...the last thing I would forget is to put stars in space.

Except that if you put stars in the photos every single photographer that knows about exposure settings would be crying fake.

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...the last thing I would do is let somebody open the sound stage door so the flag waved in the wind.

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Well if we're going there...

... the last thing I'd do is use a crane to lift the Rover into position when I could get someone to drive the thing onto the set.

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The only people who complain about missing stars are those who don't understand why the stars aren't supposed to be there.

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Who are you going to believe? A bunch of know-nothing professional highly-trained photographers, or some random guy on the internet?

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heh, of course you know what the omnipotent/incompetent conspiracy should have done? Added the stars, bribed all the photographers to say they were right, and claimed that you can't do it on Earth because of the atmosphere.

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Since I can just go out and try it myself with my own camera, I don't have to trust either. Funny what happens when you make something about observation and investigation instead of about "Who ya gonna believe?"

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But you're using an Earth camera in an atmosphere, Jay. Everyone knows that NASA had magical space cameras outside the atmosphere and so could disobey the laws of chemistry and get the stars onto the emulsion. You must be a sheeple or a paid NASA disimformationist. ;p

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But think of all those non-sheeple, non-disinfo agents who are out there right now trying it themselves and not relying on anyone to tell them anything.

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Keeping in the "spirit" of the OP....


If I were in charge of a fake moon landing the very last thing I would do is actually land Men on the Moon.

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... I would just say no and actually do a real landing.

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I would organize "black ops types" to silence all the whistleblowers. But only after they ran there faces for a couple of decades to throw off any connection.

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I would develop, train and procure 99.99999999% of the required technology, hardware, personel and procedures... to make sure the fake looked "real".

Then if asked about the other 0.00000001%, I'd bluff.

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If I was going to fake the Moon landings I would have used real actors instead of those rank amateur athletic/brave/pilot/scientist types who said "golly" all the time. I would never have muffed that "one small step.." line

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Hah, who are you trying to fool. There are only sheeple, paid off disinformationist and those of us that know the REAL TRUTH!!111!!!1111! And we don't need to do your disinformist experiments cause we already know the TRUTH!!!111!!!!1





Sheeze, how do they do this sort of thing for real?

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Or just had them do a reshoot....

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You mean actually getting up and leaving the basement? Going and doing something that doesn't require a keyboard, mouse, game controller or TV remote? In the real world? With all that air and light?

How barbaric.

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OMG - That is SO last century!

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If I was in charge of a fake moon landing I would have made it much more exciting. I mean, come on, no monsters, no aliens, no space battles, not even some cheese. Just a bunch grey rocks. YAWN!!!!

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...the last thing I would do is use highly reflective, visible wires instead of the matte black invisible wires that is an industry standard.

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I would not hire scientists or engineers in helping fake the moon landing. I would hire writers, "investigtive reporters", and actors, they are the ones who use common sense and really know how things should work on the moon.

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If I were in charge of a fake moon landing...

I'd claim that a lone scientist working out of his house had discovered an antigravity material which he used to coat control surfaces on a glass and metal sphere, and that he and some other guy whom he met just a few weeks before flew up to the moon in the sphere. I'd then claim that the scientist got captured by the Selenites and that his one last frantic radio transmission completely failed to impart the secret of making the antigravity material... Well, well, well.

That one should last until it gets uncovered by the FOIA.

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...highly reflective, visible wires instead of the matte black invisible wires that is an industry standard.

This is actually a gag in Spamalot. Tim the Enchanter enters on a flyrig equipped with rather obvious wires. Arthur asks something like, "Who are you, who can float in the air without any visible means of suspension?"

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The ascent capsule engines will create 6 foot deep blast craters and the dust that it generates and it will take long time to settle down. The capsule will have s feet of lead to absorb all of the deadly radiation. I will us the most expensive high powered computer of all time to do all the calculations needed (although a simple pda would work just as well).

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If I were to in charge of a fake moon landing, I would have patented youtube.

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I would have patented the internet.

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how can you patent something that the former Vice President invented when he was a Senator 20 years after you perpetrated the perfect hoax?
or is anything that a public servant invents fall in the public domain until some random person decides to get the patent on it?
or, did you just let him think that he invented it, when in reality, you and a special effects crew in Hollywood invented it in the 60's, and kept it secret for a couple of decades?

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If I were in charge of a fake moon landing, I would absolutely avoid a lighting setup that makes shadows about as non-parallel as possible.

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Why hasn't anyone mentioned the space babes? If I was faking the landing, there'd definately be some bikini-clad space babes. An Astronaut/space-babe beach party montoge would ensue, to the tune of some Beach Boys style song. The party would break up when the body-building eight-tentacled boyfriends of the space-babes showed up and ran the Astronauts off. We would, however, get the last laugh when the dust cloud would burry the space-bullies up to their necks in moon-sand.

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