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- meruru, on 11/14/2008, -3/+34So NASA bought a scanner?
- Atomic05, on 11/14/2008, -0/+17In the future, mankind's success will be measured by how quickly we expanded into the solar system, into the galaxy, and into the universe. The pithy squabbles of today will mean nothing to the men (and women) who stand on alien worlds and look back at the one we stand on now.
You know, assuming we don't kill ourselves first. - Zomgondo, on 11/14/2008, -0/+8Ok, for people who are too lazy to RTFA and watch the video: they're recovering very high resolution images they scanned from film onto analog magnetic tape after the mission. The scanning resolution is so high that one frame of film takes up an hour of videotape. There are only a couple machines left that can read these tapes and only one guy who knows how to make the machines work. Nobody could even remember how the data was stored so they had to figure that out as well.
Pretty cool stuff. - firefly2271, on 11/14/2008, -0/+8They've managed to photoshop new moon landing pics
:D
Wait for the "there's the landing zone" pic restored from the archives - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/14/2008, -1/+8Wow, I wonder what sort of forgotten images we'll all get to see.
I'm sure the conspiracy theorists will be able to explain it all away though. And by "explain" I mean "expand the scope of their conspiracy even further beyond anything a rational person would ever consider." - FredFredrickson, on 11/14/2008, -0/+6You know that in all the history of NASA, they've spent about a quarter of the money passed for the bank bailout, right?
- Jsmuli2, on 11/14/2008, -0/+5Old people embracing digital age = scanning all photos from old family albums and reprinting them into a new album
- Ninjapope, on 11/14/2008, -0/+5That's a brave assumption.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -0/+4And when that day comes it will be the beginning of a new epoch, the likes of which we have never witnessed before.
- atsguy, on 11/14/2008, -0/+4mmmm...maybe we will finally see the buildings on the moon
- breadfred, on 11/14/2008, -0/+3It makes you think what chance the guys/gals from SETI have if we cannot even read our own tapes from 40 years ago...
- BossKey, on 11/14/2008, -0/+3The article says they aren't scanning images, they're attempting to recover the full resolution image data from magnetic tapes that use an obsolete format.
- diggydougie, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2This makes the editing much easier than before.
- firefly2271, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2end religion and 90 % of the wars will end.
kill our oil addiction and another 9% will go. - elementop, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2I know which of those two options I'd rather give the money to (hint: it's not the banks).
Thanks for putting those numbers in perspective! - breadfred, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2Read the article. They are stored on some sort of tape that needs a playback machine with heads that only 1 man in the world can operate. This bloke is 68 years old and wants to retire.
- Harabeck, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2Ya, so stop fighting this and let us get into space so I can become Darth Vader already!
- rowlodge, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2theres one job opening at least coming in 14 months ,probably 10,000 people will be waiting for it.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2Its a conspiracy, conspiracy.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -3/+5Yeah it's called a scanner. lol NASA
- thashiz, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2Lucas? I thought you wanted to get rid of mistakes, not create more...
- BossKey, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2No, they're trying to recover images stored on magnetic tape.
- Ninjapope, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2So NASA bought a tape drive?
- neo991lb, on 11/14/2008, -1/+2Good. Post them online so I have thousands of new desktop images. Just don't pay someone more than $8/hour to SCAN IMAGES.
- Diggsterrr, on 11/14/2008, -2/+3Is it just me? Or is NASA really that bored that they have nothing better to do?
- GorecOverYears, on 09/02/2009, -0/+1Image recovery.... I loved the joke LOL (as all other NASA jokes). My 5-year-old niece could photoshop that.
- Tanuck, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1At least they're spending the billion dollar budget well!!
- Jektal, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1If you RTFA, you'd know that nobody else is capable of doing it.
- badtiki, on 11/14/2008, -1/+2Are these the images with or without the moonbase airbrushed out?
- rick2k, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1Complete rubbish, You cant read anything as small as a license plate from space. You would be lucky to get a colored dot for a whole car on the best cameras up there let alone a plate.
And the same applys for the moon, No one has the power to look at things so small.
Come on people..
Infact i want to coin a new term, The google earth generation! where everyone thinks you can see yourself in your back yard from space! - cubicledrone, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1And of course, here in America, we can't train anyone to do anything, because all employees must have five years of experience in the precise job they are applying for.
It is mind-boggling how much we suck. - britoca, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I love NASA
- lfrankow, on 11/14/2008, -1/+2anything's possible.
here's something to bake your noodle - even if they didn't have the landings, they could still have sent LEM and rover stuff between then and now. that way it would be in place when there's equipment hi-res enough to take pix of the zones. - cr12345, on 11/14/2008, -1/+2I thought Jar Jar sticking his head out of a crater when Armstrong plants the flag would be funny.
- breadfred, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1yeah, it makes you wonder how long it takes to teach someone to learn this stuff - would they not be better served if this guy would teach other people on-the-job?
- diggydougie, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1Thanks.
- CDRaff, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1I will gladly take his place, where do I apply?
- t0ny, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1So NASA bought a computer?
- cughin, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1haha laugh if a photo slips thru with a camera man standing to the side holding a flash
- elementop, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1Nobody else is *capable* or nobody else has yet been trained? I didn't see anything else in the article that indicates the existing technician is the only guy who could ever possibly do the job -- just that he's the only guy who currently knows how.
- rheaume, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1Better than giving it to you
- Farticus, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1ROFLMA, did anyone else notice the name of the guy who wrote the article.
- DRFU, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1Will he be alive to back it up?
- neo991lb, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I stand corrected. Good call on reading the article.
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -1/+2Why haven't we been able to see the landing sites from the orbiting imagers? Japan's sattelite comes to mind. I mean we can read a car license plate through earth's atmosphere but we can't image the lander itself or the lunar buggys? Don't kid a kidder.
- arkaycee, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0The conspiracy theorists are right in one regard -- if any photos from these data tapes were released that showed evidence of Apollo moon landings, they would be fakes. Biggest reason: Lunar Orbiter took these pictures SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE THE MOON LANDINGS.
That being said, it would be cool to see the highest-res photos available for where Apollo 11 landed. I'd like to see the obstacles (crater, boulder field) that caused Armstrong to nearly use up all the fuel to get past them. -
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