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If more money is spent making a show about Apollo than the actual Apollo missions - why not film them on location?
by lumost 6y ago
If more money is spent making a show about Apollo than the actual Apollo missions - why not film them on location?
- xiphias2 6y agoTom Cruise is going to space for a reason
- wmf 6y agoSomeone once joked that if Kubrick had been asked to fake the moon landings he would have insisted on filming on the moon for maximum realism. The main problem is probably cost disease; if you tried to recreate any Apollo missions today it would cost you more (adjusted for inflation even) that it originally did.
- SilasX 6y ago"Cost disease" generally refers to the phenomenon of things becoming (relatively) more expensive because of the unavoidable human-labor component, but the Apollo missions would be more expensive for other reasons, or other requirements that necessitate human labor where said requirements didn't exist before.
- orwin 6y agoyeah, the cost of human life is significantly higher than what it used to be.
- Gibbon1 6y agoMy joke was the cost of faking the moon landing was too high. 100% of GDP from 1960 to 1970. And then the estimated cost for the 'Kubrick Plan B' was too high. So they sent two air force test pilots up with home movie cameras to film each other on the moon. Lame!