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Originally Posted by Graeme S
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Didn't Mythbusters already destroy the "moon landing hoax" one pretty conclusively?
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Originally Posted by StylinRed
so if high speed cameras weren't commercially available in 1969 as he claims we know the military had them almost 20years before that
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Yeah, something a lot of these theories seem to forget, is that JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO TECHNOLOGY, is actually available somewhere LONG before it's released "commercially". Digital cameras didn't just magically appear in stores one day and there was no such thing before that. Prototypes, early designs, early attempts at most devices, are often around years or even decades before the general public knows about them... and they're available to anyone who has the money to pay for them (ie. governments, the military, etc.)
I don't think most people these days realize what it was like before Al Gore invented the Internet: we didn't have all this information foisted upon us about new and upcoming tech. People in this age are almost conditioned to NOT be surprised at new tech, because we're hearing about it almost from its inception. Pre-internet, new tech could be in design and development for ages and if you weren't actively seeking out information on it, you wouldn't know about it until it hit a commercially viable price point and you saw it in stores. Something that had been around for 20 years would seem like a new and innovative idea to most people, while today, our RSS feeds and Twitter feeds are loaded with "Hey, someone just thought of this great new thing".
Hell, the internet itself is like that: people think it's something that just magically appeared in 1995, but the fact is, its roots go back to the 1950s, and it was in common use by the military *and universities* since the 70s. It just wasn't until the 90s that public ISPs came to the fore to sell public access to it.
BTW, digital audio recording isn't new either... when Edison was first developing "wax cylinder recording" in the late 1800s, he had the concept of storing audio digitally... but the technology to make it possible was still over 100 years away.