Enterprise-D(ebunking)

My favorite debunking is an old YouTube video called "moon hoax not" where a filmmaker explains that the due to technology limits of the time, faking the multi-hour live broadcasts in slow-motion, which millions of people were watching, would be impossible without there being telltale signs of it being spliced film (the splicing, film grain, etc.). Since slow-mo video (distinct from film; TV broadcasts were video) at the time could not play back more than a few seconds of footage, at most, it would have to be high-speed film played back at normal speed. Assuming you could find or make a high-speed camera fit to task. While the first landing had awful video quality, later missions had much higher quality and the film fakery would be impossible to completely hide. People these days massively overestimate the video (and film) technology that was available in 1969. (IIRC. It's been years since I've last rewatched it.)

Edit: TL;DR: Perfectly faking the multi-hour uninterrupted video broadcasts (i.e., either inventing slow-motion video that can last hours, or perfectly passing off a multi-hour film as video) in slow-motion would have been significantly more difficult than sending humans to the moon with 1969 technology.

Faking the moon landing would have been a massive coverup requiring the cooperation of at least one foreign nation. (Australia, because of Parkes)

During the Nixon administration. Nixon couldn't even cover up one little burglary.

Fake moon landing, aliens built the pyramids why do some conspiracy theories insist on robbing humans of their monumental achievements. My guess is that people who create and share conspiracies like those are too dumb to realize that other people have different knowledge than they do.

Also keep in mind that the astronauts communicated with Earth by radio. Anyone with even 1920s radio technology would have figured out that the astronauts weren't broadcasting from the Moon.

We were in the middle of a cold war with the soviets back in the 1960s. Proving the moon landing was fake would have been the propaganda coup of the century for them. What possible reason would they have to stay quiet about that?

Wasn't 2001 also made at that time? As I recall, that was incredibly realistic (mostly), far more so than a cheap TV show

(Not saying that 2001 is proof, just that ToS isn't a great comparison)

IT'S BEEN A LONG ROAD

However, for its time TOS effects were often really good. People expected the typical B-movie styles but got believable visuals.

The problem with moon landings isn't that they can't be done, it's that they are dangerous as shit, with little reward. You'd get a better deal out of being sent to a remote desert island.

you try making a better debunking joke.)

Are you kidding me? Lemmy is way too contentious to encourage me to do that - I am leaving posting to the professionals like you!

But that's a low-budget show. The Apollo Program had billions to invest in VFX.

TNG came out in 1987. I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

To be fair star trek was impressive for the time

I saw a rebuttal that said the special effects at the time couldn't have faked it.

On the other hand, do you know one of the companies that supposedly made the Saturn-V?

Boeing.

It looks fine on a CRT at 480i

The reason the conspiracy exists is because the video footage is staged to match the audio. Obviously there wasn’t a camera crew on the moon.

You appear to follow the Vulcan philosophy of IDIC: I Debunk Idiotic Claims.

Yeah, but think about what the GOVERNMENT could afford! They were SUPER rich back then!

Looks legit, what's the point here?

The special effects were simply building practical rockets and sending astronauts to the actual moon to make it look unscripted.