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This reminds me of how it was cheaper for the US to go to the moon than it would have been to fake the moon landing with the technology of the time. At least I
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
This reminds me of how it was cheaper for the US to go to the moon than it would have been to fake the moon landing with the technology of the time. At least I remember reading an article a few years ago with that premise.
- erik_seaberg 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw had fun exploring what they could and could not fake.
- herbstein 6y agoThis video goes through why the video technology at the time simply wasn't even good enough to enable faking the moon landing. Even if they wanted to. https://youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs https://youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs
- morceauxdebois 6y agoWhile it is a bogus conspiracy theory, I got more of an understanding why people could think of it as reasonable after seeing 2001 and realizing it came out _before_ the moon landing.
- eru 6y agoCompare the moonlanding poster in https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/04/prospiracy-theories/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/04/prospiracy-theories/