Submitted 9 hours ago by titty_wizard@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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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?
But it didn’t stay kept. We’re talking about it now and it’s synonymous with famous conspiracy theories.
This is one of my fave images of all time
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.
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.
Or it was his Moon travels which made him hate travel. Either one works for me.
Everyone talks about the fake landing but nobody ever talks about the fake sequel they released four months later
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.
The wanted to fake a moon landing and after analyzing cost they conclude that the cheapest option was to film on location.
After high rocket the costs were mostly catering
mmm, tang…
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.
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.”
Special effects in late 60s:
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2001 has very good effects
Of course it does. It’s made by that guy who faked the moon landing and then beat up Olive Oyl
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.
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.
If dino DNA existed in amber mosquitos in 93, I wonder if cloning or CGI would’ve been cheaper
🦅🔥BEAST WARS🔥🦖
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…
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.
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.
I thought that was under Cheyenne Mountain?
Lol, people still believe in the moon.
I came for transforming monke robots, but what I got was the most kino character death out of all children’s cartoons.
People are strange
when you’re a stranger
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 21 minutes ago
I can only assume you meant faking the moon landing was, like this shit, rad as hell!