Why the Moon Landing COULDN'T Have Been Faked | Adam Ruins Everything

[Music] okay explain to me one more time why do you think the moon landing was faked we're both skeptics right so think about it skeptically there's no way NASA had the technology to go to the moon they just filmed it on the soundstage that would have been way easier yeah that's what conspiracy theorists think but the truth is faking the moon landing in 1969 actually would have been harder than just going to the moon in the first place here I'll show you fake moon landing take one alright in this scene you're on the moon and it's real and were fooling America see Stanley Kubrick just shot a guy jumping around on set and when they played it back on TV sorry but given the filmmaking and lighting technology at the time that actually wouldn't have been possible right the lighting look at how bright it is look at these shadows this was clearly shot in the studio actually creating that lighting would have been essentially impossible in a studio Malinda meet Mark Cuban he's a forensic motion picture analyst and an emmy-winning life fellow of a Society of motion picture and television engineers thanks Adam using image forensics I can tell you the light source we see in the moon footage is actually parallel some raised with no diffusion if you look at the photos from the Apollo mission you can see that all the shadows are parallel because the light source is 93 million miles away but if you try to recreate that same photo using studio lighting the shadows diverge huh back in the 60s the only way to recreate that effect would be to build a wall of millions of laser lights so close together they'd be like pixels on a TV screen no no no no no this lighting is all wrong I need lasers beautiful lasers but lasers back then were big and costly so reading together that many of that size would have required an enormous apparatus that probably would have cost more than the entire Apollo project perfect this is great now we just need millions of these laces oh I don't know if that's in our budget or the country's honestly Peter you make me furious and in those days the only lasers that were practically available were red which means the color photos we have from the moon landing would have been impossible I can't shoot in red light it makes this moon look like a bordello correction we need millions of ultra rare multicolored lasers I don't explain I mean that's not even Peter now today we could recreate the correct lighting with computer graphics but in 1969 those didn't exist hmm I've asked my colleagues in forensics and a movie production and given the parallel light rays and the detailed color photos we just cannot think of any way they could have faked the moon landing with the technology they had at the time hmm thanks mark convinced maybe that's what they want you to think what if NASA secretly created a computer graphics and just kept it from us for 40 years well then an astronomical number of people would have had to keep that secret like over 400,000 NASA employees you want all 400,000 of us to keep our mouths shut yes please good luck we love gossip scientists from Australia Spain in England who said they independently picked up the moon-landing transmission from space and why would we lie for youse you're always making fun of our Vegemite and the Russians our space race rivals who had every reason to prove us wrong it's been 50 years and we haven't even claimed did you fainted you beat us fair and square this time but I'll get you back in 2016 well where's the tangible proof that we went to the moon huh there isn't any actually there is while the astronauts were on the moon they laid out a reflective material called retroreflectors so today when an Observatory on earth aims a high-power at them it bounces right back shut it down this is impossible oh no no wait it still could have been faked all you have to do is secretly develop computer graphics technology decades ahead of its time it convinced multiple governments to lie on our behalf and then somehow get retroreflectors to the moon without actually going there you can do that right forget it lady it'd be easier to put a man on the moon hey Adam here if you like that be sure to watch all new episodes of Adam ruins everything every Tuesday at 10:00 on truTV

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Id: zhp-FTYSGe8

Length: 4min 57sec (297 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 25 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/DrenchedInSyrup_]

i remember hearing a great line by bill burr about this topic

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'so, you're telling me, the motherfucking KGB couldn't figure out that it was faked, but no, that balding 40 year old in his mother's basement did.'

[u/headsiwin-tailsulose]

This leaked video from US intelligence agencies is all the evidence you really need.

[u/jonnygozy]

I think at this point, anyone who believes we faked the moon landing won't be convinced by any facts or evidence or persuasive arguments or anything along those lines.

[u/anameyouveforgotten]

Didn't watch the video, but the science doesn't matter in this case.

If the Americans had faked it, the Russians would have been ALL over that.

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[u/Marbodoesntforgive]

This guy did this topic already:

Edit: Apparently, this is the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYFMU7XfyzE

My mistake

[u/MaFratelli]

I know someone personally who was one of the hundreds of thousands of people who went down to cape Canaveral to witness with their own eyes and ears, in 1969, a rocket the size of a 36-story building violently shake the Earth and rise and disappear into the heavens on a column of flame. It was not a fabrication of Stanley Kubrick's special effects team, according to the eyewitness testimony of this multitude of ordinary people. So that much is definitively known. Why then is it so difficult to accept that the engineering geniuses that managed to pull off that stunt also managed to send that monstrosity to the moon, with 3 human passengers aboard?

[u/Alvin_Davenport]

Some people perceive there to be a lack of progression in space exploration. That's why I think these ideas manifest. It doesn't help that humans haven't been to the moon in almost 50 years.

[u/monkeypowah]

That doesnt even address the full scale of the problem. The dust kicking up from their shoes follows a 1/6thG no atmosphere trajectory. So reduce G and film the entire thing in a vacuum chamber, then synct to the millisecond the radio signals with the footage while its being tracked by soviet multi dish ships in the ocean to the sub metre accuracy...then keep doing it for every mission even though the viewing figures crashed near the end. Send up Saturn fives and perfectly passover the tracking telemetry to satellites while somehow hiding the rockets real trajectory from the worlds tracking stations in multiple countries. Then plan ahead to put fake landers up in complete secrecy for when another country visits the area...which it seems they have all ready done for overhead shots.