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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."

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  1. good news bad news by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.
         

  2. Re:Boffins? by CarpetShark · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone called ME a boffin, I might be obliged to bandy their knickers a bit.

    That's why people call you pervert ;)

  3. May or may not be? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

    some tapes may or may not have been found which may or may not be the Apollo video.

    Vroomfondel, is that you?

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  4. Re:Hope by clang_jangle · · Score: 4, Funny

    and no, a few random spinoff NASA technologies aren't really worth talking about.

    Oh yeah, smart guy? What about about Jack Klompus's astronaut pen? It writes upside down...

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  5. Re:Hope by Fluffeh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, *puhleeze*, let's not start that thread again; we just did it last week. :-)

    We do this EVERY week.

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  6. Re:Hope by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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