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They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.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.
They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.
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> 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.
You'd think an organization as important as NASA wouldn't have to worry about budget cuts year after year.
They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.
You think that's bad? There are several episodes of the original Hartnell Dr. Who that were also erased for financial reasons, of which no copies exist at all. :(
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You think that's bad? There are several episodes of the original Hartnell Dr. Who that were also erased for financial reasons, of which no copies exist at all. :(
I don't want to begin a flame, but I don't think Dr. Who is nearly as important as original tapes of the first men on the moon.
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?
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…
> 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?
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I don't want to begin a flame, but I don't think Dr. Who is nearly as important as original tapes of the first men on the moon.
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.
> 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?
Wait, what? NASA had tapes with missing Doctor Who episodes?