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Square image with a dark background, with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket depicted horizontally in the center. Above the rocket, white text reads, “the moon landing was staged?” Below the rocket, more white text reads “yeah that’s how all orbital rockets fucking work dude”
Even SSTO has the single stage. To orbit.
I looked into this a long time ago, it would’ve been more expensive to fake it than it was to just do it.
We would’ve needed to somehow convince Russia to lie on our behalf. We would’ve needed to convince the dictatorship of australia to also lie on our behalf.
The rooskies came out and said we beat them to it, and the aussies claimed they recived the camera feed and the audio feed from space and then echoed it to their TV network
That Mitchell and Webb sketch where they discuss faking the moonlanding to save money, and the only real savings was on catering…
Yes, exactly. In general the whole notion and everything they claim is fucking idiotic from start to finish. Outright lies, misunderstandings, misrepresented partial truths, etc.
Those two friends of mine aren’t “gunpowder inventors” as we Finns tend to express it, ie. they’re… well, calling them stupid would be a bit too harsh, but they’re definitely not smart. I’m not surprised in the least that they fell down that rabbit hole, but fuck does it get tiring.
I too feel like I’m missing context on a joke here.
This was before the fateful Whitlam dismissal by the monarchy / potentially the CIA.
By vice regal, not regal. It was the governor general that dismissed the Whitlam government, not the monarchy
Right? It was the Cold fucking War, why would the Czar of Russia or whoever was in charge work with the US on the US’ propaganda against Russia?
Cold fucking War
Czar of Russia
The Czar wasn’t around during the Cold War for … reasons.
Landing on the moon was such a huge PR event. Everything that could be controlled was controlled.
What if a backup TV broadcast was created in case of broadcast equipment failure?
Obligatory Mitchell & Webb
Thanks to OP for reminding me to check my staging
I still prescribe to the theory that we tried to fake the moon landing, but Stanley Kubrick being a perfectionist kept insisting they shoot on location prompting us to do it for real anyway.
How many times are people going to post this nonsense?
Kubrick notoriously hated filming on location.
He of course did have NASA send astronauts to the moon to shoot background and reference pictures, he was a perfectionist, after all, but the official landing was filmed in Shepperton, England.
Also, no one’s going to believe this unless you tell them about the practically unique Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens NASA gave him as payment, which allowed him to shoot the candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon.
What is so special about this lens?
Why can’t other manufacturers create something similar?
It’s one of the largest relative aperture lenses in the history of photography, which means it can allow cameras to shoot in very low light. It was designed and made specifically for the NASA Apollo lunar program to photograph areas of the moon not lit by the sun.
I suppose other manufacturers could make it (though Zeiss sort of is the lens company), and some have made similar or even faster lenses, but it probably would be very expensive and there’s not much of a market for it.
The moon landing wasn’t staged, the launch was…
The lander did have a stage separation though, It left the landing gear and motor on the moon, and the accent stage took it back into lunar orbit.
