Thanks, mako88sb for sharing this, 2 great vids.
Two things were very interesting:
in the first video, how the author pointed out how often people who
want to believe, slide into "magic" explainations.
I had a similar discussion during the weekend about cryptology. My two friends, who are no hoaxers, but not very computer savy, speculated about how the authorities have supercomputers who would not be available to the public. I tried to point out that even the best computers can't beat the laws of exponentiality, though they couldn't really wrap their heads around this. Even tried the old ricecorn on a chessboard example, but it didn't help.
Point is, it is not easy to explain technology and especially its limitations. Therefore big kudos to SG Collins for trying to explain it to the layman, I think he did a great job.
The second video exposes much about how those troofers work: Google some keywords, take one of the first 10 links and quote some random stuff= proof.
Nice and comfy from your home computer, why go out and ask people who know their stuff.
The book about the moon broadcast Collins' held into the camera looks also pretty interesting. For anyone who's interested in the technical aspect of the TV broadcast, I can also recommend this site:
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/
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Originally Posted by Rhodes
I also laugh when during the reply video,the person that had made the refute for the first video says that 16mm film is used in TV and 35mm in cinema.
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To be fair, this is the only thing I saw Collins' didn't get 100% right. Many TV movies/series have been shot on 16mm, though I think it wasn't very common untill super 16 came out.
In ENG, 16mm (reverse film due to time constraints) stayed popular untill the mid 70s, untill U-Matic became popular and affordable. However this makes Collins' quality remark still valid.
The hoax guy should just have gone to any film set on the world and ask the camera assistant what the hell they are doing after every take when they check the cam for fuzz which might have landed on the film during
seconds of shooting.
That's why I loved this sentence: "If you're thinking of shooting 16mm at double speed with a 2300 foot load: Don't!" True words, dat!
