APOLLO 18 (Lunar Arachnid Biology, Toxins + Ending) EXPLAINED

Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained and as voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be exploring Apollo 18.
During the Apollo program, six crewed missions would land on the Moon collecting lunar material that was returned back to earth (with a seventh, Apollo 13, notably requiring James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise to make a tense emergency return to Earth without making it to the moon.
Throughout each of the successful missions, twelve astronauts performed a number of studies and observations that would shape our understanding of the Moon. Each of the voyages were required to explore new areas of the surface and leave behind nuclear-powered instruments that continued to send information back to Earth, long after they left.
But the Apollo program would end in December 1972 with Apollo 17. Why did that happen?
The Canadian/American production written by Brian Miller and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego follows the apollo 18 mission. Through found-footage recovered from the voyage, we learn the supposed cancelled mission had actually made its way to the moon.
Nestled between an explosion of Alien movies released in 2011, including Super 8, Battle: Los Angeles, The Darkest Hour, Cowboys and Aliens, I am Number Four, Paul, and The Thing (the prequel we covered last week) Apollo 18 is a fascinating piece of revisionist history.
Taking elements from films like The Blair Witch Project and Alien, the mayhem that followed is explained as being the reason why the US abandoned any further attempts of heading back to the moon again.
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[@RonaldMcreepy]

I remember this movie. my cousin convinced me that this _WAS_ the reason why there was no Apollo 18. and I believed him😂

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[@irvingramirez2335]

Bro same 😂ah 2011 simpler times

[@nmstranger]

what took it out from me is they called the Soviet LK lander and the dead cosmonaut as Russian. Could be wrong but when this "found footage" took place was December 1974. The astronauts were former military and certainly employees of NASA. They would of referred it as Soviet and Soviets and not Russian.

[@disbeafakename167]

@@nmstranger I dunno, my dad called anything east of Germany Russian.

[@nmstranger]

@@disbeafakename167 was your dad doing a military function or a governmental function like for example NASA and fun fact a lot of Soviet equivalent of NASA main guys and designers were German. The lander would of been called Soviet as Russia wasn't a country at that time. They would of also said "I didn't know the Soviets was here" instead of Russian's was here. Russians back during that period was just used as people that was ethnically Russian the USSR was part of present day Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union into many a separate countries and prior to the USSR forming you have parts of Imperial Russia or the Russian Empire that was ethnically Russian. Did the lame person use the term Russia as catch all term for the USSR? Sure BUT certainly not during a mission in NASA and DOJ like the found footage film supposed to of been.

[@Bleh200]

I give massive props to the filmmakers for actually making it look like an old piece of recovered film. Everyone praises the likes of Paranormal Activity 3, which is supposed to be set in the 80s, yet it’s filmed on HD cameras. Underrated film.

[@shainewhite2781]

I know this was not well received, but, my god, this movie is terrifying! I'll never forget the tagline: "There's a reason why we never went back to the moon."

[@azraelwolfsblood2902]

It definitely wasn’t because it was expensive as fuck to go to the moon and there was nothing fucking there

[@LoneTiger]

Nuke the moon!

[@Emily-ck9ji]

Seriously. I loved this movie, personally, and have a great fondness for it. I always wanted to know more. Lol

[@chinopuertorico]

This is based on a true story. We are not allowed back. Due to conflict with the moon people. Or whatever they are.

[@benjimlem1284]

Yeah, while the movie aint the best there is something really unnerving about it - I think it's a mix of four hugely scary things - being lost in a place where nobody can help you, your own government lying to you, spoopy aliens AND body horror, yeah, it gets pretty scary.

[@zenerstorm95]

I've always been fascinated with this film. I think a completely insane ending that I thought up is the Moon itself is an arachnid but due to the Sun it lays dormant most of the time, with only half of it's body waking up once it gets dark

[@jessebushka467]

If this was true and I knew the moon was a giant spider, I'd take the easy way out tbh. Screw that crap!

[@danieladomeit9696]

This thought reminds me of the brethren moons from dead space, if you've never heard of them, pls, look em up

[@dubbiethihi5366]

@@danieladomeit9696 holy shit yes, thats actually such a creepy fucking concept. With all moons just being big ass arachnids.

