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Posted on 04/06/2026 11:47:45 AM PDT by libh8er
A NASA video has sparked a firestorm online, with conspiracy theorists claiming it 'proves' Artemis II is staged.
The crew gave a live interview to CNN over the weekend to discuss their journey to the moon while a plush toy named 'Rise' floated around the capsule as a zero-gravity indicator.
The video in question, filmed from a television screen by a smartphone, appeared to show unusual visual distortions with fragmented white text, including partial letters such as 'TAN' and 'OW,' flickering across the toy's head and body.
And some viewers quickly seized on it as supposed evidence of digital manipulation. 'It's fake. NASA has been misleading the American public since the '60s. Fake Apollo moon landing. Fake Artemis 2,' one user shared on X.
The viral clip, however, was not digitally altered but recorded from a television display with chromakey overlay processing active. Chromakey, commonly known as the blue- or green-screen effect, is routinely used by broadcasters to insert graphics, captions and lower-third text into live footage.
Live interviews routinely include graphic overlays added by the network, such as name banners, logos, and scrolling captions, which are digitally layered over the video in real time.
During the NASA interview, CNN likely displayed standard on-screen graphics identifying the astronauts and the mission.
When the viral clip was recorded from a television screen rather than taken from the original broadcast feed, the phone camera captured both the video and those graphics at slightly different refresh rates.
That timing mismatch can cause fragments of on-screen text to briefly overlap with bright or moving objects, such as the colorful plush toy, creating the illusion that letters were appearing directly on it.
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LOL! So funny this story was published!
Funny how so many US space missions get hit with BS hoax stories.
Like the Police Squad rear window of the squad car accidentally showing Europe instead of the phony city driving clips.
James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-ZwA-ZBcE
Some in the theater audiences figured out he wasn’t actually on the Moon.
“Like the Police Squad rear window of the squad car accidentally showing Europe instead of the phony city driving clips.”
Huh?
Reminds me of the movie Capricorn One(1978)
ctl-alt-del
i’m pretty sure the tip off was the giant “Warner Brothers Studio 4” on the wall in the background that your could read if you squinted just right ...
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more daily fail BS.
I don’t believe a lot of the moon hoax conspiracies, but I do think the moon is much closer to the Earth than scientists claim.
“I see a Bad Moon rising,
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes & lightnin’
I see bad times today!”
I’m moderately curious as to why you think that. What measurements have you made of the distance Earth to Moon? What orbital calculations have you performed to determine the Lunar orbital period?
Based on all your measurements and/or calculations, what do you believe the Earth-Moon distance to be?
Here we go...
“Wouldn’t it be great to make everybody think we landed on the moon?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
I believe we landed on the moon but considering all the lies the government has been caught telling I can understand all the doubt.
If you read this kleon person’s in forum posts you’ll discover he’s about as thick as they come on this forum.
That post is a great example.....I mean who would make such a bizarre off the wall statement?
It’s ignorant just on the face of it. SMH
“ but I do think the moon is much closer to the Earth than scientists claim.”
Why?
You don’t think they figured that out before Apollo went there?
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