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Check this out: disturbingly realistic fake video shows Nixon announcing Apollo disaster

Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:24 pm
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:24 pm
LINK

Saw this making the rounds today

It is a “deepfake” video of an alternative history where Apollo 11 crashed.

NBC news article on the tech behind it
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 7:52 pm
Posted by OysterPoBoy
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:29 pm to
I’m excited for the potential good these deep fakes can do in the porn industry but they really are scary stuff.
Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:34 pm to
that's the actual speech in case that happened
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:35 pm to
The words are

But Nixon never gave that speech

Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:36 pm to
right, the words
i knew some smartass was gonna clarify
Posted by jlovel7
NOT Louisiana
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:39 pm to
I’m not sure I even want to watch this. I could not imagine an alternate history where the US moon landing does not happen.

It’s one of the cornerstones of American exceptionalism and one of our crowning achievements as a nation and a species.
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 7:40 pm
Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:40 pm to
The future is terrifying
Posted by OysterPoBoy
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:41 pm to
In this alternative history the landing actually happened but the astronauts died there. In our current timeline we never landed but didn’t die.
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 7:42 pm
Posted by LoneStar23
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:41 pm to
just imagine if they could do that to joe Biden if he had to debate over video.. oh wait..
Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:42 pm to
quote:

I’m excited for the potential good these deep fakes can do in the porn industry


Porn is a plague and cancer on our society and we should cut it out.

It’s not healthy and it’s not good.
Posted by Loup
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:43 pm to
Tears
Posted by efrad
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:43 pm to
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Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:44 pm to
I've read all of that contingency stuff. You can find it in the NASA online archives. The part that always stuck with me is that if they were lost on the moon or in space for any reason, Mission Control could brick the spacecraft's radios so the astronauts couldn't transmit panicked cries for help, condemnations, etc., that could be picked up by people on Earth.

They'd tell the astronauts that nothing could be done for them, get the families in for last goodbyes, then turn the radios off, have the chaplains essentially give them a burial at sea, and that was it. Michael Collins was trained to come home alone if that happened.

I'd imagine the stranded astronauts would just open the vents on the spacecraft and drift off due to hypoxia as their air bled out into space. It would be a fairly quick and painless way to go.
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 7:46 pm
Posted by cypresstiger
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Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:46 pm to
It’s not fake and it’s not alternate history. It’s real footage of a real announcement prepared by Nixon’s real speechwriters, read by real Nixon, in case the 2 Apollo 11 LM crew got stuck on the moon. CM pilot Michael Collins would have flown back to Earth alone.
Really.
Posted by The Boat
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:48 pm to
Forrest Gump was 25 years ahead of this
Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:51 pm to
Eisenhower wrote a communique taking full responsibility for the failure of the Normandy landings.
Posted by link
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:56 pm to
yoga girl wanted me to tell y’all that they’re working to perfect these deep fakes as quickly as they can so when the Hillary eating human flesh video comes out, she’ll have plausible deniability
Posted by EA6B
TX
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:56 pm to
quote:

Mission Control could brick the spacecraft's radios so the astronauts couldn't transmit panicked cries for help, condemnations, etc., that could be picked up by people on Earth.


There were a number of ordinary individuals not associated with NASA that were intercepting Apollo transmissions directly from the moon with home built equipment, one was a engineer my dad knew. Just another facet of the event that the “fake landing “ crowd have overlooked.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 7:58 pm to
quote:

There were a number of ordinary individuals not associated with NASA that were intercepting Apollo transmissions directly from the moon with home built equipment, one was a engineer my dad knew. Just another facet of the event that the “fake landing “ crowd have overlooked.

Nah, they'll just say that we sent a radio relay to the moon, but not people.

Those moonbats always have an answer.
Posted by rt3
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 8:05 pm to
we want an alternate history?

Apollo 13's issues crop up AFTER Lovell & Haise walk on the moon so the lunar module has already been jettisoned and can't be used as a lifeboat to get back to Earth

crew loses oxygen, doesn't have power to make course corrections to get back to Earth, etc
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