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Post by randombloke on Sept 8, 2011 6:53:47 GMT -4
According to Apollo 18, the reason why we never went back to the moon was <insert fairly standard mystery-monster horror plot here>
In fact it's so standard it's cribbed straight from Alien - the only thing missing is Sigourney Weaver kicking ass. Specifically: Astromanauts? Check Sent somewhere to investigate without proper explanation? Check Find hostile extraterrestrial life? Check Everyone dies except for the hero? Check Government covers the whole thing up afterwards? Check
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Post by BertL on Sept 8, 2011 8:32:07 GMT -4
Well, drats. I was looking forward to watching this movie. Now you've spoiled it all!
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Post by supermeerkat on Sept 8, 2011 9:03:19 GMT -4
So which part of the movie is more improbable? A secret Saturn V launch or a working N1 rocket?
I'd say the secret launch.
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Post by AstroSmurf on Sept 8, 2011 9:20:53 GMT -4
Clearly, they were perfecting the hush-a-boom technique later seen on 9/11. Those sneaky NASA people!
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Post by Count Zero on Sept 8, 2011 10:12:48 GMT -4
Nah, they just launched it during Spring Break, when everyone was too drunk and/or "preoccupied" to notice. Anyone who did see the smoke & flames would have written it off as a party-prank gone wrong (or spectacularly right, depending on your point-of-view).
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Post by fiveonit on Sept 8, 2011 21:04:31 GMT -4
So which part of the movie is more improbable? I would say the part where the rocks come alive and attack people. The 2nd one on the list is this, if the LK smashed into to CSM when it launched back into lunar orbit, how in heck did anyone get the film and video back to look at and post on the website mentioned in the beginning of the movie?
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Post by fiveonit on Sept 8, 2011 21:11:30 GMT -4
Well, drats. I was looking forward to watching this movie. Now you've spoiled it all! You're not missing much of anything!
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Post by supermeerkat on Sept 12, 2011 10:40:46 GMT -4
I would say the part where the rocks come alive and attack people. Forgot about that bit, which was silly to say the least. Rocks coming to life and attacking people was handled much better in the Doctor Who story "The Stones of Blood" with Tom Baker.
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Post by Jason Thompson on Sept 12, 2011 10:53:28 GMT -4
Considering those were some very inert looking large, obviously fibreglass 'rocks' being pushed around by someone out of shot, that says a lot about the film, really!
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Post by Count Zero on Sept 12, 2011 21:39:10 GMT -4
I've noticed that some of the conspiretards on other sites who argue that it was impossible to go to the Moon are also arguing that it was possible to launch a secret Apollo mission as shown in the movie.
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Post by randombloke on Sept 13, 2011 9:15:05 GMT -4
I would say the part where the rocks come alive and attack people. Forgot about that bit, which was silly to say the least. Rocks coming to life and attacking people was handled much better in the Doctor Who story "The Stones of Blood" with Tom Baker. Frankly, the idea of aggressive, vacuum-living lithoforms is still slightly more plausible than no-one in all of Florida catching a Saturn V launch (at night, to 'conceal' it).
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Post by grmcdorman on Sept 13, 2011 10:57:07 GMT -4
"Concealing" it at night? They try that in the film? What were they smoking?
Jeez. I had no intention of watching the movie; this gives yet another reason to avoid it.
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Post by laurel on Sept 13, 2011 11:02:48 GMT -4
"Concealing" it at night? They try that in the film? What were they smoking? Jeez. I had no intention of watching the movie; this gives yet another reason to avoid it. Yeah... night Saturn V launches are so inconspicuous. Who would notice something like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmwc8E9fCLI
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Post by grmcdorman on Sept 13, 2011 13:24:25 GMT -4
There's an interesting remark in the narration in that video:(at about 0:59). So they're concealing it from people - except for people in most of the SE U.S. (not to say the unfriendly nation of Cuba).
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Post by tedward on Sept 13, 2011 13:47:46 GMT -4
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