“The moon landing was staged, but Stanley Kubrick demanded to shoot on location.”
Could we have had Beast Wars in the 60s?
Submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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kamen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
feck_it@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Gee , think about all the logistics that goes into this obvious stage ~on the location~
kurikai@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Upvote for Beastwars
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t get to talk about Beast Wars enough these days.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Beast Wars used to be great.
It still is, but it used to be too.
Fleshtrap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Beast Wars was so dope.
spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think it was staged or something but if I look at 2001: A Space Odyssey, I really am fascinated by the good visual effects, so the raw filming could probably have been done, but most Nasa documents of that time are online and there is no possiblity everything would have been fake.
Thassar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Nah, the technology to fake the moon landing straight up didn’t exist in the 60s. There’s a really good video on youtube that goes over it but I can’t seem to find it right now. But basically, even though there were some nice techniques to make special effects for movies, they wouldn’t have worked for faking an actual moon landing.
TheMonkeyLord@lemm.ee 11 months ago
For some reason, to me at least, there is a good amount of irony in this. Almost like because the technology and techniques to replicate a convincing moon landing weren’t around they just went there instead lol
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Chadsalot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well yeah but that’s just the CGI that’s available to the public. Everyone knows the governments been using holograms since the 60s. Wake up.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why holograms in the '60s? Didn’t you hear about the experimental hallucinogen laced AC units?
Misconduct@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No but are they still accepting applications to that one or…?
evilthecat13@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was supposedly faked on a closed film set.
I know I’m splitting hairs here, but the distinction is enormous 😅
Thassar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Actually, the moon landing was faked but for realism purposes they filmed it on location.
Misconduct@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everything is coming together
ZAX2717@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean the CGI was awesome at the time, I was also 7 so take that with a grain of salt.
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, I was around the same age. It was high tech!
JakenVeina@lemm.ee 11 months ago
pbs.org/…/apollo-landing-footage-would-have-been-…
Unironically, this is actually my favorite take on the moon landing conspiracy. The technology to fake the footage and photos we got simply didn’t exist at the time.
some_guy@kbin.social 11 months ago
My take is that they hired Kubrick to make the footage but he insisted on shooting it on-location.
Enasni@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You one of those crazy people who believes in the moon‽
crowbar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Wow a wild interrobang appeared!
gaybear@lemmy.world 11 months ago
fun fact, there’s an official render of dinobot (beastwars character) where he has a dick
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
… proof?
gaybear@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“dirk dinobot”
Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Wow that intro brings back memories.
Kind of surprised it only went 3 seasons/55 episodes, seemed popular at the time.
z500@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There was also two seasons of Beast Machines, but it wasn’t quite the same.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
I do not get it. Why 1996? What’s relationship of that date with the moon landings?
anewbeginning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If in 1996 cgi was shit in the 60s it would never be better than this. In reality it didn’t even exist.
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jurassic Park was '94 ;)
Dangdoggo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah but the 3D effects in Jurassic Park were made by two passionate developers who basically invented rigging to make those sequences and went totally over budget and did it without the lighting tech we have today. Which is to say, they hand crafted each UV. That technique would never be used today but the results speak for themselves
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
but maybe Neil Armstrong was also very dedicated?
Tetra@kbin.social 11 months ago
Well, that's just prime...
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, Apollo 13 the movie literally came out the year prior so we had the ability to depict the moon landing with CGI in the 90s.
fidodo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most of that movie was done with practical effects and miniatures. The CGI was relatively minimal since it was so weak back then.
saucyloggins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s because the government has had tech way beyond even what we have today. They just peace-meal it out to us bro. They’ve been coordinating mass propaganda against us 1984 style since like. Before 1984.
Also. The government is so incompetent they can’t provide health care better than private insurance companies. Obviously.
Alvinum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They won’t provide or create the framework for proper health care in the US because private health care is a very effective extortion scheme that can pay for the laws they want.
And the pharma companies like it like that.
"Oh, you like living? Too bad you live in the US, where we will charge you 10x what everyone else in the world pays for the insilin you need to survive. Pay up or die.
fortune.com/2023/01/13/…/amp/
There is a reason the US has the most expensive health care system in the world, while the health care system quality using objective criteria, it’s usually around rank 40-60, below practically western countries, below cuba and comparable to Armenia or Morocco.
statista.com/…/health-index-of-countries-worldwid…
…wikipedia.org/…/World_Health_Organization_rankin…
The US is also basically the only industrialized country where medical bankruptcy is a thing.
CodingSquirrel@kbin.social 11 months ago
You're not wrong, but I think the above poster was sarcastically pointing out that people who believe that the government is highly coordinated and competent don't trust the government to run healthcare because it's too uncoordinated and incompetent. Both incredibly strong and also laughably weak.
Entropywins@kbin.social 11 months ago
Sounds reasonable... you've got my vote