Okay, explain it to me one more time.
Why do you think the moon landing was faked?
We're both skeptics, right? So think about it skeptically.
There's no way NASA had the technology
to go to the moon.
They just filmed it on a sound stage,
that would've been way easier.
Yeah, that's what conspiracy theorists think.
But the truth is faking the moon landing in 1969
actually would have been harder
than just going to the moon in the first place.
Here, I'll show you.
Fake Moon Landing, take one.
All right, in this scene you're on the moon
and we're fooling America
and action!
See? Stanley Kubrick just shot
a guy jumping around on set
and then they played it back on TV.
Sorry, but given the filmmaking
and lighting technology at the time,
that actually wouldn't have been possible.
Right, the lighting.
Look at how bright it is.
Look at these shadows.
This was clearly shot in a studio.
(lights powering on)
(man) Actually...
creating that lighting would've been
essentially impossible in a studio.
Melinda, meet Mark Schubin.
He's a forensic motion picture analyst
and an Emmy-winning light fellow
of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
Thanks, Adam. Using image forensics,
I can tell you that the light source
we see in the moon footage is actually
parallel sun rays with no diffusion.
If you look at the photos from the Apollo mission,
all the shadows are parallel
because the light source is 93 million miles away.
that same photo
using studio lighting, the shadows diverge.
Back in the '60s,
that effect would be
of laser lights
to build a wall of millions of laser lights of laser lights
they'd be like
pixels on a TV screen.
No, no, no, no, no!
This lighting is all wrong!
I need lasers, Peter! Lasers!
But lasers back then were big and costly,
so rigging together that many of that size
would've required an enormous apparatus
that probably would've cost more than the entire Apollo project.
Perfect! This is great!
Now we just need millions of these lasers.
Oh, uh, I don't know if that's in our budget...
Or the country's.
Honestly, Peter...
you make me furious.
(Mark) And in those days, And in those days,
the only lasers that were practically available were red.
Which means that color photos we have from the moon landing
would have been impossible.
I can't shoot in red light!
It makes this moon look like a bordello!
Correction! We need millions
of ultra rare, multi-colored lasers.
How do I explain... I mean, that's not even a remotel--
(high-pitched voice) "How do I explain... Even a remotely..."
Go back to film school, Peter!
Now today, we could recreate
the correct lighting with computer graphics.
Hmm.
I've asked my colleagues in forensics
and in movie production and given the parallel light rays
and the detailed color photos, we just cannot think of
any way they could've faked the moon landing
with the technology they had at the time.
Thanks, Mark.
Convinced?
Maybe that's what they want you to think.
What if NASA secretly created computer graphics
and just kept it from us for 40 years?
Well, then an astronomical number of people
would've had to keep that secret.
Like over 400,000 NASA employees...
You want all 400,000 of us to keep our mouths shut?
Good luck. We love gossip.
Spain and England
who said they independently picked up
the moon landing transmission from space...
And why would we lie for you?
You're always making fun of our Vegemite.
(Adam) ... And the Russians, our Space Race rivals
who had every reason to prove us wrong.
It's been 50 years, and we haven't even
claimed that you faked it.
You beat us fair and square this time.
But we'll get you back... (snickering)
in 2016!
But where's the tangible proof that we went to the moon, huh?
Actually, there is.
While the astronauts were on the moon,
they laid out a reflective material
called retro reflectors.
So today, when an observatory on Earth
aims a high-powered laser at them,
it bounces right back.
Cut! Cut! Shut it down!
This is impossible!
Oh, no, no, no! Wait!
It still could have been faked.
All you'd have to do is secretly develop
computer graphics technology decades ahead of its time,
convince multiple governments to lie on our behalf,
and then somehow get retro reflectors
to the moon without actually going there.
You could that, right?
Forget it, lady. It'd be easier to
put a man on the moon.