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Lost Moon-Landing Tape Recovered, Restored
esome writes: "Video clips of American astronauts bouncing around on the moon will never get old as far as I'm concerned. Now we've got one more to drool over thanks to Kipp Teague who has worked hard to archive Apollo stuff on his site. The BBC has an article on it here."
Ok, conspiracy theories ahoy, but with modern cinematic techniques faking a film like this would be *really* easy. But I can believe it.
Apart from the bullet-time 360 of Neil Armstrong jumping over Agent Smith.
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Where in BBC's article did you read anything
about video? This is an audio recording, *not*
video!
do this stuff any justice. After having just listened to the recording all I can say is WOW! That was history right there, we've seen Houston do the "GO" thing so many times in movies, but man when you hear it for real it just gets you going like a movie can't. About the first 33 seconds are silence with a little static but after that the chatter is pretty constant. Another thing the movies leave out is the fact that nearly all of those guys had moderate to heavy southern accents. ;)
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
had been attractive women with big breasts, watching the bounce around on the moon would have been ALOT more interesting.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
This audio is just amazing...in a week filled with despair and sadness, it's a welcome break to hear something so optimistic and uplifting. It reminds me of this record set I had when I was in college, called "I can hear it now". It was a 3 or 4 LP set of important events that happened in the 60s, narrated by Walter Cronkite. It had the "We choose to go to the moon" speech, the assassination of JFK, MLK, lots of stuff from Vietnam...but the thing that I played over and over again were the recordings from the Apollo missions. Something about that *beep* and the courage in their voices...the sense that I get, just from listening to them talk, was that every one of those men knew they were doing something incredible. I'm really glad this story got posted.
In case people overlook the audio link on BBC's link (top right), you can listen to the rescued tape (direct link to RealPlayer. To me, it sounds very good! The first few minutes is blank/static, but the fun part begins after that. The whole audio is about 10:51.3 minutes. :)
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Riight.. ok. Just because you can't prove its a hoax you should assume its real eh? So, by this, you presumably believe that David Copperfield can fly, David Blaine can levitate, and that Paul Daniels has chopped Debbie McGee into several small pieces. After all, going be experience (that of having seen such stunts) I must surely to believe that they're real.
Bollocks.
Develop a healthy sense of paranoia. People will try to rip you off. They will try to make you believe the unbelievable. And in your case, they'll succeed it seems. Assuming someone is telling the truth is a hideously niave and downright crazy attitude. Going by your own experience works. I haven't been to the moon. Whats easier to believe, that someone faked it in a movie studio, or that a huge team of people worked for years to propel a very heavy object all the way to our major satellitte, take a few photos, and then come back again.
My post was a joke. So, you humourless idiot, sod off.
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I don't allow proprietary codecs on my machine. Is there a version of this audio clip in a standard format, like AIFF or MP3?
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
The Apollo archive has lots of MPEG video clips as well.
Money for nothing, pix for free
It was was something like 6 hours long.
I wonder if it is available anyplace.
(There was also one a similar brodcast about pioneer going past neptune. That one I think I taped, and have it buried someplace)
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This document could be all the more interesting and useful if it were marked up with SMIL. Using this, we could synchronize the display of a transcript, including the names of all the speakers. Last fall at the Virginia Center for Digital History I saw a demo of a similar treatment of some audio surrounding Kennedy's administration and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
As I understand it, it would be much harder to fake a moon landing to the accuracy alledgedly achieved than to actually land on the moon.
Patrick Doyle
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It is amazing to hear them read out the altitude numbers in feet. The building next door to me is 54 storeys tall, so when the lander gets within 500 feet, I can just see it coming down past that building's roof. Then, when it got within 120 feet, I looked out my 14th-floor window and realized they were closer to the moon than I am to the earth!
Also, keep in mind that they didn't know whether the machinery would work, or whether the lander would sink into the moon dust, or what have you. They were literally descending into the unknown.
Quite an amazing piece of tape.
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Has anybody run this past the experts at FOX? They pointed out that the moon landing was a fake, so they should be able to make short work of this. After all, they have an investigative reporter and a camera maker to provide them with incontrovertible opinions.
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Haven't these audio experts at Nasa heard about baking the tapes? That's standard procedure for any audio or video tapes of that vintage. You put it in a scientific oven (one that maintains a constant temperature, rahter than cycling on and off) at 130 degrees for 4 to 5 hours. That bakes out the liquid and emulsifies the binder. I've been restoring old 1/2" black & white videotapes. They were unplayable without baking and clogged the heads after 30 seconds. After, I was able to play fairly long sections.
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No one tries to expose stage-magicians as 'fraudulent' because, by the very nature of their profession, it's understood to be an illusion and appreciated to the degree that what we nonetheless know to be illusion appears to be real. The result of watching a good magician is delight and amazement for exactly that reason. If we thought it was real, we'd respond with fear or paranoia. As for the moon landings, the 'exposes' I've read are pretty ridiculous, but that's neither here nor there, as your post was clearly (to me) meant in jest.
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Find any of your grandparents old bibles that was published before 1950 or any old sea story literature regarding nighttime navigation..
The truth shall set you free!