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- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+91It is oddly appropriate that the tapes were found in Perth. Space junkies will remember that when John Glenn was orbiting the Earth, the city of Perth turned on all its lights so that he could see it from space.
- RichyFreeway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+77Read the article. These aren't the missing video tapes. They're tapes of data recorded from the various experiments undertaken while on the moon.
- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -13/+51Guess they'll just have to move on to other conspiracy fantasies. I understand 9/11 is the new "in" thing for those people.
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Too hot... unless we go at night.
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33I was hoping that these were the VIDEO recordings!
If the headline said "Jimmy Hoffa Found", and the article was about a picture of Hoffa, I'd be just as disappointed.
No digg, just for the "Hey! Read me!" title. - DuoPros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27What are you talking about? We drink Emu Bitter in Perth.
- chronosoft, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Haha... Of all places to lose tapes, it was lost in the land down under... (Probably between a slab of Victoria Bitters beer)
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Boy I'd hate to see the late fees in O'Brien's NASA library card
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22No it is fake because I'm a alcoholic and the alcohol made me say its fake.
- mccarron, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Another copy of the tapes was found months ago in the possession of the producer of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon demo film.
http://digg.com/space/Pink_Floyd_s_The_Dark_Side_Of_The_Moon_Produces_Missing_Apollo_11_Footage - tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@RichyFreeway,
You are correct. I just checked with a buddy of mine, who is a data archivist at NASA. He is part of the team trying to find the tapes. He has been in contact with the Aussie folks. These are not the video tapes, but the telemetry from the experiment stations on the moon. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Anyone else find it odd that a project as expensive as sending men to the moon could just lose a big ol chunk of research data in some dusty basement in Pirth?
- tg16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Oh cares? I'm still waiting for man to walk on the Sun!
- VAXcat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11...That's no moon...
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If I remember correctly, Australia received better transmission from the moon when the states didn't... You know, because of rotation... =)
- raptorjb007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I see someone never took a basic Physics class.
An Object given no air resistance, as is the case on the moon, when launched from the surface with velocity of "A" will return to the surface with a velocity of "A".
In otherwords,
When a ball is going up, it's velocity is gradually reducing (due to the Moon's gravity). So the rate of change of velocity is negative so it will have negative acceleration which is commonly called deceleration. When the ball is falling the change in velocity is positive (as the velocity will gradually increase due to earth gravity) so it is called actually acceleration.
The acceleration of the ball going up and ball falling from down are same only the sign is different (going up is deceleration, going down is acceleration)
At the peak velocity is zero so rate of change of velocity is also zero. Thus at the peak acceleration is zero. - Hulka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What he said.
The article even says "copies of which are as rare as the 'misplaced' original video footage of the 1969 touchdown." The title implies these are the lost tapes that were found. No digg. - Technopope, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@RichyFreeway
From the article:
"Recorded on telemetry tapes, they are said to be the best quality images of the landing (unconverted slow scan TV) yet to be seen by a public still fascinated by the early space race." - aximbigfan, on 10/12/2007, -14/+20"if they were in hd you would probably be able to see the wires used to make the astronauts look "bouncy"!"
you sir are a dumbass conspiracy nut. - terrablebyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How long will it be before they are uploaded to Youtube?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Everyone knows that there is no such thing as the Moon!
/sarcasm - tthomas1529, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5can't wait to see the spreadsheets on the dust count. it's like christmas morning.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Perth, not Pirth.
Incidentally, Perth is the world's most isolated city. - Spizzat2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I imagine someone did ***** his mother at some point.
Also, pretty sure this is the wrong comment to reply to. - KungF00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The Article comments: "O'Brien decided to go looking for the tapes after reading about mislaid television tapes that NASA and Australian scientists are still looking for."
The reason for this is because of the type of the tapes. The video technology was specifically developed for the moon landings. From what I understand, there are only 2 machines in existance which are cabable of playing these video tapes. The lost tapes are the actual video feeds from space. Back then the only way to "relay" live video was to point a television camera to a video monior which was displaying the feed from space. Subsequently, the quality of the footage that got recorded was much lower quality than the actual feed.
I really hope all the lost tapes get found, as I'd love to see better quality footage of the moon landings. Hopefully they'll be found while there is still something which can play them. - jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's why they put a radio telescope in the middle of a sheep paddock near a town called Parkes in New South Wales.
- sclozza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am from Perth and I am not suddenly thinking this place is any less of a ***** hole than it was last week.
Not only is there nothing to do here, we lose important Apollo 11 tapes! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11I wonder if the intergreity of the data on the tapes has help up over the years.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A satellite dish in a small country town in Australia recieved the video feed of the moon landing. There's a wonderful movie about this small town with this massive satellite dish called 'the dish'. Absolutely highly recommended.
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They will never show them tapes. If they do they will be only tiny snippets.
- CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Not likely, they will now say that those tapes are faked. Conspiracy theorists can never be proven wrong no matter how many facts say otherwise. They are the kings of truthiness.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Watch the movie "The Dish" and you'll find out.
- jhaitas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what were the tapes doing down under?
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anti-Conspiracy people seem just as extreme and unreasonable as the most extreme Conspiracy theorist.
- raptorjb007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2""At the peak velocity is zero so rate of change of velocity is also zero. Thus at the peak acceleration is zero."
That doesn't make any sense.
Let's just say, acceleration is a vector and pretty much constant at a celestial bodies surface."
I'm sorry missing a few commas in there. It should be
*At the peak, velocity is zero, so the rate of change of velocity is also zero. Thus acceleration is zero.*
The peak meaning max height of the object.
"Rate of change of velocity" is acceleration.
I guess I spent to much time inphysics and not enough in basic english. - roarus, on 07/30/2008, -0/+2Oh yeah? How do you explain moon.google.com, wise guy? I can practically zoom in till I see the cheese!
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, because there's literally nothing there! When you have to resort to saying 'we can look at the sky reel good' in the middle of a city, you know there can't be anything going on.
That said, you guys have such a great employee deficit over there I could move over and get a job as a CIO with only McDonalds on my resume! - LostOnion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Conspiracy theorists are resistant to logic and factual information. It's almost like some kind of insanity. Or perhaps greed, since there is money to made of of such baloney.
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I may have been burried but apparently I got you all thinking. I'm no physicist, but my opinion stands:
Considering the physics of an upward thrust of jumping...falling off due to gravity, then descending under that same force...I would imagine a quick ascent then a slow, but gradually increasing descent. To put it simply the video appeared more like slow motion than what I theorize the physics of jumping with 1/6 gravity to look like. - airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Might as well be...
- DrakeGTA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3obligatory http://walkenonthesun.ytmnd.com/
- LostOnion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very interesting. I didn't know that. Doubtful many people do.
- bemenaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm confused, do these have the original video footage too? If one of the three ground stations receiving it all was in Oz, then I would be guessing it is in this collection. I hope so.
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The ball is under constant acceleration [of the moon], only the velocity changes. So the speed, |V| initial, is the same as final.
- datagod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mmmmmmm.......8 track moon tapes......
- daurkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They also bitch at the links to the Dugg dupe links.
Thanks for the comments, I love reading the article without actually clicking it. - Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2WRONG TAPES
BURIED AS INACCURATE - robche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1haha wow, i go to this university and no idea this happened. Shows how much we care :D
- DDRSkata, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Looking for the Wizard.
- rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1they must of forgotten the video somewhere on the moon.
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