I guess most of them don't make very good TV." "I made some suggestions but sadly they didn't use any of them. An astronomer who worked with the Hubble Space Telescope, Plait created a website, Bad Astronomy, aimed at dispelling astronomy and science based myths, including the moon hoax, which expanded into books and his recent appointment as president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. "The Bad Astronomer", in an interview with collectSPACE. "I was actually first involved with the Mythbusters early on, when I was contacted by one of their producers asking if I had any astronomical myths for them to bust," shared Dr. To narrow the field however, the Mythbusters sought the assistance of someone very familiar with debunking the moon hoax myth, or they would have if he had not come calling first. "We wanted to tackle the ones that actually take some experimentation to prove," added Savage. Adam and I are experienced effects artists, so it was natural for us to dig into it." "The key idea was that the footage that proved we were there was a special effect. "We took the low hanging fruit," Hyneman concurred. "We looked at the ones that for some reason or other, seemed most prevalent," explained Savage in an e-mail to collectSPACE. As special effects experts, Hyneman felt they were well suited for the subject.įirst however, they needed to choose which parts of the myth to test. Hoax believers have had 40 years to devise reasons why the Apollo moon landings must have been filmed in an Earth-based studio. Kari Byron works to recreate the Apollo 15 feather and hammer test in one of NASA's vacuum chambers. So, with their feet firmly planted on the Earth (at least for most of the time, but more on that later), Hyneman and Savage, along with fellow Mythbusters Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara, set out to use science to 'bust' or confirm the truth behind the hoaxers' claims. "Dude, I sooo wished we could have gone there," Savage admitted. Too bad that the footage got lost in transit to the editors," Hyneman told collectSPACE, explaining that their limited budget would not cover the cost of regular rocket fuel. "We built a hybrid rocket that was fueled by poo and nitrous oxide - thought we had enough Teflon tape on the seals but the stink got through anyway. Three years later, the Mythbusters are ready to share the results of their 'trip' as they devote their next show, airing on Wednesday, to the moon landing hoax. "Jamie and I have done the research, and figured that the only way to end the debate about the 'myth' of the Apollo moon landing is to go there," Savage replied to Slashdot, a technology news website, about the belief held by some that the United States faked the lunar landings. This detail hints at accessories to come, like some padded bays for camera equipment or a waterproof bucket-like insert for toting a 12-pack.- In 2005, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, special effects experts better known by the title of their popular Discovery Channel series, "MythBusters", were asked during an interview about the myth they would most like to test provided an unlimited budget. On the Kevlar-reinforced bottom, there are strips of velcro. There's a pocket inside to hold your notebooks (Savage adores Tom Sachs Ten Bullets notebooks, though he says his pocket is brand-agnostic) and, via a stack of horizontal loops, your pens and pencils. Unzip and pry open the bag, and it holds its shape in that configuration too, thanks to a pair of spring steel inserts that run around the lip and keep the mouth agape like the jaw of a whale shark. Also clever: The straps are stiff enough that the clasped handle stays propped upright like a little pup tent frame. You just bring the handles near one another and they jump together with a satisfying clonk. The handles are held together by magnets instead of snaps or velcro, which, if you've fiddled with those types of closures on your own bag, is a welcome innovation. It's constructed almost entirely out of upcycled cloth from boat sails, so each bag has some unique quirks, and every specimen comes off the production line with a broken-in look. It only comes in white, at least for now.
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