(Announcement starts at 4:40)
He wrote a speech for it. FDR had a speech for D-day failing. Ike had a resignation letter for D-day failing. Best to plan ahead sometimes.
“My fellow Americans,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I saw them crash
and you saw it too.”
As with Photoshop and digital images, in a few years, the accuracy and reliability of surveillance video will always be suspect.
That deepfake could have helped making the cheap horror film, Apollo 18, appear even more historically authentic by putting deep fakes of the President in them.
Newt Gingrich wrote alternate reality novels about Lee winning at Gettysburg and the aftermath. I’m not personally fond of such, but that type of premise does have an audience.
“was read aloud by an actor.”
Interesting that the technology to make authentic fake video look good has been around at least since the movie Forrest Gump, but we don’t have the tech yet to produce authentic-sounding synthesized voices.
The ‘disaster video’ has been known for years and years. I saw the transcript of the video on the NASA channel, for goodness’ sake!.
These people are really sick, seriously!
There are lots of what-ifs I like to explore in history.
This is not one of them.
Collins would have made it back...the author makes it sound like all 3 astronauts would have perished.