Why the Lunar Module 'looked fake'

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[reachandler]

I've always thought it strange that those who believe the footage was faked in a studio wouldn't wonder why they didn't use something that looked more robust and realistic.

[MightyMattTM]

“The fact it looked so fake validates the fact it was real” uh oh. Flerfs aren’t going to like that sentence

[KSparks]

I've used the "crumpled foil = less contact area" idea for 40+ years, too. If your cooking a pizza, french fries, or anything in the oven, wad up a piece of foil and then gently flatten it back out a bit (like at 9:20) to cook your food on. Acts like a non-stick surface. Works like a champ!

[AlexandroMechina-ybtf]

"Looks like made of tinfoil and you can punch through it"
Boys at Grumman:
-Exactly!!!

[wswordsmen]

Charles Lindbergh wasn't the first person to fly across the Atlantic, or even the Atlantic non-stop. He was the first person to do it alone, aka a solo flight. John Alcock and Arthur Brown were actually the first to do so in June 1919, which was 16 years after the Wright brothers first flight. 1969 is 12 years after Sputnik which puts it in line with with the same jump in difficulty.

[tsopmocful]

I remember all of this being explained at the time when I was just a tiny kid, and it all made perfect sense.
That adults over half a century later can't understand it is very sad.

[fedos]

They hear "made out aluminum", see the Mylar film, and think "oh, that must be aluminum foil".

[donovandewitt]

I like the way you give your answers without insults to people who just have questions they'd like answered...cheers

[dcbly]

I’m an astronomer and I do a lot of public outreach. Every time I setup a telescope and point it to the Moon I get a few people who tell me the landing was fake. If they become insistent I tell them the same story. “NASA paid Stanley Kubrick to fake the landing, but Kubrick, being Kubrick, demanded to film on location”. 😁

[swinde]

The "foil" that was on the Lunar Module was made of Kapton. This alloy is very effective in shielding anything under it from heat.
I used to work for a medical electronics company. We had what is called "Kapton tape". Most of the electronics in the 2000s were surface mount and many with 80 or more contacts. To remove an 80 pin microprocessor, a hot air soldering removal tool was used. These processors had dozens of small surface mounted components all around them. The Kapton tape was applied to the coprocessor and also over all of the components around it to shield the heat of the de-solder tool and isolate it to the contacts of the big chip. The tape was the same "gold" color as the protective foil on the lander.

[tmqsjoj]

Haven't watched and im certain this is the video but my dad and I talked about it when I was a child, like grade school and it took me about 7 seconds to understand that it needed to be light as possible and because it would not encounter any friction of any kind and because it would operate in an environment where everything would be much lighter it didn't need to be very strong. It took my dad 10 seconds to explain to a gradeschooler and these grown adults can't put this together. These people are straight embarrassing

[michaelhorning]

Volkswagen actually had an ad that showed a VW Beetle and a lunar lander. The tagline was: "Ugly, but it gets you there."
EDIT: I misremembered the ad. It just shows a model of the lunar lander, the tagline, and a VW logo. See link below.

[shooter]

''Quite an eyesore''
I honestly, have always kinda liked it. I don't know why, but there's something weirdly endearing about the crumbled coppery look.

[craigcorson]

Lindbergh was NOT the first person to cross the Atlantic in a plane. He was the first to do so SOLO.

[notgonnahappen]

"Carefully thought out reasons" is a concept that escapes flat earth nuts.

[pjimmbojimmbo]

That Foil was actually several layers of Mylar. Each Layer was crumbled individually before installation

[MrJiffytiffy]

Flat earthers are the definition of "double think". It's funny to me. Like in one breath they will say this and that about nasa's millions of dollars budget, in the next nasa is using tinfoil and cheap stuff to fake it... because that makes sense...

[bustedshark]

Idiocy is timeless! I'm sure there was some conspiracy nutter back in 1912 who said, "If the Titanic had been tested on land it would never have sunk".

[bab]

A friend of mine at Grumman worked on the Lunar Module and indeed for weight purposes the aluminum walls were very thin, only 3-4 times thicker than a soda can.

[stevetheduck]

The LEM (later the LM) had such stringent weight-saving procedures that the crew of two had no seats, had wires that connected to their suits to keep them in place, were weightless almost all of the time during descent, and once landed, had only one hammock on later flights.

After Apollo 11's landing, the astronauts slept one curled up on the descent engine cover, the other down under the instrument panel, like being in the footwell of a car.

An uncomfortable night, with all the gurgling and buzzing from the machinery, water recirculation, etc.