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

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[–]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.