LMAO. Too perfect.

Apart from the profit (and there's plenty to be had) - there is a parallel that Jim Oberg identified some time ago. Moon Hoax people are cultural vandals.

Think about it. The kid who smashes the glass on a bus shelter. It's not a logical thing to do, it's not a constructive thing to do, it's not a sensible thing to do...but plenty of them do it.

Doug

I'll be sure to ask them how easy they think it would be to rig (literally) the Apollo footage.

They all pretty much laughed, at least the ones who knew how extensive the footage is.

In "O" there is a Russian swing nicknamed the Lunar Module. As it's hoisted offstage by the overhead carousel, you can hear snippets of the Apollo 11 landing audio in the soundtrack, then a set piece is illuminated with a lunar landscape gobo. Quite a nice touch.

The rigging for "O" is very intense. There are backups to backups to backups. It's good to see such attention paid to safety and reliability. But it all works only because it is a ten-year-old show that has been very carefully refined by those who work it.

Although true to form, I wasn't in the tank (and their insurance didn't allow it anyway); but I got to watch them test a new set of side nets for the bateau (a suspended set piece from which trapeze and parallel-bar acts are performed). The tests included hurling crash dummies (how do you say "Buster" in French) from the bateau into the nets and water, to be retrieved by divers. I got to assist the refit of the flying horses, who are getting actual carousel poles instead of stock aluminum poles wrapped in tape.

And I got the VIP treatment too at Ka unexpectedly. The technicians were a little suprised, I think, when I reverse engineered the three-axis deck lighting method on a napkin at In-and-Out Burger the next night. Apparently it's some sort of secret, although it can be done as little more than a standard view transformation applied to a real-time raster image.

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