Nvidia recreates the moonlanding to prove it wasn't fake

[Ron Obvious]

The video is well worth watching, I think.

Humanity first set foot on the moon on July 20th, 1969. There is mission data, video, and photos of the event, but a startling number of people still subscribe to the conspiracy theory that we never went to the moon at all. They insist it was all done on a soundstage, and the proof is right there in the video. This claim has been debunked many times over the years, but now Nvidia is thumping the conspiracy theorists one more time in order to show off the power of its new Maxwell GPU.

Whole story here.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I appreciate the effort, but anyone who "thinks it was fake" is a jackass.

Scientists have been bouncing lasers off the ranging reflectors left by the apollo astronauts for over 40 years. The LCROSS mission recently took high res images of several landing sites, etc.

[Ron Obvious]

2. Yeah, it's not going to convince the hard-core moonhoax nutters

But then nothing will. I've always thought the moonlanding hoax was one of the silliest conspiracy theories out there anyway, but it's surprisingly widespread.

I thought it was interesting that they couldn't get the lighting to look right until they added Neil Armstrong, and the reflection off his suit provided the missing illumination.

[wandy]

3. The insanity of our time. You need ungodly compute power in order to.........

fake something, in order to prove it was real.

As the man pointed out, in 1969 man could realize the fantisy of landing on the moon but that 'hot' of a GPU(s) wasn't even dreamed of yet. In 1969 'magic' was lighting dots on phosphor in a 5 by 7 matrix.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Now Moon Truthers have proof

that the lunar landing was faked using an NVIDIA GPU.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. "Moofers"?

[valerief]

5. Very cool. nt

[BlueJazz]

6. I remember being confronted by this nonsense years ago. One of the scenarios...

...the "No stars" one, was absolutely laughable.
Being an Amateur Astronomer and Astrophotographer, I told one woman>
'When I shoot fairly bright heavenly objects like Albireo (double star) I do it in seconds, when I shoot nebula I do it in hours..You think I'd pick up images using 1/200 of a second?? Get real.

[Marrah_G]

8. fact or faked did the moonlanding thing too

They could not replicate it, especially with tech of that era.