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  • mappe@moplemmy.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I heard they got Stanley Kubrick to fake the landing, but he was such a stickler for accuracy he got them to actually go to the moon to film it.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Everyone talks about the fake landing but nobody ever talks about the fake sequel they released four months later

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not sure how he was in 1969(?) but by the time he made Full Metal Jacket in the 1980s(?) he was so afraid of flying, he had palm trees brought in to England rather than shoot on location in Vietnam. Which is why all the palm trees in that movie look dead as hell. So I’m guessing he would not have gone to the moon, but would have had moon craters brought to him. Which means someone would have had to go to the moon to get them. Therefore, we went to the moon. Checkmate atheists.

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      • mappe@moplemmy.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Or it was his Moon travels which made him hate travel. Either one works for me.

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      • mobyduck648@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Which is why all the palm trees in that movie look dead as hell.

        Should have waited a few decades, after this summer I’m sure Britain can support palm trees!

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  • negativenull@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Special effects in late 60s:
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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      2001 has very good effects

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      • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Of course it does. It’s made by that guy who faked the moon landing and then beat up Olive Oyl

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      dude you just ain’t seen many aliens

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is one of my fave images of all time

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    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A kiwi bird using a parachute??? Holy fuck, how did they do it?!?

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      • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They just strapped a parachute to a real kiwi, chucked it out of a plane and took a photo

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Consider my mind thoroughly boggled

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      • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Alright, I’ve noted you down as boggled 👍

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The wanted to fake a moon landing and after analyzing cost they conclude that the cheapest option was to film on location.

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    • Brimstone@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      After high rocket the costs were mostly catering

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        mmm, tang…

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    CGI in 1982 was better:

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    • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Most people I’ve brought it up to think the moon landing was fake. I usually point out a few examples to explain away the their arguments. Also I add that thinking it was fake is a huge slap in the face to all the skilled people who made it happen.

    I feel like I’m going crazy. But everything I’ve looked up are credible sources, unlike some stupid YouTuber pointing to the the flag and saying “there’s no wind on the moon, how do you explain that sheep!”

    They put a fucking pole through the top of the flag to keep it straight, because they also realize there was no fucking wind. A kindergarten could work out how to do that.

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The real cover-up about the flag is so much more fun. The astronauts were sworn to secrecy for decades.

      Then decades later, some scientists were taking high resolution photos of the moon that weren’t quite good enough to see the flags themselves but did show the shadows of them. But they couldn’t see a shadow for the Apollo 11 flag, and then NASA had to come clean.

      When they took off from the Moon, Buzz Aldrin saw the thrust of the spacecraft blow the flag over. When he told NASA about it in the debriefing they told him “you can never tell anyone this.”

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      • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Best argument I’ve heard is that the Soviets never denied it happened. Same with the nazis and the Holocaust.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We measure the distance of the moon every month by laser, targeting a mirror array on the moon.

      I watched a documentary, Behind the Curve, about flat earthers who drove to the NASA space center to explain how everything was fake. On the drive, you can clearly see them using GPS for directions in their car.

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  • BlindPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Opinions of the guy aside, I recall it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who made the argument that it simply is cheaper and easier to go to the moon than to fake it and maintain the coverup.

    Like, we can’t keep secrets for shit, but that’s the one that stays kept?

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They are already claiming that the Artemis mission was fake due to cuts between the camera shots on the livestream ಥ_ಥ

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        but artemis was fake. it didn’t grow on a tree. we had to build it.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The whole thing was a PR exercise to get one over on the Russians. Why not spend 5% more for a backup strategy to “document” the event

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But it didn’t stay kept. We’re talking about it now and it’s synonymous with famous conspiracy theories.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    CGI in 1988.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now imagine how CGI was when they flew to the moon in 1969!

    The best argument against the moon landings being fake is the sheer amount of people involved in the Apollo project. Estimates go up to 400’000 people (with different levels of involvement). If it had all been fake, someone would have blabbed by now.

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    • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Actually the best argument would be that the Soviets didn’t raise holy hell about it being fake.

      Apollo 11 was able to be tracked by radio the entire trip to the moon. The radio transmissions and The television broadcast was unencrypted over plain radio. I’m sure the Soviets were able to verify the entire mission in real time. If there was even a hint that the moon landing was fake, the Soviets would have been throwing it in the US’s face the instant it happened.

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      • kossa@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You don’t think your conspiracies big enough. Obviously the Soviet Union was in on it, something, something New World Order. Nobody knows what’s to be gained for whom, but that is what conspiracy theories are made of.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Soviet probes were on the surface the same week Apollo 11 landed.

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      • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That is one of the other verifications, indeed.

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    • thefloweracidic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One of my favorite quotes is “The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead”, from some random western movie, but yes people love to blab.