[@BirdOfHermes2113]

Yes to the Dead Space reference and original comment

[@joypowell8190]

What if the moon was like a cacoon or crystalst of some kind

[@GandalfTheLysergic]

This movie came out when I was 12 and I was obsessed with the Apollo missions and space flight in general at the time (still kinda am). I went and saw this movie with my parents and loved it so much that when I got home I pre-ordered the movie 😂 No joke at all. I still have it on DVD sitting in the room right next to me! For what it is, I still think it’s a great concept! I will always have fond memories of this movie ❤

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[@Mindboggles]

Funny thing is, if something like this would happen, there would be even more incentive to go back to the moon.

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[@jessebushka467]

Sez you, I say nuke the fuckin moon! POW RIGHT IN THE KISSER!

[@adaeptzulander2928]

@@jessebushka467 Aliens style -- I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[@Mortablunt]

Given our tendencies as a species we would go back there to kick ass. We are the same species that decided to use pointy sticks to kill off entire living trains of angry beasts the size of houses as our favorite method of getting food for thousands of years and only stopped when we had finally killed them all. Moon spiders ain’t shit.

[@Frankie431]

@@Mortablunt we’ll bomb the fuck out of them and then send the space marines and show them what freedom really is. 😂 if we actually got out shit together we would probably have permanent bases on the moon.

[@ILEFTCAPS0N]

NASA employee: "Oh hey you guys are back early" Astronaut: "Moon's haunted." NASA employee: "What?" Astronaut: **loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship** "Moon's haunted."

[@cowz1812]

What’s this refrence from?

[@revvy7973]

@@cowz1812 destiny (video game)

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Never expected a "found-footage" style movie in space.

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[@RVGENomini]

Look up Europa Report, also an excellent found footage space film.

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

They should make a sequel that takes place in the 80s. And in the movie they find more than just spider rocks , they find a alien moon base . Now that would be cool

[@caileanthomson1286]

Is this film perfect? No. Is it maybe hard to believe in concept? Maybe. Is it possible to take such a film and make it sound believable? Yes. Once again, Niyat, your work does you all the credit. Always happy to see your channel post new content, even on a subject as "Lost footage from a 1974 Apollo mission that has never been seen, or talked about, until now..."

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[@mrmhj9925]

Why is it hard to believe? Just curious because how do we know what’s out there.. you know?

[@Thecrazymonkey49]

@@mrmhj9925 Well for a start, the idea that complex organisms could even develop in an environment with no atmosphere or liquid water. That is somewhat hard to believe.

[@zacharygiles2984]

@@Thecrazymonkey49 whose to say that life needs what it does on earth everywhere else.

[@domomitsune5920]

This would be an interesting reason on why we have never returned to the moon. A mission that had gone horribly wrong because alien life was picking us off one at a time up there. And both the government and NASA just settles too expensive to keep going back to the moon, never explaining that there were creatures out there killing people. Living the best conspiracy, ever if that was to be revealed.

[@desertdude8274]

Honestly we would go back to the moon if this happened.

[@alexandermclaughlin4742]

I remember seeing this in theatres and the scene where the astronaut is in a deep dark pit and needs to flash his way out was hella scary because of each time the flash went off the scene got more and more scary each time 💀💀💀💀

[@jaggedstar1537]

I wish space horror such as this and Dead Space was more popular. It truly is a terrifying type of horror. So isolated and hopeless

[@fernandoharo3738]

This is my personal theory that explains not only the existence of these lunar crabs/spiders but also fills in some other gaps of this movie. These creatures are most likely not native to the Moon. These creatures probably might not even be considered actual "aliens". My theory is that these creatures were somehow actually created on Earth as a secret bio-weapon for the US government/military to use against the Soviets should they ever reach the Moon. That would explain the lack of extraterrestrial incidents or disappearances from the previous Apollo missions as these creatures did not exist yet on the moon. The US government/ military knew it was only a matter of time before the Russians landed on the Moon and so it used all the data and information it gathered from the previous Apollo lunar missions to somehow bio-engineer a small crab-like species that is able to survive on the lunar surface and camouflage itself as a moon rock but also be extremely hostile and have a certain level of intelligence. I'm guessing that this species is also able to reproduce asexually. What more than likely happened is that the US government got wind of a secret upcoming Soviet mission to the Moon and sent a sample of this new bio-weapon to the moon on the last Apollo mission before the Russians could land there and had the astronauts release it onto the Moon before departing. The crab spider species then more than likely started to propagate and multiply and possibly even evolve further on the moon. By the time the secret Russian lander finally touched down on the moon the Russian cosmonaut was taken out by this new bio-weapon. This would explain the need for the Apollo 18 mission and the secrecy behind it. The US government / military wanted to see the results of its new bio-weapon and further study it in its new environment, so it sent an expendable crew of three astronauts to complete that mission, only for everything to go wrong, and for the government/military to cover it up. And because this new hostile species has pretty much taken over the surface of the Moon that explains why we have not gone back to the Moon. But that's just my theory.

