@Venator
@lemmy.nzYeah I'm not saying they didn't edit it, but rather the master footage they were editing was on vhs or similar. I guess it's probably quite likely they would've had some sort of better quality magnetic tape rather than vhs come to think of it though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some was 16mm but probably mostly shot straight to vhs:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096657/technical/?ref_=tt_spec_sm
And the bbc was notoriously bad at not losing archival footage of tv shows
Why would you need to entirely cancel the earths orbital velocity, surely you just need to cancel a tiny bit of orbital velocity?
Edit: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/43913/do-you-need-0-km-s-velocity-to-crash-into-the-sun