How much cgi would be needed to fake apollo

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A modern CPU is 200 gflops. A 1968 computer is 5 mflops. A few weeks to render a minute of footage.

So since there are only a few minutes of physically relevant footage (lunar rover dust trajectory, object movement, oscillations etc) it wouldn't take much it seems. Refute this

An incitement to debate the feasibility of a hoax is not a question about space exploration. — Anthony X, Jul 29 '18 at 04:31
Possible duplicate of How do we know the Apollo Moon landings are real? — uhoh, Jul 29 '18 at 04:33
You may want to have a look at this video: Debunking Lunar Landing Conspiracies with Maxwell and VXGI — DarkDust, Jul 29 '18 at 09:03

Hobbes · Answer 1 · 2018-07-29T11:20:36.237

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Your premise is incorrect. Apollo 11 alone generated 3 hours of footage on the surface. The crews had cameras running almost continuously during EVAs (although some of it was at slow speed, down to 1 fps), that requires 75 hours of footage. A list of footage can be found via this answer.

In addition, there were lots of photos, some video in Moon orbit and on the transit from/to the Moon, video during descent and ascent from the Moon. Plus all the audio and telemetry channels (NASA has 19,000 hours of recordings from Apollo 11 alone).

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answered Jul 29 '18 at 09:25

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See also (for more information about audio recordings): https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/28235/how-were-the-flight-journals-of-the-apollo-missions-originally-transcribed-recor – Magic Octopus Urn Aug 01 '18 at 17:17

How much cgi would be needed to fake apollo

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