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As it happened. At our little country school, there was great deal of effort to set enough televisions so we could watch the event live. What I find amusing wa

As it happened. At our little country school, there was great deal of effort to set enough televisions so we could watch the event live. What I find amusing was seeing a video recently by a film producer/director talking about the difficulties of that time of faking the moon landings. What I took away from the video was that it was cheaper to send men to the moon than it was to build all the film and storage technology to fake the moon landings.

8bitsrule 8y ago
These 'fake' instrumends left behind continue to function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
- oldandtired 8y ago
  That has been one of my little favourite things about the whole "fake" debate and the question that goes with it. "How were these instruments placed so precisely on the moon, if they weren't put there by a man?"
  - Sharlin 8y ago
    To be fair, you don’t need a manned mission to install a retroreflector. The Soviet pre-Apollo Lunokhod landers included similar reflectors and they work fine.
    - utopcell 8y ago
      Valid point, but with a crucial correction: The Lunokhod landers landed on the moon way after Apollo 11 [1] so they are in no way pre-Apollo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
      - Sharlin 8y ago
        Oops, right! I read that the Apollo retroreflectors were improved based on Lunokhod experiences and got confused. Presumably the text was referring to the later Apollo 14 and 15 reflectors.
utopcell 8y ago
Put it differently: both faking it and actual landing were monumental engineering feats for the time
AllegedAlec 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
- oldandtired 8y ago
  Oh the irony, excellent skit.
rzzzt 8y ago
"Moon hoax not" by S G Collins: https://youtu.be/TYFMU7XfyzE https://youtu.be/TYFMU7XfyzE
- Angostura 8y ago
  I love that one. In addition - Moon hoax or not by Mitchell and Webb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M50Fd3gXvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M50Fd3gXvM

8bitsrule 8y ago

These 'fake' instrumends left behind continue to function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

oldandtired 8y ago
That has been one of my little favourite things about the whole "fake" debate and the question that goes with it. "How were these instruments placed so precisely on the moon, if they weren't put there by a man?"
- Sharlin 8y ago
  To be fair, you don’t need a manned mission to install a retroreflector. The Soviet pre-Apollo Lunokhod landers included similar reflectors and they work fine.
  - utopcell 8y ago
    Valid point, but with a crucial correction: The Lunokhod landers landed on the moon way after Apollo 11 [1] so they are in no way pre-Apollo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
    - Sharlin 8y ago
      Oops, right! I read that the Apollo retroreflectors were improved based on Lunokhod experiences and got confused. Presumably the text was referring to the later Apollo 14 and 15 reflectors.

utopcell 8y ago

Put it differently: both faking it and actual landing were monumental engineering feats for the time

AllegedAlec 8y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw

oldandtired 8y ago
Oh the irony, excellent skit.

rzzzt 8y ago

"Moon hoax not" by S G Collins: https://youtu.be/TYFMU7XfyzE https://youtu.be/TYFMU7XfyzE

Angostura 8y ago
I love that one. In addition - Moon hoax or not by Mitchell and Webb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M50Fd3gXvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M50Fd3gXvM