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Has Anyone Seen the Moon Pictures?
NASA has received a lot of bad press in the last few years. Now in a stunning move to prove how much they have learned from past mistakes, it appears they have lost the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk. They also seem to have misplaced the original recordings of the other five Apollo moon landings. Hopefully nobody has taped an episode of "The OC" over them yet.
I can see it coming now... a tinfoil hat brigade shouting,
"that's because we never WENT to the moon!" and
"The original tapes would have proved it!"
How convenient, almost as if we never landed on the moon at all.
they are doing a horrible job of silencing the conspiracy theories.
"Ok, I have this original video with the first man on the moon, should I make some backups? Nah... Is it important that I remember where I put it? Nah..."
Nah you know what NASA folks are like with forgetting to convert things... it's actually sitting in a box on betamax, nobody wants to admit it.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
With remakes being the rage in Hollywood, this shouldn't be a problem at all...
"Houston, we have a problem..."
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Don't you get it? Slashdot is backing up this story so such a disaster can never happen to them.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
What we actually did was build studio on Mars, where it was easier to fake lunar conditions. I'm sure the original tapes would have shown this clearly.
KFG
Oh my god, thank you sir! Some people misplace videos of the moon landings, I misplace slashdot articles. Thank you for finding it!
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I was getting worried that someone had overwritten the article with a blog from MySpace
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Logic, macros, and more
Your post advocates a conspiracy theory which is
( ) paranoid
( ) delusional
(x) impossible to confirm
(x) impossible to refute
Specifically, your theory fails to account for
( ) Stupidity of the general population
( ) Stupidity of the politicians
(x) Lack of supporting evidence
(x) Plenty of contradictory evidence
(x) Lack of a centrally controlling authority for conspiracies
(x) The facts can be explained without need for real conspiracy
(x) Scientists generally don't participate in conspiracies
(x) Failure to mention the Illuminati
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been proven
(x) That's what they WANT us to think
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, you're batshit crazy
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
I found it. NASA can thank me later.
Avoid Missing Ball for High Score
Tonight is full moon actually, so it should get stuck somewhere in the trees.
Surely NASA can arrange for some pictures in my garden?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
"Is the article honestly trying to suggest that NASA couldn't reverse engineer a format and design a player for it if the original player was lost? I personally find that a little hard to believe." I don't. If NASA did it, it would require five years, fifteen administrators, and fifty million dollars. The quarterly funding reviews alone (much less the reviews of the reviews) would take up more time than the project, and the funding would be proxmired halfway through to pay for a bridge to an island owned by a friend of some congressman. If they ever find the tapes they should hand them over to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which would probably have them transferred to more durable media in six months at a cost of $30,000.
Don't worry too much about that - geeks don't even get laid, so there's no point of talking about your great-grandchildren.
On the other hand, I am so tired of all these so-called "conspiracy theorists" who are making a conspiracy out of things that were NOT a conspiracy. I mean, look at what these poser conspiracy theorists are making conspiracies out of.
The poser conspiracy theorists will give you a bullsh*t conspiracy to keep you occupied from the real conspiracies that are occuring. Here is just some of the events they are sensationalizing into false conspiracies.
- The moon landing
- 9/11 (for pete sake! It was only five years ago!
- The Davinci Code
Now here is a list of unsolved mysteries and nefarious plots that are true conspiracies becausse no one wants to admit that they are occuring.- Peak Oil and Gas Prices (This one needs the most attention right now.)
- Big Brother and soulserveilance
- Corporate backrubs for governments/New World Order/World Trade Organization
- Suppressed technology and cures. (Marajuana does not count!)
- Subliminal Advertising. (for example: "Head on! Apply Directy to the Forehead" x3)
- Extraterrestrial Life (SETI needs your help BTW! The government is cutting their funding again.)
- The Kenedey Assassination
- Where's Jimmy Hoffa?
- Protecting the Earth from ourselves. (Bibles and Bombs do not mix!)
- Occult and paranorma phenomenon
I would recommend that the world spend a little more time tending to the second list and not the first list. But hey, people are stupid. They'd rather watch TV and let TV dictate what they should think. (I'm talking to you, Mr. I-watch-Fox-news-four-six-hours-in-the-evening.)Everyone else needs to put their glasses on and see the truth.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
NASA's new motto: "What? and you're perfect?"
For sale: Parachute. Used once. Never opened. Small stain.
It's the one marked Buzz Aldrin: 1956 Wedding Tape.
He'll never forget taping over that one...
Task Mangler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUkwr-KXa98 Looks like the real deal. ;)
It's cool. George Lucas took 'em -- he's going to add the things that he couldn't add the first time because of budget constraints. They'll resurface in a couple years complete with better special effects and a new ending where the Ewoks dance with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren.
Maybe _your_ lawn, asshole.
Of course, we need to make sure that the really important stuff does not contain an 'eradicate humanity' sequence by accident.
Don't worry, I've found the original Moon film on ebay!
I knew NASA's funding was desperate, but I didn't know it was that desperate!
Don't have time to double check...
You should be an editor.
Buzz shot first.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
Actually, rock is better. Glass is actually a supercooled liquid, and will eventually flow into a puddle; though it would take greater than 100 years, so you would be ok if you used glass, but rock would last longer. But then would they still use the same file formats we use now? Will we still be using binary computers? Would people have any idea what the stuff carved in stone is?
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Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
can't they just make some new films? They probably still have the old sets and costumes.