(Yes, of course I know that’s not the Enterprise-D and that TNG came out in 1986, but you try making a better debunking joke.)

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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.

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That’d be it.

Honestly it’s super interesting to watch even if you know the moon landings happened for the history of tech he talks about.

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Yes!

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Oh, I know this video!

I remember playing it for somebody, and you could tell they were trying so hard to disagree with it in their head. I imagine they still believe it was fake, but it was funny.

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I feel like Captain Disillusion would have done a video on the moon landings if they were faked … unless he was in on it, hmm.

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I do find it amazing that it was literally easier to send humans to the moon than faking it in 1969

Like, isn’t that an astonishing fact?

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isnt there something about a smart watch today ahving more computational power than what took nasa to the moon, too?

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Flawless 4K special effects have been available for over 100 years, but the government’s been hiding them!

Re-hoaxed :)

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Everyone knows the moon landing was faked at a secret soundstage on Mars!

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Now this one is really concerning!

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