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- thegrantman, on 06/29/2009, -3/+359How do you lose something as important as these?
- christoast, on 06/30/2009, -2/+209Where was it? Behind the couch?
- r0g3r, on 06/30/2009, -5/+152This is exciting for any Apollo enthusiast, but nothing will ever satisfy the conspiracy nuts.
- RogerStrong, on 06/29/2009, -6/+132Keep in mind that the moon landings were a rush job on a shrinking budget. Funding was slashed and Saturn V production capped even before the first moon landing. Apollo coasted through the moon landings with what hardware was already in the pipeline. The last moon landings were cancelled.
So with a deluge of video and higher-resolution photographs coming back from the moon, no plans were made for what had already been relayed as standard video from Australia. More importantly, no money was budgeted for it.
And if there were, what would you transfer it TO? This wasn't the 2000's where anyone could play video in any resolution - the choices were standard definition video, standard definition video, and standard definition video. And they already had that.
btw, a similar case where just getting the job done won over keeping history, is the lack of pictures of Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, on the moon. Since Armstrong was first out and had the camera, all the pictures are of Aldrin. This likely would have been different if anyone had thought of it at the time. - JIZZED, on 06/30/2009, -20/+115They just took HD cameras on a brand new Hollywood set, and made a remake!
Yeah the technology has evolved in 40 years :)
/s - codemonkeysteve, on 06/28/2009, -1/+94"Aldrin shot first!"
- unusualbob, on 06/30/2009, -1/+87"Crucially, they could once and for all dispel 40 years of wild conspiracy theories"
No they wont. - IOhBot, on 06/30/2009, -1/+76Yes, they found the tapes, but...
"Oh no... BETA!" - scibuff, on 06/30/2009, -3/+71it wasn't NASA who lost the tapes
The deal is this: the video stream from the Moon was of a decent quality, but far too large too be able to be be sent to TVs around the country and the world. Using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, astronomers recorded the video beamed from the lunar surface in high quality, but what they transmitted to NASA was necessarily compressed. It’s the latter we’ve all seen. The thing is, the high quality tapes were then lost somehow in Australia. - brundlefly76, on 06/30/2009, -9/+74I dont care if it was a rush job or the footage was shot in antartica, someone was responsible for the most important video in the history of man and just 'lost it'. I mean, 'oh I'm sorry, I was in a rush'? Seriously.
- hypogenic, on 06/30/2009, -2/+59You saw the story before...
But now...
Relive the adventure...
Digitally remastered...
With never before seen extra scenes...
And new digital FX...
THE APOLLO LANDING ON THE MOON
coming next month - voze, on 06/30/2009, -4/+58Sadly, you're right, conspiracy nuts will see conspiracies where they want too, regardless of facts.
- shadowspawn, on 06/30/2009, -2/+54A: 3
V: 6
I'll wait for the r5 - bucksfan10, on 06/30/2009, -5/+54"How is this not getting more diggs?"
Because it's NOT TRUE!!! See:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/200 ... - GiggleStick, on 06/30/2009, -2/+49Maybe the dingo's ate your tapes.
- bdanenberg, on 06/30/2009, -1/+43A calm, intelligent, informed reply. Nicely done.
- IKORKYI, on 06/30/2009, -1/+37then you're wearing the crazy shoes
- bombula, on 06/28/2009, -1/+32Extremely cool.
- thegrantman, on 06/29/2009, -2/+33Thanks.
- TrouserJazz, on 06/30/2009, -6/+36This is exciting for any conspiracy nut, but nothing will ever satisfy the Apollo enthusiasts.
- teebird, on 06/30/2009, -4/+31@jsmithers, who says "Oh, and recognising something as a conspiracy, whether officially sanctioned or not, is not 'nutty'. It's rational, wise, intelligent, sensible, and dare I say it, Darwinian - those who think, survive."
This is true only if the theory fits the facts, otherwise the theory is worthless, misleading and possibly dangerous.. - redfox2600, on 06/30/2009, -0/+26Finally! I was getting tired of watching that cam.
- bradleyland, on 06/30/2009, -0/+24Between the cushions, actually.
- lanemik, on 06/30/2009, -3/+27You're going to be the idiot in the comments aren't you?
- Kakemonstere, on 06/30/2009, -0/+23You never gonna believe it, I was holding it in my hand the whole time!
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -8/+30Unfortunately that's all too true. A good maxim to bear in mind when dealing with the conspiracy theorist mentality is, 'Never argue with fools, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.'
- Harabeck, on 06/30/2009, -2/+24Umm, if you actually look at the evidence and use logical reasoning, the only conclusion is that it was not a hoax. All of the evidence hoaxers claim exists is made up BS.
