• thefloweracidic@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I can’t remember where I heard this or of it is true, but apparently it would have cost significantly more money to deceive the public with a fake moon landing than it would have been to fund the mission. When I think about the effort they would have put behind this ruse it makes sense as I’m sure the media was all over the event and the fakery wouldn’t have been isolated to a single broadcast.

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    14 hours ago

    Now imagine how CGI was when they flew to the moon in 1969!

    The best argument against the moon landings being fake is the sheer amount of people involved in the Apollo project. Estimates go up to 400’000 people (with different levels of involvement). If it had all been fake, someone would have blabbed by now.

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      9 hours ago

      One of my favorite quotes is “The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead”, from some random western movie, but yes people love to blab.

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      13 hours ago

      Actually the best argument would be that the Soviets didn’t raise holy hell about it being fake.

      Apollo 11 was able to be tracked by radio the entire trip to the moon. The radio transmissions and The television broadcast was unencrypted over plain radio. I’m sure the Soviets were able to verify the entire mission in real time. If there was even a hint that the moon landing was fake, the Soviets would have been throwing it in the US’s face the instant it happened.

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    14 hours ago

    I remember when I was in kindergarten and the teacher was cool for reminding us that Beast Wars is coming up soon in couple of hours, so we could have something to look forward to going home!

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      12 hours ago

      I used to watch it bleary-eyed af in the mornings before school in order to stay awake and not miss the bus.

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    16 hours ago

    I don’t think it was fake at all, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a denier say it was cgi. They say it’s a stage.

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    16 hours ago

    The Moon landing was staged, but Kubrick insisted on shooting on location.

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      12 hours ago

      This comment isn’t real. The government is just convincing the matrix to hit the dopamine button on my trans-dimensional I.V. that an elephant that only exists conceptually dreamed of while at the tail-end of a particularly hard trip while scumming it up at Slab City.

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      15 hours ago

      if you reeeaaaally zoom in, you can see it’s actually Epstein’s and Trump’s faces, along the 👌 emoji

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    1 day ago

    I came for transforming monke robots, but what I got was the most kino character death out of all children’s cartoons.

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    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.