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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.
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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.
It's all going to be fine... it's all going to be fine...
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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 NA…
JIM LOVELL - I'm slated to be the commander of Apollo 14 sometime late next year.
CONGRESSMAN - If there is an Apollo 14... Now, Jim, people in my state have been asking why we're continuing to fund this program - now that we've beaten the Russians to the Moon. [1]
The chasm between what NASA wanted, pilots down, was to keep on its trajectory, but the politicians saw monies to tender.
Sounds like the best way to hide any editing done to the original tapes. puts foil hat on
> 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.
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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.
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You'd think an organization as important as NASA wouldn't have to worry about budget cuts year after year.
The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is chaired by Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas who denies climate change science and is currently busy wasting gov't time and funds harassing NOAA scientists. It's all going to be fine... it's all going to be fine...
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_P...
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The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is chaired by Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas who denies climate change science and is currently busy wasting gov't time and funds harassing NOAA scientists. It's all going to be fine... it's all going to be fine...
Mr. Smith does not deny climate change science, he is a skeptic, not the same. As a congressman, he is afforded the roles of his position to investigate corruption or suspicions of corruption, which in this case includes an agency using taxpayer dollars avoiding the release of information to a committee. The NOAA situation is one where the agency should openly share data with the committee and Mr. Smith would go away…
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/congressman-doubles-d...
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