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I do like the joke that the moon landing was faked by Stanley Kubrick, but that he was such an auteur that he would only do it if he could film on location. :)
Fun comic!
It's wrong, though. Kubrick hated travelling and filming on location. He had NASA send astronauts to the moon to shoot the backgrounds, but filmed everything in London. (As part of the payment, he got the lens he used to film Barry Lyndon, which had been designed to film the dark side of the moon and allowed him to shoot scenes lit only by candlelight).
The dark side of the moon isn't dark, btw. It gets as much light as the other side.
If we're getting pedantic, you're talking about the far side of the Moon, not the dark side. The dark side is the side that isn't lit and that changes over the lunar cycle.
I assume the lenses were intended to allow the Apollo missions to photograph the literal dark side of the moon, i.e., the side not lit by the sun while the capsule was passing over it, since they couldn't wait half a month for it to get well lit and making the lenses was almost certainly cheaper than launching more capsules to make sure they covered every bit. π€·ββοΈ
Whatever the case, they were very βfastβ lenses (that is, they had a very large relative aperture), which allowed cameras using them to get good pictures under very poor lighting conditions, like a big black rock lit by starlight or some XVIII century crooks lit by candlelight.
Thanks.
Mr. Kubrick was such a perfectionist. π
It is a good one. It was at least amusing.
But it would probably go better if there weren't 20 other jokes sharing the same 4 panels.
I came here to say this. Brilliant.