- rocknog, on 06/30/2009, -4/+25Sweet holy hell, parentheses within parentheses.
- irkalla, on 06/30/2009, -4/+24"it's SAD that some people will still lap up wholeheartedly every line they get fed through official channels without any clear, rational thought of their own. Sheep you are, and sheep you will stay."
Do you (and people like you) seriously think that calling the other side "sheep" while providing absolutely no rational supporting evidence somehow magically makes you right?
Not to mention the irony of your statement is just ridiculous. 90% of the 'evidence' the Moon landings were faked should be outright laughable to anyone with a fourth grade education, and the rest are disproved by a simple cursory glance at the facts. But you don't care about facts, evidence or even rational thinking: you work backwards from a conclusion,gleefully twisting, distorting and ignoring facts when necessary, and when that fails just outright making ***** up. And the laughable thing is that you probably seriously believe the ***** your spouting.
It's actually kind of pitiable. =/ - pzrapnbeast, on 06/30/2009, -0/+20Those were data tapes. These are the video feeds.
- jmferris, on 06/30/2009, -4/+24Pics or it didn't happen. Er... Oh, wait.
- darkstar107, on 06/30/2009, -1/+21They weren't "lost"...they needed time to edit out the alien encounters.
Anyone see that bit on there being an alien base on the moon? ...such BS lol. - IKORKYI, on 06/30/2009, -2/+22just as easily as hundreds of thousands of emails from the whitehouse
- Harabeck, on 06/30/2009, -4/+21Please don't use the word "Darwinian". And there is no logical evidence against the moon landing.
- habu, on 06/30/2009, -3/+20Buried as Inaccurate, see the follow up below.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/200 ... - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+16duude no the dvdrip is coming!
- redfox2600, on 06/30/2009, -2/+17Who's plays Armstrong this time around? I'm not sure if the original is still in shape for HD.
- scibuff, on 06/30/2009, -6/+21yeah, you could "fly" a moon-landing hoaxer to the moon and show him the equipment astronauts left there and he'd accuse you of drugging him :D
- grug27, on 06/30/2009, -1/+15Why does he look transparent?
- ekSD, on 06/30/2009, -1/+14I would assume a slow shutter speed/FPS on the camera being used?
- geoboy, on 06/30/2009, -4/+16The conspiracy nuts are actually all part of a greater conspiracy. You see, none of them truly believe that the moon landings were fake. They just spout their nonsense in an effort to make themselves look nutty. Why do they do this? It's so that they can inform us about some of the REAL conspiracies and avoid assassination. It goes something like this:
"This guy just gave away our evil plan! We need to kill him!"
"Yeah, but he's crazy. No one's gonna believe him. Killing him isn't worth the trouble."
So there you have it. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note: aliens have visited this planet and they touched me in my sleep. - charlietuna, on 06/30/2009, -3/+14How so? Was NASA going to lose their funding unless they could prove their case? They found some tapes, and released them. These tapes just happen to be of Apollo. I bet they trip over crap every day. This is grandpa's basement times one million.
- noahhoward, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11You've never worked for the government have you?
- mrgarci1, on 06/30/2009, -2/+12Different tapes, dumbass. The tapes in the link you mention were data recorded from surface conditions, not video:
From your link:
"But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of 'lost' NASA tapes which record surface conditions on the Moon just after Neil Armstrong stepped into space history on 21 July 1969.
After addressing Earth, the American astronaut set up a package of scientific instruments, including a dust detector designed by an Australian physicist. The data collected by the detector was sent back to ground stations on Earth and recorded on magnetic tapes - copies of which are as rare as the 'misplaced' original video footage of the 1969 touchdown." - charlietuna, on 06/30/2009, -1/+11@Minters
NASA is a bunch of engineers. They are not known for their sentimentality. - noahhoward, on 06/30/2009, -4/+14No, dckerjo, someone who questions a repeatedly proven official story with tons of supporting evidence and physical evidence visible through a telescope is a fool.
Someone who swallows it up without thinking simply doesn't need to think that hard about the evidence. - WVSickfreak, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10Are you actually serious? I keep hoping to see a post saying you are just joking?
Wow.... - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9More likely because the image sensors in use at the time were tubes and they had a terrible afterimage effect especially in high contrast scenes.
- crcurran, on 06/30/2009, -7/+16Conspiacy Theorists are chomping at the bit.
I predict their reaction to new photos: "photoshop'd. You can see it in the pixels" - Tryptomine, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9Thank you for making me hear that in Snake's voice.
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