When you know the government lies but, you still trust NASA, you're only:

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

There is a laser range-finder that is on the moon that you can bounce a laser off of of, which clearly exists. But that just proves it's possible to put satellites on the moon, not humans. I'm not sure telescopes exist that are powerful enough to see the lunar landing launch module or the flag that was planted, from the Earth.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

You don't need powerful Earth telescopes if you have Lunar orbiting satellites with decent imaging gear - which I feel like they'd have done by now. Unless it was in their best interest not to.

Makes me reconsider this whole Flat Earth thing...

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

They do have those, they're just not publicly view-able yet. Here's a list of all the man-made satellites orbiting the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artificial_satellites_orbiting_the_Moon

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

A bunch of those (that we know of) are from the 1970s.

In 2009 half a billion+ and we get : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter

And the images we get are like these 256x256 Apollo missions with an arrow :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LRO_Apollo14.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LRO_Apollo15.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LRO_Apollo16.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LRO_Apollo17.jpg

Wait I found one! That smudge : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:390497main_surveyor1_enlarged.jpg

Oh. It's just a robot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_program

And yes, the copyright free images above have sources that are equally disappointing.

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/484

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

And with further digging, this is the best they've got:

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/65

Maybe it is legit.

Maybe.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The second to last link shows a lunar Rover. Why would they bring that to the moon? The moon is the destination. Where are they driving that thing to? Nowhere, cause it's a hoax.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It was supposed to allow them to explore further than walking distance.

Allegedly.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Allegedly is right.

Imagine if the rover broke down a few miles away from the lander, and they were stranded. Or if they drove into a crater and couldn't get out. It's a crazy idea that doesn't even merit serious consideration.

The rover was a prop for the cameras.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree it was sensational.

I sure the potential of a break down was seriously considered, real or not.

Where do you think they shot it?

  • In the desert at night?

  • A hangar made studio at Area 51?

  • That Laurel Canyon all-in-one production studio / military base where they likely "treated" the Zapruder film?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've heard it could have been on the set for 2001: A Space Odyssey. I didn't verify it, but there's a weekend identified when the movie set was shut down and a NASA guy was over in Europe, like there's a window that seems plausible-ish.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

By my recollection the sets don't seem too similar, visually.

And a weekend on a film shoot is not long at all, believe me. With technical gear, costumes, etc. aiming for perfection, you'd be lucky to get 30 seconds worth much less 3 minutes. They got a lot of footage. And then you'd have to return it back to how it was before the "lunar interlude". It makes for good lore but with what very little I know it doesn't make sense to overlap.

It'd make more sense to have a second studio set up 90% finished to specs then have Kubrick fly in for a weekend or two.

Has anyone seen "Filmworker", a 2017 docu about Kubrick's dedicated assistant? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6851066/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1

Can't even find a pirate version of Operation Lune / Dark Side Of The Moon.