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Old 02-March-2008, 07:27 AM
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Default Re: Thought experiment on faking the moon landing

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Originally Posted by Extracelestial
In fact, every Sciene Fiction movie has refrained from "faking" low gravity (be it on the Moon , Mars or Deneb IV) by slow motion because it is not so easy to deceive the eye.
In the appalling Capricorn One, which serves as rubric for many HBers, when the astronauts jumped onto the Martian surface, Hal Holbrook ordered temporary slow-motion effects. Of course the catch was, that wasn't the only place in the "fakery" where lower-than-Earth gravitational acceleration would have been observed. But, that's Hollywood/HBers.
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