NASA’s own lies and trickery continue to help members accept defeat!
There are many technical breakdowns that happen while faking a ISS live feed. They have been caught using virtual reality gear, beaming things into view and all types of NASA trickery. Mike Helmick exposes this in detail.
The fake NASA ISS interior - a technical breakdown by Mike Helmick
An oldie, but a goodie. For one, this guy just can't stop mispronouncing augmented. "Ah-gyu-mented..." Over and over again. And my favorite is "Contact virtual reality ah-gyu-mented lenses..." The what?
As for the doll grab in the first clip super easy, I’ve done a million of these in my work.
- Screen grab a frame
- Place the object where you want it so it doesn't obscure anything moving in the frame.
- Crudely marquee and copy the shape of where the object is from the screen grab, keep that, discard the rest.
- Place the shape copy on top of the object so it covers it. (The object is there in reality, just hidden by this)
- Where you want in the timeline, add a cross-dissolve to the shape copy
- Across the same frames as above add your teleport animation in that same space in the frame
The shape copy disappears, the teleportation effect happens and the object is revealed because it was there the whole time. No Contact virtual reality ah-gyu-mented lenses required. It’s probably the first thing you learn in compositing aside from titling - would take me all of 2 minutes to do. No voodoo here.
What’s really wrong here is that after the clip is played, Mike Helmick says, “So what is significant about this video is number one it was live to schoolchildren…there’s only one way to pull that off, it’s virtual reality…”
A) The video was not ‘live’ to school children. It’s part of a 9 minute video called "Barycentric balls in space - classroom demonstration video, VP07b” part of ESA’s “Teach with Space” series. It was
never live.
B) There is literally no “virtual reality" going on with gloves and goggles/lenses, as laid out above, so he’s completely and utterly wrong about that too.
He goes on to reference Telemetrics Inc as providing virtual reality and ah-gyu-mented technology to Johnson Space Center. When in reality, that's not even what Telemetrics does. They have robotic camera control systems. That's what they do, let you control, pan, tilt, gimbal, etc., cameras remotely. That's it. No ah-gyu-mentation.
Lastely all of the "glitches" he runs through are pathetic. He just states things matter of factually, "Her necklace moves unnaturally..." No it doesn't. "The way his fingers grabbed the mic is impossible..." No it's not. He makes so many assumptions based upon no evidence it's staggering.
He literally has zero knowledge about video, none. Yet he goes on to make up all kinds of things that there is no evidence for.
To recap:
- So yeah, he can't pronounce 'augment'
- He lies about the first clip being 'live' to school children
- He completely botches and fabricates an explanation as to how the first shot was done
- He makes up something about
Contact virtual reality ah-gyu-mented lenses that astronauts wear
- Makes up and is completely wrong about the products and services the Telemtrics Inc supplies
- Zero knowledge about virtual sets, augmented reality, masking, channels, video compression...nothing, zip.
This guy is a bible thumping FEr with no practical knowledge about anything that he is speaking of so he just makes it up. This is one of the more shockingly disingenuous videos - Haven't seen it in a while - still shocking.