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      • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And you cannot deny the truth of that statement. I know that quote differently, btw: “Two can keep a secret, if one of them us dead.”, and I think that was from “Yes, Minister!” 😃

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Now imagine how CGI was when they flew to the moon in 1969!

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But someone has blabbed, why do you think it’s a conspiracy /s

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    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They could basically just draw unshaded geometric shapes back then lmao

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  • lyrial@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    CGI in 1991:

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    • trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Jurassic Park came out in 1993 (can’t help but use this as a point of reference), but this does look consistent with lower budget stuff, like that Canadian cartoon Reboot. Anyone else remember that one?

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s not that it’s low budget, it’s that it was fully CGI. It was a pioneer in 3d animation.

        Also this is from Transformers and it is also from the same Vancouver studio.

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      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Reboot was great. Captain capacitor retired to run a torrent site.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s just a psyop, NASA and the CIA were hiding some of the world’s leading stable diffusion models for the time in a secret underground Data center somewhere in the Nevada desert.

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    • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought that was under Cheyenne Mountain?

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      • RustyShackleford@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, you’re probably thinking of the Stargate project.

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  • thefloweracidic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can’t remember where I heard this or of it is true, but apparently it would have cost significantly more money to deceive the public with a fake moon landing than it would have been to fund the mission. When I think about the effort they would have put behind this ruse it makes sense as I’m sure the media was all over the event and the fakery wouldn’t have been isolated to a single broadcast.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The thing is fake moon landing people are also flat earthers and shit. To them, the money isn’t the important part, it’s the hiding of some sort of special knowledge. When you say it would cost more that implies that there’s an option that costs less which is possible in the first place.

      To them, there’s always another layer of justification they can add. Russia would have said something? Well, you see, the Russia/USA beef is manufactured by a secret cabal of, I dunno, Freemasons. It would have been leaked? Don’t worry, everyone involved was replaced by obidient clones.

      With a good editor, some conspiracy theorists could be decent writers if they weren’t using their creativity to be insane.

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    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Adam Ruins Everything had a similar claim.

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  • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Counter point - Actually good CGI in 1993:

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    • olejellylegs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think you’re wrong.

      Unless the t-rex was running it was a giant physical model. Likely in this short zero to little cg was used. Hell I have the open matte version of the film where only digital shots are cropped, this one ain’t.

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      • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Cool, since you have that version of the film I’m sure you’ll be willing to share it?

        I’m not trying to say the moon landing was fake, for fuck sake. I was calling out the OP using an example of trash CGI when much better was certainly possible.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If dino DNA existed in amber mosquitos in 93, I wonder if cloning or CGI would’ve been cheaper

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have had some sucess pointing out the USSR was tracking it and would love nothing more than to call out the US if they had faked it.

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  • StellarExtract@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    🦅🔥BEAST WARS🔥🦖

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    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Beasties in Canada. I guess they didn’t like “wars” in the title of a kids show? But we got an American station too, so when we’d watch it in Ontario it’d be Beasties, and then we’d flip the channel and it’d be Beast Wars coming out of Buffalo. As far as I know everything else was the same, or at least I never noticed anything…

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      • StrutTower@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Did they change the name in the intro song as well? Beasties just doesn’t sounds as cool.

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    • Ydna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What is a warrior without a weapon?

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So what you’re saying is they not only faked the moon landing, they also kept these amazing computer graphics from us gamers all this time?

    Truly monstrous.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They had thousands of women in offices ray tracing with pencils and paper.

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  • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I came for transforming monke robots, but what I got was the most kino character death out of all children’s cartoons.

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Moon landing was staged, but Kubrick insisted on shooting on location.

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  • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t think it was fake at all, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a denier say it was cgi. They say it’s a stage.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      on the moon

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image Am I a joke to you?!

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember when I was in kindergarten and the teacher was cool for reminding us that Beast Wars is coming up soon in couple of hours, so we could have something to look forward to going home!

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lol, people still believe in the moon.

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  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Actually the second moon turned out not to be a moon at all, it was a red herring and it was Earth All Along

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  • CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s why NASA conveniently lost all the video footage of the moon landing event, because they know we would laugh at how fake it looks if we could see it today.

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  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    MAXIMIZE !!

    TERRORIZE !!

    then there was Waspinator: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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  • pet1t@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes but the government had much better CGI that wasn’t available to the public yet, duh

    /s obligatory

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Whole USA is fake. Columbus never discovered new continent he just faked it for money

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  • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The moon landing is easier to think of as faked now as we only get the highlights. Landing, flag and a few bounces. The actual moonwalk was a couple hours. They where setting up stuff, getting samples. Buzz was running around for some reason. People at the time had live evidence and where able to watch it at home.The only thing they didn’t have was chat distracting them and asking questions that had already been answered.

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  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can only assume you meant faking the moon landing was, like this shit, rad as hell!

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