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Has NASA Found the Lost Moon Tapes?
jra writes "For over 5 years, various people both inside and retired from NASA have been engaged in a quest. They were looking for the long-lost original slow-scan video tapes from the Apollo 11 moon landing, which went missing in a record-keeping snafu, covered in unreasonable detail in a Wired article a couple years ago. Well now, according to the UK's Sunday Express newspaper, some tapes may or may not have been found which may or may not be the Apollo video. Apparently — I love the British press — the NASA boffins are a bit put out that it leaked; they were hoping to blow everyone's minds with the scoop themselves."
If someone called ME a boffin, I might be obliged to bandy their knickers a bit.
But this begs the question - can anyone at NASA do the moonwalk convincingly?
Impetuous minds want to know.
The good news is they found the tapes. The bad news is Kim Jong-il has them and wants 20 billion dollars, part of South Korea, and a lock of Michael Jackson's hair.
Table-ized A.I.
It just means that NASA re-shot the moon landing using HD on the Hollywood back lot.
Also, despite the incompetence, subsequent colonization of the New World has resulted in something substantially useful (the US GDP alone is over $13 trillion!) Granted, sure, the Moon hasn't had long enough to catch up, but it's got a long way to go... and no, a few random spinoff NASA technologies aren't really worth talking about.
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a "few" random spinoff technologies? Funniest thing I've ever read. Thank you sir!
I demand that these tapes may or may not be the Apollo video!
What they aren't saying is that the Sunday Press borrowed them all along, and never returned them.
They didn't even bother to rewind, those selfish jerks.
>But I find it a remarkable and wholly unbelievable coincidence that they were found just before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Hey, would *you* check the time capsule?
Vroomfondel, is that you?
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Oh yeah, smart guy? What about about Jack Klompus's astronaut pen? It writes upside down...
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Tell that to IT job positions, someone gave them Columbus's old map and they carried on in the search for India from the place where Columbus had stopped.
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I'm going to assume that whatever you're going on about here is a posting that someone has already deleted...
> It happens because 'formerly' has a rhotacized schwa in the second syllable...
O rly?
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It's when you pull the central strip of the slide rule too far and it pops out, then you have to try and a) find it and b.1) put it back in b.2) the right way round b.3) the right way up. Not easy with the coke bottle glasses which all engineers wore in those days.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Oh, *puhleeze*, let's not start that thread again; we just did it last week. :-)
We do this EVERY week.
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...stealing from other peoples history and legend to create their own.
I dunno what you're Tolkein about.
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a "few" random spinoff technologies? Funniest thing I've ever read. Thank you sir!
And quite ironic. Unless he wrote his response on a machine without miniaturised electronics - diesel typewriter perhaps.
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