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[@filmcomicsexplained]

I appreciate that!

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[@tonymoviechappied9neillblo996]

My second favorite found footage movie of all time and just one of my horror movies in general

[@DimeMagnet]

What’s the first?

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[@brentchesson2179]

Cloverfield was always a good one too.

[@Roger17090]

​@@brentchesson2179Cloverfield and Rec were the gems.

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

​@@tonymoviechappied9neillblo996I like 2 👍1 is also great

[@AllBreaksLoose]

This is one of those horror sci Fi films that I actually enjoyed aside from the shaky cam was a bit much at times. Thanks for the coverage on this little gem of a film!

[@scottkelly1685]

Thanks for covering this! I watched Apollo 18 shortly after viewing the better Europa Report, and thought A18 did a good job capturing the uncertainty and terror of its premise. Maybe I'll give A18 as a Christmas present to a relative who recently revealed he doesn't believe the moon landings were real, just to tweak his crazy mind.

[@marisseandgale5365]

Prank em John!

[@travisbishop782]

Go for it!

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[@keynanmartinez]

It's pretty terrifying we don't know anything about space and this movie right here could prove it's horrors if we bring it to earth.

[@d3l3tes00n]

I'd be more worried about the unexplored depths of the sea on our own planet. Who knows what's been down there this whole time.

[@Lurkai]

@@d3l3tes00n its patrick...patrick is down there

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[@spinosaurusstriker]

​@@d3l3tes00n nah, most of it is empty and even if there is, it looks like sperm whales can handle them just fine.

[@d3l3tes00n]

@@spinosaurusstriker How could it be empty? lol That's like saying space is empty.

[@konstantinoskaragiannis1596]

"Apollo 18"(2011) is a good enough horror sci-fi movie! This is an atmospheric and some moments very creepy movie!

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[@-therlc5346]

This movie freaked me out when I saw it at age 15. First horror movie I ever watched in high school. Still one of my favorites ^^

[@michaelgarner1951]

Thank you i had no idea what that movie was about kept falling asleep before all the good stuff

[@Icyangel10]

It's interesting you think they're arachnids, I remember seeing a video were the guy believed they were some kind of crab. The footage of one crawling when you started talking about unused endings is clear/focused enough in shot that their legs look crab like & have pinchers. Anyway this was an interesting video & makes me want to see the movie again. I think I haven't seen it since high school.

[@redt3788]

I remember my brother introduced me to this movie when I watched it I was surprised by the ending

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[@paracetamolicecream]

One of the most horrifying movies I've ever watched! Besides a couple of cheesy jump scares the whole thing is just intense! That's the horror I like. Make me paranoid, give me nightmares. dont just jump at me with a loud noise - I want the fear to stay after the film is over

[@nhoj4375]

I remember having to explain to my grandma who was somehow convinced this movie was real footage 😅

[@authenticNL2]

How'd that go?

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

One of the few alien themed films which postulates that the archnemesis is neither the extraterrestrial monster, nor some evil corporation led by greedy sociopaths... but the NASA and the Powers That Be.

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[@JackDWhiskers]

Love this movie!!

[@ricktow66lcc83]

I loved the movie because it talked about the Soviets landing on the Moon. Being a Cold War history buff and a proud American, I'm happy that we beat the Soviets to the Moon. However, I would love to see a movie which would show an alternate history about the Soviets ALSO making it there, wether they made it first or if they landed after we did. The special effects of Apollo 18 really makes it looks like the surface of the Moon, even better than "First Man" did. Though the movie tanked at the box-office, I still believe it's better than most of the garbage Hollywood is shoveling out now.

[@unownyoutuber9049]

the show for all man kind has a great first season about the soviets landing on the moon first. The second and third seasons drop in quality a lot but its first season is great

[@crane7472]

The Soviets beat ya'll to space though. First man in space was Yuri Gagarin

[@ricktow66lcc83]

@@crane7472 The "Finish Line" of the "Space Race" was humans walking on the Moon and returning them back safely. The Soviets lost.

