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.
I can only assume you meant faking the moon landing was, like this shit, rad as hell!
This is one of my fave images of all time
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.
CGI in 1991:
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?
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 from the same Vancouver studio.
🦅🔥BEAST WARS🔥🦖
What is a warrior without a weapon?
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…
Most people I’ve brought the moon landing 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.”
Counter point - Actually good CGI in 1993:
The entire moon is just CGI. Prove me wrong, go there and live stream from the moon to show you can really stand on it. I bet you won’t.
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.
Additional counterpoint: granddad worked on Apollo and if it was all fake, lots of real world shit I’ve personally experienced wouldn’t make sense. Production and Design awards, call backs during Apollo 13, the secrecy etc…
Cool, since you have that version of the film I’m sure you’ll be willing to share it? I’ve seen 2 matte versions, but none like you’re describing.
You don’t seem to understand what this sub is for. Since your uncle worked for Nintendo, I’m sure you know the moon landing took place a few years before OPs example of awful CGI from 1996. I argued that much better CGI existed in 1993. That’s still at least two years off from the moon landing.
Everyone is making fun of people who claim it was faked. I’m glad your cousin was the King of Space. That’s cool. I missed it by 3 space votes in the last space election. I’m jealous.
Yup, that’s just the movie without the matte. Like all versions of the movie, it has the CGI scenes present. He said he has a version where those aren’t there, or the scenes containing CGI are notably cropped compared to the others. I’d love to see that.
Honestly, while the cgi shown is trash, it really isn’t all that bad considering what they had at the time for a kid’s show. They were producing a 30 minute episode a week on a budget that was surely a pittance, much less than 1/4 I’m sure, of a 2 hour film that we would consider really good at the time.
I didn’t mean to insult your show, I just don’t see why anyone would have been watching that when way more awesome things like Gargoyles existed at the same time.
Ha! I loved beast wars, but yes, there were a great many much better shows… but also as a nerdy kid with only rabbit ears and a once every two weeks trip to the library, I watched whatever I could.
If dino DNA existed in amber mosquitos in 93, I wonder if cloning or CGI would’ve been cheaper
They wanted to fake a moon landing and after analyzing cost they concluded that the cheapest option was to film on location.
After the big rocket the costs were mostly catering
mmm, tang…
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.
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
CGI in 1982 was better:
Special effects in late 60s:
2001: A Space Odyssey 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
Wait what’s the Olive Oyl story?
They’re referring to Kubrick’s renowned intense treatment of his actors to evoke the emotions he wants to see, particularly Shelly Duvall in The Shining, who also played Olive Oyl in the live-action Popeye movie.
He kept Shelly Duvall terrified for almost that entire movie
Bluto?
Lol, people still believe in the moon.
