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
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
2 Words: The Firmament.
We never went back because we lost the will. The technology was post dated and needed to be replaced. 3 options were presented to Nixon, the very expensive option, the not as expensive option, and the kinda cheap option. Nixon said #3, but half that price. That’s how we got the Space Shuttle. The replacement for the shuttle was supposed to be green lit by Reagan, that was the plan, it would have a 20 year useful life and they’d use basically all that 20 years to make the replacement. Nobody has green lit any replacement. Which is why we have no manned launch vehicles anymore. It’s really hard to go to the moon when you’re not even building launch vehicles.
As for 2 actually very very much yes. A smart phone today has multiple times more gigaflops of processing power than existed on the entire planet when the moon landings happened. We have super computers in our pocket and use them to send misspelled texts.
It’s a non-refute at the end. Notice he has no answer for the van Allen belts radiation or the cosmic radiation outside the belts. Nor the lack of computing power to navigate the craft. Then he talks about alien bases!?!
Why do you post these dumb articles saying the moon landing was faked?
It’s dumbness at the highest level and makes FR look like a kooky conspiracy site.
THE MOON LANDINGS WERE NOT FAKED.
Our best and brightest developed the technology and our brave astronauts got it done .
Do you really the Russians wouldn’t have called us out if we faked it?
Of course they would, they could track everything.
In 1969 the technical difficulties of a moon landing were less than the technical difficulties of a video production such as we saw given the video technology of that time. If the landing were faked, the Russians would have faked one too.
Horseshit post. I thought better of you. Sorry to see on FR.
Not this junk again!
>> Anyone that thinks that the old Soviet Union would have
>> allowed the US to get by with such a hocus as a fake moon
>> landing
Unless its tit for tat, they cover for our moon landing, we cover for their Gagarin flight which also never happened.
Besides in the 60’s they desperately needed to buy wheat from the USA and Canada.
There is a firmament up there, don’t you know /s
>> Do you really the Russians wouldn’t have called us out if we faked it?
>> Of course they would, they could track everything.
Unless all of their so called space flights were faked too /s
Nothing gets past the firmament /s
Nothing. /s
Ooh, you got me. Common sense and belief in God and the Bible, is my proof. But what got me started was being told that I’m riding on a marble that’s spinning 1000 mph circling the sun at 66,000 mph and chasing said star through the Milky Way at 450,000 mph, yet every night since the beginning of recorded history, Polaris is due north and that has never changed. Must be gravity.
What am I, chopped liver?
And for reference, the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft were built by McDonnell Aircraft Co, the Apollo Command Module was build by North American Aviation. It's contractors, all the way down.
Great book on this topic—focuses on the Cold War implications of the Space Race:
https://www.amazon.com/One-Small-Step-Great-Dominate-ebook/dp/B07NB2QL13
Physics is hard (not really).
Meet some really “dumb” folks—they need to return all those advanced degrees—lol:
https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm
You are a kook.
I"ll just attempt to answser this one...not sure what you meant about the monkey.
First of all the Van Allen belts are not instant killers. Being in one doesn't mean you die right away. You pick up a dose of radiation. Here is a rough indicator of the location of the belts. Keep in mind though that this always in flux...
Second, the plotted trajectories avoid the belts as much as possible.
You'll notice that they take off and land near the polar regions...where the radiation is weaker.
If you're wondering about electronics failing they knew about the belts of radiation since 1958 and took measures to shield them from the radiation.
I'm not an expert, but this was the result of about 5 minutes of googling "van allen belts" and "trajectory of moon flights". Hope it helps.
Van Allen belts? I think he may have watched “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” once.
Seriously, there is a giant metal mesh satellite dish that a ham radio operator constructed behind his house here in my town. He built it in the mid/late 60’s so he could point it at the moon and pick up the radio conversations. He did pick them up. So, if we didn’t go, I wonder who he was listening to?
It is. Especially the Michelson-Morley experiment. It was so hard, Einstein had to invent E=mc2 just to justify why we couldn’t prove the “globe” was spinning.
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