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Has Anyone Seen the Moon Pictures?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-never-landed-there-anyway dept.

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.

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  1. oh no! by drDugan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

    1. Re:oh no! by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not to worry, they can probably re-cut the film from the raw takes if MGM still has those.

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    2. Re:oh no! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny
      Not to worry, they can probably re-cut the film from the raw takes if MGM still has those.
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  2. My my my. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How convenient, almost as if we never landed on the moon at all.

  3. No backup?! by Enselic · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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..."

  4. Remakes? by BACPro · · Score: 5, Funny

    With remakes being the rage in Hollywood, this shouldn't be a problem at all...

  5. Hoboy. by Soko · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Houston, we have a problem..."

    Soko

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  6. Re:Dupe? by Quaoar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you get it? Slashdot is backing up this story so such a disaster can never happen to them.

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  7. Re:"lost moon pictures" by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  8. I found it! by soft_guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found it. NASA can thank me later.

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    1. Re:I found it! by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Here's the real one. A little too real.

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  9. Re:Yeah, right... by Aufero · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  10. Re:100 year format by henriquemaia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry too much about that - geeks don't even get laid, so there's no point of talking about your great-grandchildren.

  11. Re:Checklist by meatflower · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you really used AOL that would have been all in caps, not just the last part.