The problem is they became interesting only decades later, when the ability to actually watch them arrived with hdtv.
It's a real shame, but not many organisations are that farsighted.
Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
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Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's ok, you can take the foil hat off. The broadcast from the moon was relayed live to TV stations across the world. The tapes they're talking about were just NASA's recordings of that direct broadcast. So there never was any opportunity for the tapes to be edited like that, because they didn't sit in the chain between the cameras on the moon and the broadcasts everyone saw on their TVs. Fortunately other news organ…
I refuse to believe your logical explanations
Keep the faith, man!
Of course the taped copies we have now must have been recorded on multiple tapes. So are the transitions on them from switching tapes to record the broadcast, or are they actually the transitions from the original faked broadcast? If the original broadcast was faked and broadcast from tapes, you'd expect to see both types of transitions in the modern copies!
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was being tongue-in-cheek, but we do have recordings of the lunar broadcasts and, as I explained elsewhere, there's nothing particularly special about the NASA tapes. They were essentially just VCR-ing the live broadcast the same as everyone else, although I suppose their recordings may have been tapped into the video stream earlier in the chain so perhaps of higher quality.
Not perhaps. They were hi-def slow scan video. Wikipedia: "When the Apollo TV camera radioed its images, the ground stations received its raw unconverted SSTV signal and split it into two branches. One signal branch was sent unprocessed to a fourteen-track analog data tape recorder where it was recorded onto fourteen-inch diameter reels of one-inch-wide analog magnetic data tapes at 3.04 meters per second."
I wonder if anyone other than NASA was picking up the direct broadcast from the Moon? I've got to imagine the Russians at least would be doing that.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd think an organization as important as NASA wouldn't have to worry about budget cuts year after year.
You'd think an organization as important as NASA would have chosen better which tapes were suitable to erase and which not.
that's employee time, thus, money.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not perhaps. They were hi-def slow scan video. Wikipedia: "When the Apollo TV camera radioed its images, the ground stations received its raw unconverted SSTV signal and split it into two branches. One signal branch was sent unprocessed to a fourteen-track analog data tape recorder where it was recorded onto fourteen-inch diameter reels of one-inch-wide analog magnetic data tapes at 3.04 meters per second."
I wonder if anyone other than NASA was picking up the direct broadcast from the Moon? I've got to imagine the Russians at least would be doing that.
There is no way that was a live broadcast from the moon because an analysis was done on the rate of speed sand would fall in the supposed live broadcast. The rate indicates Earth gravity:
Gravity Analysis of Falling Sand
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#26Has any of the conspiracy theorists ever considered pointing a laser at the moon to detect the retroreflectors that were left their by Apollo 11.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/expe...
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#27Has any of the conspiracy theorists ever considered pointing a laser at the moon to detect the retroreflectors that were left their by Apollo 11. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/expe...
Inconclusive experiment; retroreflectors could be deployed by unmanned probes.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#28Has any of the conspiracy theorists ever considered pointing a laser at the moon to detect the retroreflectors that were left their by Apollo 11. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/expe...
Have you? Let me know how that goes for you.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#29Sounds like the best way to hide any editing done to the original tapes. puts foil hat on
Here is the original recording of the moon landing. Besides clear evidence for editing, if you watch carefully you will find even more strong evidence for the fake. For instance, the sun light reflected from the space craft is in the wrong angle!
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#30Has any of the conspiracy theorists ever considered pointing a laser at the moon to detect the retroreflectors that were left their by Apollo 11. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/expe...
Inconclusive experiment; retroreflectors could be deployed by unmanned probes.
How about the conspiracy theorists funding a probe, sending it to the landing site and taking samples of the human waste product the astronauts allegedly left there. Back on earth they can do a DNA comparison with the surviving relatives. They can make a movie out of it and call it "first poop in the moon".