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Walk on the Moon in IMAX 3D
HaveNoMouth writes "NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Tom Hanks are making an IMAX 3D movie about the Apollo moon landings to give viewers something like the actual experience of being on the moon. Complete with actors playing astronauts, mockups of the Lunar Excursion Module, and fake moon surface, this looks to be a real kick. The website for the movie itself is all shockwave, but it contains some nice behind-the-scenes photos of the production. Here's a QuickTime trailer. All you lunar hoax conspiracy theorists out there can just consider this the remake, with 2005-class special effects."
Best bit is, they've already got the set from the faked moon landings in 1969!
Now you too can fake your own moon landing from the comfort of your own home after seeing this movie!
Accept any challenge, No matter the odds.
How come I keep looking for the MTV flag?
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Well the real question is, are they using the original set, or a new one. I heard that higher definition displays show lots of flaws in lower def sets.
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"Complete with actors playing astronauts, mockups of the Lunar Excursion Module, and fake moon surface, this looks to be a real kick."
And if you are a conspiracy theorist, you'll get a free pair of 3-D glasses and get punched out by Buzz Aldrin!
You don't even understand, the secret is in what the y DON'T tell you. After Tom Hanks (the mildly retarded yet persistant shrimping captain turned astronaut) gets stranded after the lunar lander, loses 70 pounds, and is rescued when he triumphantly sends an email to an unwitting cute small time bookstore owner, who he later marries - and manages as the head of a womans baseball team. If that isn't sheer gold, it's at least Oscar worthy. Count me in. T dub out.
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If you watch that clip in super slow-motion, you can see Aldrin take a sliderule from his pocket and compute the optimum punch vector.
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I'm not sure why this struck me as being so funny: "NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Tom Hanks are making an IMAX 3D movie..." My emphasis...
I can't help but think of similar matchups like "Today, the European Union, Venezuela, and Posh Spice all expressed their sympathy to the U.S...."
Stupid, I know. I'll shut up now.
They couldn't possibly have filmed this movie on a sound stage. They obviously sent real astronauts to the moon to film this, and they're only telling us it was filmed on Earth.
This sig seemed like a good idea at the time....
"I am the big bad troll for asking if this is an article or an ad? I thought /. posted news for nerds. This seems to be just an ad for an IMAX movie."
So... you're interested in it if it's not an ad, but you aren't interested if it is an ad...?
"Derp de derp."
Maybe they got those figures directly from NASA. We all know how well they handle metric units.
Yet another remake of a 60s TV classic, wasn't bewitched enough? can't we come up with new ideas anymore? :)
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But will Leela be able to watch the 3D film?
Fact - The moon does not exist.
The moon weighs 73 600 000 trillian tonnes and is made from cheese. To produce that much dairy produce, it would take the world 12 trillion years at the current annual rate of dairy production. Since the world has only been in existence for 4.6 billion years, there is no way that much cheese could have been produced even if current dairy production was at current rates.
Fact - If it did exist, there is no way of getting there.
The moon is roughly 250 000 miles away. There are no gas stations on the way. A typical car will only get about 600 miles on a full tank. Even an exceptionally fuel efficent car with a very large tank will not get anythign like 250 000 miles.
So, since the moon is cleary an illusion, and is too far away to visit, the "moon landings" must have been faked.