out of Earth's orbit unharmed? Surely the amount of radiation would have killed them? Doesn't this prove that the Moon landings were a hoax? Just like the images from Apollo 11, the shadows will not be parallel. Go outside when the Sun is low in the sky and see this effect for yourself. Artists have been using this for centuries.'

If you are trying to reduce on to a two-dimensional plane a three-dimensional situation, you can make lines do all sorts of weird things. 'You have all seen this phenomenon yourself, where, because of perspective, parallel lines appear to be non-parallel. 'This is on the surface of the Moon, but we can reproduce this effect any time we want to on Earth,' Prof Ojha explains. Surely if the Sun were the only light source, then the shadows should be parallel? Doesn't this prove that the whole scene was mocked up in a studio, with multiple light sources creating different shadow patterns? This image has been taken as proof by conspiracy theorists that the Moon landings were faked. Photograph taken by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 Moon landing (NASA)

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