[@crane7472]

@@ricktow66lcc83 A race to space and a race to the moon are two competely different goals/objectives. The Soviets objectively won the race to space, while the USA won the moon race.

[@ricktow66lcc83]

@@crane7472 My initial text is about the race to the Moon, which the US won and the only goal that most people acknowledge. Though I admit that the USSR had lots of "firsts" in space, it was all done with the goal of reaching the Moon. Only the US has done that.

[@scoclego6040]

Id love for them to make more movies out of this and explore the ecosystem on the moon and maybe an invasion from them tagging along on the way home.

[@jasonreyna7615]

One of my guilty pleasures. The fact they were able to interfere with comms

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[@daddymothmaster2920]

Apollo 18 is such a great and underrated film.

[@user-hi2pf3mv2e]

Fun fact majority of astronauts have prior military service mainly the navy!

[@o8thnaspliff]

Saw this in theaters and I still enjoy this film to this day.

[@RaginCanadian-gx2zl]

The best part of the movie is how they dont ever show you the monster. You get glimpses but there isnt a scene where you get a full shot of one.

[@BanishedSilentShadow3318]

Imagine going back in time around the late 60s and showed this film to anyone. They probably wouldn't look at the moon the same again

[@X2yt]

Man, they had better video quality in the 80s than they have now.

[@Astronauts777]

Glad to see Apollo 18 some what relevant

[@ShadeMeadows]

Really want more of the Moon Crabs

[@Jay_Dub1120]

On god this movie is a hidden gem, I still love it to this day

[@finder2342]

Found this in someone's relaxing playlist💀

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Yo wth. For real? lol This is hilarious

[@rattelv426]

great work as always, mate.

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[@adrianchannelle8651]

Definitely one of the best "shaky cam" horror films. I put it right up there with Cloverfield.

[@Roger17090]

And Rec. The trinity.

[@Oniontrololol]

Those rock crabs reminds me of the rock crabs from pirates of the carribean when Jack sparrow was trapped xD

[@EmpireofSpeedNY]

Very underrated film in the "found footage" genre. "CLOVERFIELD" is another.

[@TheJoeSwanon]

Fun, seeing the actual N1 Soviet land there on the moon

[@Pip3603]

Oh hell yeah! I love all your videos!

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[@noelienoelie8425]

What a sleeper. This movie legitimately scared me in places. Science fiction horror or more specifically horror movies in space are my flavour. And I dunno, the idea of something crawling over my face whilst trapped in a suit gives me the willys.

[@ghostlead6937]

I remember renting this movie at Redbox outside of circle k in 2012 😮‍💨 The good ol days 😂

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[@MikeNapoli1989]

I remember those!!!

[@jaredrubin7843]

awesome found footage movie

[@leehall5447]

I remember going to see this movie as a kid with my dad and it scared the shit out of me, didn’t sleep well for like a week

[@j.greenwood423]

Suuuch a good premise. Not fleshed out enough though.

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[@Therockyhorrorqueen]

I’m fucking terrified of going into our space

[@johncarter8103]

Love the video can you do the sith empire from star wars legends

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Sure!

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[@beanbag9696]

I love this film! Looks amazing

[@fadedcolor7744]

This trumatized me as a child. I was scared of rocks for days.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

The most unbelieveable aspect of the movie is that a 300 foot high giant rocket could take off without any one in Florida noticing a Saturn V rocket on a giant pillar of flame.

[@locklear308]

Well to be honest how does any civilian know the difference between a rocket test and a human manned mission?

[@Mr.Needle-Hamster]

This is why I have a massive fear of whatever could be out there in space...if you ask me...we shouldn't be focusing on finding out the truth...the aftermath could very well be disastrous

[@cwsenpai52]

i wonder if the Artemis astronauts that are going back to the moon have seen this.

[@masonbotten77]

*Rock slightly moves *Astronauts "Alright were not doing this fire up the ship were outta here"

[@grimgrom3355]

Very alike to Roanoke gaming, but still a good video

[@Bayleaf6399]

Being scared of spiders, this movie terrified me

[@shainewhite2781]

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

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[@th3alley]

Explain the darkest hour creatures plz

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

How do these spider live on the moon? They have no food or ox. I feel like there should be a sequel but that will never happen

[@gamingyoutubernoonan0108]

Could there be caves leading to the underground ecosystem under the surface of the moon.

