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Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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Sounds 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! https://youtu.be/7JDaOOw0MEE?t=4m46s

at least it wasn't rickroll.

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.

It's because there were no documents in the first place. I think we never even landed on the moon to begin with.

And what, the Soviets and the Chinese decided to go along with it?

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

Inconclusive experiment; poop DNA destroyed by solar and cosmic radiation.

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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> We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them' The really couldn't figure out by themselves that they shouldn't throw away the visual evidence of one of the most important events in human history?

I think at the time, most folks at NASA expected moon landings to be commonplace within a decade.

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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> We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them' The really couldn't figure out by themselves that they shouldn't throw away the visual evidence of one of the most important events in human history?

I think at the time, most folks at NASA expected moon landings to be commonplace within a decade.

The crazies, maybe. I hope not most NASA folk; there really is no way for lunar landings to have been common using chemical propellants and disposable rockets. Even today alternatives are mere speculations. So either our NASA dreamer was a poor engineer, or a nut job willing to nuke Earth to visit a lifeless rock.

Which is not a bad thing: given the immensity and ludicrousness of the Apollo accomplishment, I think NASA had quite a few nutjobs!

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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post #5

Sounds like the best way to hide any editing done to the original tapes. puts foil hat on

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…

Thanks! This is another great explanation of the vent that I can use against those who think moon landing was fake. In the past, I always told folks that landing occurred during Cold War and USSR was watching closely. If this was faked, Soviets would love nothing better than to discredit the US worldwide.

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

#39
post #5

Sounds 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! https://youtu.be/7JDaOOw0MEE?t=4m46s

Everyone knows that angles on the moon are different due to the gravity difference!

Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)

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post #6

They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.

> The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money. You'd think an organization like NASA can plan their budgets a bit better than that.

It is a government organization. If it can be run badly, it will be run badly.
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