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Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs
mikael writes "The LA Times is reporting on the efforts of a group of volunteers with funding from NASA to recover high resolution photographs of the Moon taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 in the 1960s. The collection of 2000 images is stored entirely on magnetic tape which can only be read by a $330,000 FR-900 Ampex magnetic tape reader. The team consisted of Nancy Evans, NASA's archivist who ensured that the 20-foot by 10-foot x 6-foot collection of magnetic tapes were never thrown out, Dennis Wingo, Keith Cowing of NASA Watch and Ken Zim who had experience of repairing video equipment. Two weeks ago, the second image, of the Copernicus Crater, was recovered."
Due to his work, we discovered additional alien structures on the moon!
Don't worry. I'm working on a project that will, in 40 years, be able to extrapolate the missing details for the jpeg images, producing ultra-high resolution 3d videos. I will then make those videos available on YouTube.
They filmed aliens dancing on the Whitehouse lawn and posing with Congress, but it was in Betamax and had expired DRM, preventing viewing.
Table-ized A.I.
When they recovered them, they stored them safely on 5.25" floppy disks, where they'd be readable for a long time to co....
Wait a minute....
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Except for "hanging chads".
my dwarf porn collection stimulates my package just fine, thank you.
I can't find the correct Slashdot article, but if I could I would had linked it, anyway:
Engrave it into stone!
Or well, come to think about it, that's already been done in a 1:1 version, with auto-updates and all!
Paper, no matter how much it turns yellow, will still be readable if the information on it is holes through the paper.
Unless your dog gets a hold of it.