RE: Moon Landing: Fake or Real?
June 14, 2014 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2014 at 8:51 pm by Cyberman.)
(June 14, 2014 at 3:49 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: How hard could it be to set up a lunar stage in a warehouse for black and white televisions?
For a static effects shot like that one, not very hard at all.
For an accurate simulation of the lunar surface, good enough to stand up to expert scrutiny, large enough to give the correct depth of field yet easy enough to light with a single light source simulating the Sun, with the correct level of vacuum achievable only in decompression chambers, thus requiring one to be built large enough to accomodate the set and thus requiring technology far in advance of boring old spaceflight (and incidentally as impossible in the sixties/seventies as it is today), and capable of being fitted into an aircraft larger than any ever built so as to achieve the correct one-sixth gravity, as the Vomit Comet is able to do for about fifteen second bursts, and to be able to keep even one person from blabbing about any part of this for forty years and counting - well, you tell me. At this stage, even Goddidit is a more plausible answer.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'