[@KaoticReach1999]

We all know the US and especially the Soviet Union would of done everything to get them back just to immediately quarantine them and study the virus and rocks lol probably leading to them escaping and leading to a spider-rock apocalypse but still xD But besides that, great movie and video!

[@reycesarcarino4653]

Astronaut: There Are Russians on the Moon? Houston: Always has been

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[@doctoruttley]

Spooky movie 😵‍💫

[@NoNombre.45]

It’s insane how this movie and Forrest Gump are the two films that got me into revisionist history.

[@Gnekdjidkdbbdd]

NASA should really shift their Nuke base facility to moon in case of alien attacks and Kim Jung un ..!!😵‍💫

[@dafrog491]

You know what bugs me about this movie. Before this film was released i wrote a script about a found footage film in space.. Im not accusing any one of stealin from me cause i dont believe i sent it to any one.. But that sort of thing happens to me alot.

[@nathaniellaughlin5693]

I remember going with my older brother to see it in the theater when I was younger he said it sucked but me I was terrified as a kid 😂 no longer wanted to be an Astronaut when I grew up

[@nathanowen8456]

I have a movie suggestion to be explained and that's the frankenstein theory when I first watched the movie the really confused me and still does

[@michaelploskina1681]

Love this flick

[@truecrimepodcasting]

Do The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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[@vikingodin1986]

A good solid film

[@anubusx]

Explore The Ancient Enemy from The Phantons.

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[@Barbozo89]

i like the ending with the giant arachnid

[@parzivalSkywalker]

I really like this movie

[@TheYoungOwl-2003]

Can you exolore Darkseid from DC comics, please?

[@WillTellU]

kinda weird it's been 50 years, but we're going back to the mun babyyyyy!!!

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[@ThisUpdateSucks]

The astronauts may have come in peace *But the aliens certainly didn’t*

[@MikeNapoli1989]

They were not very welcoming lol.

[@Mortablunt]

Halo

[@thecopperiris]

Ok, I love this video, now do swordfish!

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[@Prada_GT]

I’m going to show this movie to my children in the future and tell them it’s a documentary 😂

[@smartdoge4626]

Craaaaab people. Craaaaaab people.

[@jerroco8388]

Can u do more scp videos

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[@patriot459]

I remember they tried to market this movie as if it was real it was back during the paranormal activity days.

[@IH8MEATriders]

Does anyone else feel like this is sum how connected to the cloververse idk it feels like it's at least spiritually connected being that most the movie is footage basically(also note that the bugs on the moon though not very similar in design they do behave very similar to the creatures found on clover seeing as they both crawl and attack in hoards with a venomous bite that can alter human brain chemistry and kill them as well)....coincidence I THINK NOTTT

[@JerrybutTaller]

Yeah, I'd just open my fuckin suit the second I saw some spoopy shit bro. Fuck rock spiders from outer space. Death is a preferable alternative to alien rock spider body cavity party

[@2copy3copy4cpoy]

this film would've been insanely cooler if they perfectly copied the way the radios sounded in the actual Apollo recordings. Would've been a little more scifi-horror, less pure horror.

[@lucascyr8796]

They in space with gravity in their space ship in the 70s

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Woah never knew about those alt endings

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[@fuhrerpolizei86]

Wow why didn't I know of this film...looks good!!

[@theevansmeister292]

There was a fifth ending where John Grey was revealed to have survived and made it back to Earth. In his debriefing, a DoD official reveals that they actually wanted Ben's body brought back to Earth - they were purposefully sent to get infected and return so they could study the Moon aliens' venom and turn it into a possible bioweapon against the Soviets, due to reports of them attempting to do the same.

[@Skulldude-yj9kg]

Thats actually fded up and the most heartless thing for a government to do But in Cold War terms thats smart but it might back fire

[@michaelnieva9870]

That's some Resident Evil shit

[@therealtimmyiy]

i wouldnt be surprised if they fuckin did that lol, wasting 35.4 billion dollars on a project just to test out venom to beat the USSR 0

[@matthew_natividad]

Well we all know how that will end

[@jasonzacharias2150]

Thank God this is just a work of fiction and has absolutely nothing to do with reality in any way, shape, or form... Just imagine if their were killer moon spiders on earth.. simply could never happen outside of the realms of your wildest imagination 😢

[@iceheart1289]

NASA really needs to start giving astronauts combat training and equipment incase of potential alien encounters 😞

[@johnrandolph1989]

Agreed.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

Lol.

