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Watchmen: they need my help

Excitement builds for the Watchmen movie release as producers unveil intriguing images blending fiction with Neil Armstrong's Moon landing.

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A lot of people are getting pretty fired up about the Watchmen movie coming out any year now. This movie is based on the epic superhero graphic novel (comic book series to you) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I read it, and it's pretty good. I had some problems with the ending, but I'll save my comments for when the movie comes out. Anyway, a new image was just released by the producers of the movie, and it shows a picture of Neil Armstrong on the Moon... taken by Dr. Manhattan, an ex-human who, through an atomic accident, became a glowing blue being of pure energy:

Pretty cool, eh? Yeah, but the debunker in me just has to point something out... See the out-of-focus Earth on the left side of the picture? From the Moon, the Earth is about 2 degrees across, roughly four times the size of the ...

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