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Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online
Pooua writes "SpaceRef reports that NASA and Arizona State University have teamed up to offer all of NASA's Apollo lunar films online at no charge. The images are scanned from the original films at high resolution, then offered as 16-bit TIFF or 8-bit PNG or ISIS files. The project is expected to take 3 years, but some images are already available. The ASU-NASA website is located at the Arizona State University Apollo Image Archive."
Does this mean that there will finally be an oscar for the set design?
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I found a hair on one of the images. The last one, just SE of the hill in the center of the crater. For some reason, this amuses me.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
16-bit TIFF or 8-bit PNG? Why don't they use 16-bit PNG?
the conspiracy nuts will be out feeding on this one. I can't believe that in this day and age, people still refuse to believe that we never landed on the moon. I'll tell you what. If I could arrange a meeting with someone who believes it was a hoax, and Jim Lovell (Apollo 13), I'd pay 100 bucks to see him punch the jackass in the face after the nut tells him that it was all a hoax. Lovell & his crew almost DIED in space because of the explosion. Plus, if it were a hoax, explain all the moon rocks, the returning spacecraft splash down etc. The problem with a conspiracy such as landing on the moon would require hundreds of thousands of people to keep their mouths shut. Sorry, this conspiracy like all others is debunked.
out of the government. I've been searching for videos of nuclear detonations online forever and haven't come up with anything. Maybe it's time to try again...
i took a bitchslapping for natalie portman
For any interested parties, the Apollo Archive is another great project to put Apollo media online.
So, has anyone yet found the lost original tapes of the Apollo 11 landing?
It's amazing, looking at the samples they have on the site, the depth of resolution they have and, correspondentially, the vast range of crater sizes. Someone could write some software to extrapolate from just a couple of these photos, not only the distribution of meteor sizes in earth's vicinity, but the progression of the distribution of sizes through time.
In 1969 the Americans first landed men on the moon. Now some people have made names for themselves by saying that this and subsequent landings never happened. Their position is that NASA faked them in order to save face and fool the public. To prove their point they rely on explanations of the reported events using dubious science and lay explanations that any first year science major would and does, laugh at.
However, they always miss or purposely avoid the the one piece of irrefutable proof that it did in fact happen. That is that the Soviet government never refuted the American claims and they were in a unique position to do so. For even after the Americans landed on the moon the Soviets still continued to send orbiters, landers and rovers to the moon.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetar y_lunar.html
Now if they wanted to get the goods on the Americans all they had to do was to land, photograph or explore with a rover the American landing sights. Just imagine the embarrassment not to mention the the damage to American credibility, at the height of the cold war no less, that such information would generate. Records even show that they never landed or even explored that areas that that American landings happened. So they did not even go and look to make sure because they knew it really happened.
But they did not. They did not use it to pressure the Americans to stop bombing North Vietnam and Cambodia where Soviet military advisers were being killed as a result. They did not use it to pressure the United States to stop sending military advisers to and providing Stinger missiles to the Afghan fighters during the Soviet occupation. They did not use it to stop the Star Wars program of the Regan administration.
In fact they did not even use it to turn the West's attention away from the Soviet Union during the Soviet Coup of 1991 when members of the Soviet government briefly deposed Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_coup_attempt_o f_1991
Which every body knew was the last death throws of the Soviet empire. If they did not use the information then to turn the attention of the American, and world public, inward to their own governments lies and thus corruption and force it to ignore the events in the Soviet Union in order to deal with a damaging domestic and international issue. Then the proof of faked moon landings did not and never existed.
One final thought. After the fall of the Soviet Union the Russian economy tanked. People were selling all kinds of stuff owed by the crumbling state, ships, weapons, artworks and knowledge but nobody ever approached any Western news agency or tabloid to sell them this information. And to say that one would buy it but not publish is foolish. The seller could just keep peddling it until some on did and then it would be old news and worthless until then it would still be worth something.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/testfilms.aspx
Mars was the original home of Humanity before the great collapse of the atmosphere that protected the early Martian People. This was 70 thousand years (earth) ago.
They narrowly avoided the disaster in time thanks to their Chief Scientist AlGor who warned of the impending doom.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Don't forget that many of the original broadcasts from the Lunar surface are missing. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/artic le1218885.ece
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Does this mean that we'll see tips on how to mix drinks in 0 gravity, too?
What is an ISIS file?
...the Soviets were in on it. ;-)
Interpreted as: There's a lot of cheap labor at ASU. So graduate, do you want to scan NASA films or work at McDonalds?
But I couldn't find the American flag.
put it in the bit bucket
You can see Bugs Bunny in the lower right hand corner.
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
It should be noted that this project seems to be all about the various stills taken. When I saw the word "films" in the title it didn't imply stills to me. But a great thing nonetheless.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny - Aesop
Then suddenly they were withdrawn. Probably the bandwidth at that time made it far too expensive!
Glad to see they're coming back though...
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It's in this footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzuP_NuuvCM
I realize someone mentioned apolloarchive, but Nasa also has an incredible amount of Apollo material online.
Almost everything you want to know about the mission op's is here.
The Apollo 11 landing from 11 minutes out is amazing, including the 1202's. But I have to admit, the one that sends shivers down my spine every time I watch it is Apollo 17. Cernan & Schmitt's reaction after the pitchover when they see the landing zone is better than anything you've ever seen in a movie, ever.
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Actually, they say the original films (at least some types) do have high contrast, so they were able to modify the Leica to scan at 14 bits instead of the standard 12 bits to capture all the detail from the film that they can.