Apollo 18! (There's a reason we never went back)

Looks like fun!

Apollo 18 Movie Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F6DU6gx7-w


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Jonathan wrote:
Looks like fun!

OTOH...

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie.

;-)

Dave

On 8/20/2011 3:02 PM, David Spain wrote:

OTOH...

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie.

It would be fun to see how well they did the Soviet LK lander:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/a...x/lklander.jpg
Looks pretty good from what little you can see of it in the photo.

Pat

"David Spain" wrote in message
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Jonathan wrote:
Looks like fun!

OTOH...

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie.


The trailer has over a million hits on Utube, looks like it might
be a fairly big budget sci-fi. Too few of them these days.
And they seem to have combined the popular story lines
of urban legend, vampires and conspiracy theories into
a nice creepy format. Instead of a haunted house on some
lonely hill, they're cooped-up in that little LEM.

Here's another trailer with some additional scenes.
The very last scene is interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ynp...eature=related




;-)

Dave

On Aug 20, 5:02*pm, David Spain wrote:

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie..

A lot of people saw "The Blair Witch Project", so why couldn't this
one get an audience?

Of course, the premise is silly; after all, if the Moon parasites
attacked the astronauts _on_ the Moon, as this was _after_ the launch,
how do you explain the fact that no one remembers watching the launch
of Apollo 18 with Walter Cronkite?

I'm sure they thought of _something_, like a secret military mission
to check up on a failed Russian moon landing, but then they should
have called the film "Apollo 17 1/2" or "UIMMM-1" (USAF Investigative
Manned Moon Mission - 1).

Also, there's the Case of the Missing Expensive Lawn Ornament to be
concerned about...

John Savard

"Quadibloc" wrote in message
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On Aug 20, 5:02 pm, David Spain wrote:

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie.

A lot of people saw "The Blair Witch Project", so why couldn't this
one get an audience?

Right, all those fuzzy and halting moon videos have a
'blair witch' feel to it.

Of course, the premise is silly; after all, if the Moon parasites
attacked the astronauts _on_ the Moon, as this was _after_ the launch,

None of the above are facts in evidence. My impression is closer
to little underground moon vampires scurrying about~
But then it could be the russians were up to something, they were
awefully good with all the paranormal and mind-control stuff
back then.


how do you explain the fact that no one remembers watching the launch
mof Apollo 18 with Walter Cronkite?

Well no one ever heard of Apollo 20 either
Maybe this long secret video explains things better~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqR8zDGIwMo



I'm sure they thought of _something_, like a secret military mission
to check up on a failed Russian moon landing, but then they should
have called the film "Apollo 17 1/2" or "UIMMM-1" (USAF Investigative
Manned Moon Mission - 1).


There must be SOME reason we never went back?
It couldn't be that the moon is just a worthless pile of
rocks and dust.


Also, there's the Case of the Missing Expensive Lawn Ornament to be
concerned about...


Maybe Andy Griffith mounted a salvage mission to the moon
and sold it off at auction.



John Savard

On Aug 21, 10:14*am, "Jonathan" wrote:
"Quadibloc" wrote in message

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On Aug 20, 5:02 pm, David Spain wrote:

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie.
A lot of people saw "The Blair Witch Project", so why couldn't this
one get an audience?

Right, all those fuzzy and halting moon videos have a
'blair witch' feel to it.

Of course, the premise is silly; after all, if the Moon parasites
attacked the astronauts _on_ the Moon, as this was _after_ the launch,

None of the above are facts in evidence. My impression is closer
to little underground moon vampires scurrying about~
But then it could be the russians were up to something, they were
awefully good with all the paranormal and mind-control stuff
back then.

how do you explain the fact that no one remembers watching the launch
mof Apollo 18 with Walter Cronkite?

Well no one ever heard of Apollo 20 either
Maybe this long secret video explains things better~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqR8zDGIwMo

I'm sure they thought of _something_, like a secret military mission
to check up on a failed Russian moon landing, but then they should
have called the film "Apollo 17 1/2" or "UIMMM-1" (USAF Investigative
Manned Moon Mission - 1).

There must be SOME reason we never went back?
It couldn't be that the moon is just a worthless pile of
rocks and dust.

Also, there's the Case of the Missing Expensive Lawn Ornament to be
concerned about...

Maybe Andy Griffith mounted a salvage mission to the moon
and sold it off at auction.



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could a saturn 5 have been launched to moon orbit from vandenberg?

was it technically possible??

"bob haller" skrev i meddelelsen
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could a saturn 5 have been launched to moon orbit from vandenberg?

was it technically possible??

Technically? Probably, at some payload penalty because of Vandenberg's
more northerly location. But the launch, of necessity going east, would
have been over a densely populated area - not nice in case of a crash of
something with the chemical energy of a small nuclear warhead. And the S-IC
stage would fall 560 km east of the launch site anyway, which from VAFB
would not be in the Atlantic Ocean, but a little past the border to Arizona
as far as I can tell.
If you want to launch into a polar orbit around the Earth, and then to
the Moon, you get a great big delta-v penalty... plus of course you need to
duplicate the KSC launch facilities on VAFB.

Jon Lennart Beck.

On Aug 21, 8:14*am, "Jonathan" wrote:

Well no one ever heard of Apollo 20 either
Maybe this long secret video explains things better~

And here I was expecting the "Iron Sky" trailer...

John Savard

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"David Spain" wrote in message
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Jonathan wrote:
Looks like fun!

OTOH...

There's a reason most of the movie going public will never see this movie.


The trailer has over a million hits on Utube, looks like it might
be a fairly big budget sci-fi.

No, it's very low budget from the look of it. Put two guys in front of
a static camera, or have one of the a characters filming the other.
Basically, Paranormal Activity with CGI

--
Chris Mack "If we show any weakness, the monsters will get cocky!"
'Invid Fan' - 'Yokai Monsters Along With Ghosts'