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Could we have had Beast Wars in the 60s? (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] saucyloggins@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago

That’s because the government has had tech way beyond even what we have today. They just peace-meal it out to us bro. They’ve been coordinating mass propaganda against us 1984 style since like. Before 1984.

Also. The government is so incompetent they can’t provide health care better than private insurance companies. Obviously.

[-] Alvinum@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They won't provide or create the framework for proper health care in the US because private health care is a very effective extortion scheme that can pay for the laws they want.

And the pharma companies like it like that.

"Oh, you like living? Too bad you live in the US, where we will charge you 10x what everyone else in the world pays for the insulin you need to survive. Pay up or die.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/insulin-us-costs-7-times-canada-california-suing-makers-scheming-illegally-increase-price/amp/

There is a reason the US has the most expensive health care system in the world, while the health care system quality using objective criteria,l is usually around rank 40-60, below practically all western countries, below cuba and comparable to Armenia or Morocco.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290168/health-index-of-countries-worldwide-by-health-index-score/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000

The US is also basically the only industrialized country where medical bankruptcy is a thing.

[-] CodingSquirrel@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

You're not wrong, but I think the above poster was sarcastically pointing out that people who believe that the government is highly coordinated and competent don't trust the government to run healthcare because it's too uncoordinated and incompetent. Both incredibly strong and also laughably weak.

[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds reasonable... you've got my vote

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

"The moon landing was staged, but Stanley Kubrick demanded to shoot on location."

[-] feck_it@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Gee , think about all the logistics that goes into this obvious stage ~on the location~

[-] kurikai@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Upvote for Beastwars

[-] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

I don't get to talk about Beast Wars enough these days.

[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Beast Wars used to be great.

It still is, but it used to be too.

[-] quicksand@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Thx Mitch

[-] Fleshtrap@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Beast Wars was so dope.

[-] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

I don't think it was staged or something but if I look at 2001: A Space Odyssey, I really am fascinated by the good visual effects, so the raw filming could probably have been done, but most Nasa documents of that time are online and there is no possiblity everything would have been fake.

[-] Thassar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 11 months ago

Nah, the technology to fake the moon landing straight up didn't exist in the 60s. There's a really good video on youtube that goes over it but I can't seem to find it right now. But basically, even though there were some nice techniques to make special effects for movies, they wouldn't have worked for faking an actual moon landing.

[-] TheMonkeyLord@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

For some reason, to me at least, there is a good amount of irony in this. Almost like because the technology and techniques to replicate a convincing moon landing weren't around they just went there instead lol

[-] Thassar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that's why I love that fact too. Sending a rocket into space and landing on a tiny ball of rock was literally easier than pretending to do it.

[-] Chadsalot@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Well yeah but that's just the CGI that's available to the public. Everyone knows the governments been using holograms since the 60s. Wake up.

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Why holograms in the '60s? Didn't you hear about the experimental hallucinogen laced AC units?

[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No but are they still accepting applications for that one or...?

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Nah, you just gotta ask the folks in the know, "'Token' AC?" and they'll hook you up /s

[-] ZAX2717@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I mean the CGI was awesome at the time, I was also 7 so take that with a grain of salt.

[-] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I was around the same age. It was high tech!

[-] Enasni@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/apollo-landing-footage-would-have-been-impossible-to-fake-a-film-expert-explains-why

Unironically, this is actually my favorite take on the moon landing conspiracy. The technology to fake the footage and photos we got simply didn't exist at the time.

[-] some_guy@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

My take is that they hired Kubrick to make the footage but he insisted on shooting it on-location.

[-] gaybear@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

fun fact, there's an official render of dinobot (beastwars character) where he has a dick

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

... proof?

[-] gaybear@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"dirk dinobot"

[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I know it may not seem like it, but this gorilla is computer generated.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

You one of those crazy people who believes in the moon‽

[-] crowbar@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Wow a wild interrobang appeared!

[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Wow that intro brings back memories.

Kind of surprised it only went 3 seasons/55 episodes, seemed popular at the time.

https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL_hfDtD68l8X7JjIAf1pusxoaX2JN1iAg

[-] z500@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There were also two seasons of Beast Machines, but it wasn't quite the same.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, Apollo 13 the movie literally came out the year prior so we had the ability to depict the moon landing with CGI in the 90s.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Most of that movie was done with practical effects and miniatures. The CGI was relatively minimal since it was so weak back then.

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I do not get it. Why 1996? What’s relationship of that date with the moon landings?

[-] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

If in 1996 cgi was shit in the 60s it would never be better than this. In reality it didn’t even exist.

[-] Tetra@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Well, that's just prime...

[-] avater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Jurassic Park was '94 ;)

[-] Dangdoggo@kbin.social -3 points 11 months ago

Yeah but the 3D effects in Jurassic Park were made by two passionate developers who basically invented rigging to make those sequences and went totally over budget and did it without the lighting tech we have today. Which is to say, they hand crafted each UV. That technique would never be used today but the results speak for themselves

[-] avater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

but maybe Neil Armstrong was also very dedicated?

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