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Re: NASA - the tallest of all tales

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:16 am
by glg

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42yAOm7vI4

If not this thumbnail alone tells it all.

Re: NASA - the tallest of all tales

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:27 am
by Macaria
glg wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:16 am If not this thumbnail alone tells it all.
Re: Boldly Going Nowhere

In this "reality" TV show, they "mock up" RAF Bentwaters as a Russian rocket launch base.

They tell us it was:
-"once used by the US military throughout the cold war"
- location for filming scenes for Fast and the Furious 6, Wonder Woman, etc

So the site was involved in cold war shenanigans, is used by Hollywood for their "blockbusters" AND is a good place to stage rocket theatricals.
The turkeys are lining up here.
So, I'm just wondering... did they come up with all that rocket hoaxery stuff just for this one TV series, or has Bentwaters been a hoax haven for a little longer than they acknowledge, in particular, for the filming of space theatre.

At least, the location is related to some UFO stories (Waki):
RAF Bentwaters was the location of an 13–14 August 1956 nighttime radar and visual sighting of multiple UFOs (the Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident); it is also near the location of the alleged December 1980 UFO incident in Rendlesham Forest.

Re: NASA - the tallest of all tales

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:53 am
by Macaria
Re: Boldly Going Nowhere

Quote at the end of the film:
For me, one of the joys of television, it's one of the few mediums where budget, ambition, scale, spectacle can all come together, not necessarily to change the world, but to launch someone into fictional space on a simulator for no other reason than the entertainment challenge of doing so.
That's what TV is all about.
Of course, it's about more than entertainment.