Posted on 08/24/2023 10:57:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Of his 13 movies a few are considered classics in their respective genres. Including the black comedy Dr. Strangelove, the highly-quoteable anti-war commentary of Full Metal Jacket, and one of the most disturbing horror films of all time, The Shining.
But in 1968, Kubrick released "2001 - A Space Odyssey". This is more than a classic. It's a masterpiece. And widely regarded as one of the best science-fiction films of all time, and probably the most influential.
This collaboration with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of an alien intelligence that visited Earth in the distant past, and left behind artifacts in the solar system.
The movie (2001 - A Space Odyssey) features ground breaking special effects, which still hold up today.
In fact, the effects looked so good that the movie gave the American Government an idea.
Billions of tax dollars were invested in the space program but the Soviets were still years ahead of the United States.
NASA desperately needed to get to the moon before Russia, but they knew it was impossible. So they turned to one of the World's Best Filmmakers for help. Because when it came to the moon: if they couldn't make it, they'd fake it!
https://youtu.be/yDyJe1nmSOM?feature=shared
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You’re not one of those moon landing deniers, are you? I thought we finally got all those kooks and their flat earth brethren to go away.
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Posted on 8/24/2023, 1:16:12 PM by nickcarraway
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They read it on a blog. It must be true
I watched the original moon shot, and while I believe we could have landed something on the moon, I doubt anything came back.
For realism Stanley Kubrick insisted that they film it on the moon.
3 Words: Van Allen Belts
The key is to one up them.
Whenever I hear, "You believe we landed on the Moon?" I just come back with, "Pfft! You believe in the Moon?"
“Wouldn’t it be great to make everyone think we had landed on the moon?
https://www.youtube.ceom/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
Wow, that is a great “unknown” series: The initial fake moon landing followed by 5 sequel fake moon landings. Unbelievable!!!!!
The money quote. The whole point of denying the moon landing is to put down the US. This praising of the USSR is a tell.
So?
Three words with contractions: You’re acting looney
You’re not one of the moon landing believers are you.
1. We never went back because we lost or destroyed the technology. Ok then.
2. Our phones have more computing power than NASA. Ah. No.
3. As an IT specialist. You can have 1000s working on a project but only a handful know the big picture.
Yes they went in space. Yes they orbited the earth. No we never landed.
Please. The special effects in 2001 were not very good. People walked around on the moon just like they did on earth. In reality, astronauts chose to hop instead of walk on the moon, and they did it in 150 pound space suits. They moved slow because the pull of gravity is only one sixth what it is on earth. In the movie they moved exactly as if they were on earth, so NO, KUBRIC DID NOT FILM THE MOON LANDINGS.
The Van Allen Belts are low-level radiation only. Who told you they were microwave ovens? It wasn’t NASA. The most intense parts will give you about 1 rem per hour. It takes about 100 rems to make a person sick, and it took only a couple hours for the Apollo craft to cross.
LOL! Good one!
Please tell us, in your own words, what you think the Van Allen radiation belts are, how they are formed, what their shape is, the radiation intensity within them, what sort of radiation they contain, how many there are, how they vary with time ...
Show the assembly here how much of a clue you really have.
Remember: IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
No links, not sudden research, just what you know right now.
He also forgot the prequels; Apollos 8 and 10.
Not too many folks have told Buzz Aldrin he was a phony and not been punched in the face. I kind of like him.
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