Moon Landing. Fact or Fiction.
Posted by: _charlie on 08 October 2007
Until recently I had never heard of the conspiracy theory that we never landed on the moon. Given recent fuel by a Fox documentary that gave credence to those who doubted we ever landed on the moon and that the whole thing was filmed in a studio. I've even heard one theory that has movie director Stanley Kubrick directing the whole enterprise. He was apparently rewarded by with use of a special NASA camera worth one million to film interiors of 'Barry Lyndon'.
If you look at the rock labeled R you will notice a the letter C carved in the rock. Perhaps a gag left by the props department?
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 20% of them believe the Apollo Missions were faked.
Anyone familiar with these or similar claims ?
Bizarre stuff and, I think, a rather poor reflection of the times. People, it seems, have so little faith in their higher institutions.
If you look at the rock labeled R you will notice a the letter C carved in the rock. Perhaps a gag left by the props department?
A recent poll of Americans revealed that fully 20% of them believe the Apollo Missions were faked.
Anyone familiar with these or similar claims ?
Bizarre stuff and, I think, a rather poor reflection of the times. People, it seems, have so little faith in their higher institutions.
quote:Originally posted by Tam:
Actually, I missed this week's (thanks for reminding me). But, to be honest, I found the first episode rather disappointing. It's from the team behind the recent adaptations for R4 of the last 3 Hitchhiker's books and, for my money, they rather missed the point. Instead of playing to strengths of the medium, as Douglas Adams always did, they just straight transposed it. The result wasn't as funny as it should have been and meant for an awful lot of very clunky expository dialogue that had simply been lifted from descriptive passages in the books.
That and the fact that Harry Enfield is not good casting.
regards, Tam
p.s. Ken,
I've not heard them yet - on my iPod just now. While I agree up to a point with the later Hitchhiker material, I think Dirk Maggs had quite a task on his hands. The books themselves are nowhere near as good as the original made-for-radio series and pretty hard to distill. I believe Douglas wanted Dirk to do these and they had been talking about them before he died.
I miss Douglas.
Regards
Stephen
quote:Originally posted by Unstoppable:
Why we never went back
Brilliant.
.Dean.......................................