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China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch
Ironsides writes "After faking the fireworks at the Olympics this year, one would have thought China had learned their lesson. Now, it appears they announced the success of their manned space mission before liftoff even occured, complete with dialogue."
much like america's economy, making up the numbers only works for so long.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
And as for the "fake fireworks", I have another revelation for everyone - did you see that man who ran in the air all around the stadium? See him? Well, prepare to have your mind blown. Are you ready? Sure you're really ready? OK, get this:
He wasn't really flying!
Prepare to have your mind blown: We all know that!
The problem is not that they used special effects for the crowd. The problem is that they showed up something different from what the live audience saw and pretended that that's what they really saw.
There's a difference between how people would feel about: ...and...
a) Here, have a tasty veggie burger!
b) Here, have a tasty, juicy burger! (Which I'm not telling you is a veggie burger.)
It's not that veggie burgers are bad. It's just that people don't like being lied to, and it's even worse when something is *successfully* passed off on you, and you later learn you were suckered.
This is the problem here. They wrote up an article with completely fake dialog that might have plausibly happened and expected to deceive us all. If they'd said, "The conversation in the cockpit when something like this..." we'd be fine, because we'd be on notice that this is a fictional telling. It's the intent to pull the wool over our eyes that offends in a way that an impressible special effect or magic trick does not.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Dude, we all know there were real fireworks at the opening ceremonies. You don't need to keep telling us that.
And regardless of the reason that the giant firework footprints weren't real, they weren't real. They were faked.
And I don't buy the bit about it being too dangerous for helicopters to film it. With gyroscopic stabilization, telephoto lenses, and electronic stabilization on top of all that, it would seem that the helicopters could have stood off at a safe distance and filmed it.
Regardless of the reason that the footprints were faked, they were faked. Whether it was for safety, expense, or that it just wouldn't be possible to get that uniform of a display using real fireworks.
None of that changes the fact that it was faked. The Chinese also had the cute little girl lip-sync to the vocals of the not as cute little girl. And now they broadcast news and dialog like it was the real thing. It's all manufactured.
And just like children's toys painted with leaded paint, dog food "fortified" with melamine, and milk diluted with water but also fortified with melamine to fake protein levels, the Chinese really are hideous and corrupt.