I just wanted to reply to this post - https://steemit.com/science/@mobbs/flat-earth-the-end-debate created by @mobbs but then my reply started to be quite long to I decided to create entirely new post. Here it is!

Major question

Can NASA pictures be taken seriously as facts or are they just a (deceiving) art at best? Let's do some basic analysis to find out.

All these pictures were taken TODAY and ONLY from NASA official pages - links provided and I just did basic analysis so you can see for yourself as it requires not much time or special skills. There is lot deception on the internet so it's very valuable when you can test things for yourself. All what I did you can do as well. NASA is presenting images over time (almost no videos - who could wonder - just few poor CGI animations) of space - Moon, Earth, etc. Presenting these images as the reality without strong statements that they are composites, CGI or strongly edited and manipulated is very harmful as you can see because it partially blocks you from entering alternative research and creates false impression of reality around us. Sometimes, after pressure and independent research they admit that images are not genuine reality but composites created by various methods. So is it reality or fiction? Let's put some of these most interesting images to test.

Prerequisites

• image editor (Photoshop, Gimp, ...)
• internet access to NASA page

Steps

• download image
• open it in image editor and play with some color features like Adjusting Color Curves to find out hidden flaws and image manipulation and traces of composing.

Here you have some proof directly from NASA page, let's play and try find some differences, LOL.

• newer the images have more CGI look
• Moon terrain seems quite different and more artificial on newer pictures
• Earth seems much less realistic on 2015 image
• the oldest (1966) image looks most reliable from all of those due to lack of details and lack of CGI-feel

1966 First View of Earth From Moon - NASA link

1968 Apollo 8 Christmass at the Moon - NASA link

2015 New High-Resolution Image - NASA link

Analysis

And now some simple analysis based on using color curves adjustment to find normally invisible traces of image manipulation. You see, in space there is radiation visible on the photo material or CCD sensor, it's not just a black area as you can see on images images below. You can also see pasted rectangular areas which means that images are composites of multiple images (this time small "Earth" is pasted). And also you can see black areas are that is simply removal of the original content which was there before. It is just a cutout elements put here and there. But check it for yourself.

2009 - From the Moon to the Earth

NASA link

Below you can see how fabricated the image is

Apollo 17 Astronaut Moon Flag

NASA link

Below you can see magnified rectangular place where the image of "the Earth" is pasted. Note again, there is no radiation captured.

NASA images without traces of previously described manipulation

(this doesn't mean they are not also fabricated but it's just not detectable by used analysis)

And now how it looks when there are not traces of such a kind of image manipulation (the images below are also from NASA). So what, is there radiation captured on CCD or photo material or not in space? NASA, you should decide. I will answer it for yourself. Of course there is, therefore these images look more reliable and might be even real - or not. My guess is not because once they fabricate so much other stuff, there is high probability they fabricated also the rest.

Conclusion

The observed NASA pictures (especially those showing Moon, Earth and an astronaut(s) on one picture) are unreliable and can be easily taken as a fantasy art at best due to strong image manipulation based even on this simple analysis. If some picture are proven to be fabricated, none can be actually trusted by default. I regret all the time when I was younger and took these pictures seriously - I should have rather watch other Disney cartoons - they were at least funny (sometimes) even though they were partially created by the same kind of free-masonic graphic designers. Important bottom line also is that NASA, in 50 years, hasn't provided any reliable image (and of course forget about any non-trivial video which is much more difficult to fabricate) of whole Earth from space and so we really don't know how Earth looks like from distance allowing a complete Earth observation. Sad fact is we don't have not even one real proof of the Earth shape and rotation is as they indoctrinated us since our very youth. Whatever created and published these days must be very critically reviewed these days due to to technology advancements in computer graphics - simply said, it is already possible to create computer graphics that human eye cannot discern from a real picture but there can be some other flaws (like break of physics, etc.). Only very long and complex video recording would be still hard to fake.

This conclusion was based on simple analysis everyone can replicate (just by using the official NASA images and simple graphics editor). I encourage you to make your own conclusion and don't be afraid to deny official theories when evidence supporting them is obviously fabricated. Great job NASA considering your total budget consumed over 500 billion of USD from tax payers money so far.

If you want my strong opinion based on hundreds of supporting facts (not listed in this post), there it is: I claim that NASA as organization partially lying and deceiving and covering their real agenda, partially showing the truth. That's worst possible combination as it's most deceiving. There are people inside NASA who know they are producing fraud and there are people who don't (due to split of assignments) and some people (lower-rank) who might even create some useful inventions and provide useful services. Anyway the group of high-ranked liars are enemy of the people and they are assigned by evil people under evil forces using tax payers money. Their agenda is nothing smaller than to capture your mindset and give you false perspective for your life (in certain sense to steal your soul). But I declare their deception is almost over and it will go into devastation thanks to God in Jesus name.

All right, that's all for today. Have fun and don't get frustrated because that would be bad response. Feel free to expose all their trash but don't be hostile to them, they are already in pretty bad situation due to their pathetic agenda.