[@karenpojar2514]

They are all air force pilots. They have had combat training /shrug.

[@yaldabaoth2]

Don't worry, Captain Kirk could always just use a double-handed blow to deal with any kind of alien back in the day.

[@Pip3603]

I feel like any alien we would encounter, would vastly outweigh our tech

[@brentchesson2179]

Interesting factoid. Years ago I visited the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and they had an exhibit that showed the kit that the astronauts had in the lunar module. I was quite surprised to see they had a M1911 pistol with them. So it seems that NASA was at least somewhat prepared for something freaky happening on moon landings.

[@karabartley]

If I'm going to the moon, I'm also bringing a gun. To our knowledge, we are alone up there at the time so best case scenario is you won't even touch it.

[@andresherrera2902]

The Soviets had pistols that they would give to their cosmonauts, maybe they did expect something in space as well

[@itsjustme8947]

A weapon was for the super-rare 'what if' they missed their landing site and somehow ended up on land with dangerous wildlife. More common with the Soviets as they routinely recovered on land where we preferred water landings. A firearm would NOT work on the airless moon.

[@brentchesson2179]

@@itsjustme8947 Yes I realize that a weapon was most likely for a issue with wild animals in an off course reentry. My being prepared for trouble comment was more of a joke. Sorry to break it to you though but guns do work in space. This is from a science site. "Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required."

[@boatmonkey1234]

@@itsjustme8947 you don't need air for a firearm to work. Ammunition has it's own oxidizer so it can still be fired even in a vacuum

[@Lachie66]

My dad showed me this when I was little. I genuinely believed it was an actual documentary.

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[@lizando1326]

dad moment

[@matthew_natividad]

He should’ve tried the Blair witch project

[@elvondrago96]

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[@Dwemerologist]

I did as well, haha.

[@psybovine]

I think they don't use the debris to purposefully camoflauge themselves. It'd make more sense that they're just dormant for such long periods that the moon dust/rock becomes coated on their carapace. Since they probably have gone millions of years without food, it'd be the only way for them to survive long enough until fresh prey arrived (though feeding on solar radiation seems more likely, they could've just been attacking out of defense of their territory and not for food).

[@Mortablunt]

So like mobile hosts for fungal rhizomes host that thrive off of radiation amd offer mobility and protection in exchange for the energy fixing. So kind of like a space radiation deep sea tube worm volcanic vent or cold seep thing.

[@susanwojcickisnicetwin]

There is no wind on the moon. The footsteps left will be pristine for eons. Only impacts cause anything to move, technically.

[@Perkeletricksterservantofrher]

@@susanwojcickisnicetwin there is.

[@susanwojcickisnicetwin]

@@Perkeletricksterservantofrher there is not. To have wind you need an atmosphere. The moon has what is called an exosphere. The moon's exosphere has approximately 100 molecules per cubic centimeter while our atmosphere has approximately 100 billion billion molecules per cubic centimeter. There is solar wind but that is from the sun's corona. There is no wind on the moon.

[@oxymoron02]

@@Perkeletricksterservantofrher There is no wind on the moon lol Are you referring to solar wind? That's a sort of misnomer; it is not a wind in the sense that we understand a wind inside of an atmosphere.

[@deltaomega2136]

The movie mentions how samples were returned to Earth, but it seems likely if any of these creatures were brought back Earth's gravity would either incapacitate or kill them.

[@ethansmith5560]

Not necessarily

[@lockheedmartinf-22raptor73]

@@ethansmith5560 it's plausible. When the astronauts from apollo13 came back to earth, the gravity fucked them up, from nausea to sudden unconsciousness. These things would be crushed since they didn't adapt to earth gravity.

[@LisaAnn777]

If they could survive the harsh conditions of the Moon I'm sure they could survive on Earth.

[@Bigdrangus]

@@LisaAnn777 any environment you're not adapted to would be "harsh" to your body, being able to survive on the moon doesn't make it more likely they'd be able to survive earth's atmosphere

[@Neopolitan2024]

@@Bigdrangusyeah, so any creature on the moon won’t get a earth invasion.