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NASA Has the Lost Tapes
The Shuttle launch may have been delayed by two days, but NASA has better news to report. caffiend666 writes "As speculated a few weeks ago, NASA has found and is starting to restore the lost Apollo 11 tapes. A Briefing will be held July 16th at the Newseum in Washington to 'release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk... The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards.'"
Yeah, what's the big deal? Just set up the studio and make the tapes again!
Yes we can, however our parents will shout down the stairs for us to shut up.
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
Initially I thought the headline read "Nasa Has Lost the Tapes", and I almost believed it. "What? Already? They lost them again? Those idiots! ... oh wait."
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
We should have a -1 - Lives with parents mod.
After the 2nd season, I found it boring. And honestly NASA, tapes? Use a dvr if you're going to record Lost.
the truth is that they had the tapes all along... its just that the technology finally exists to remove all the alien spacecraft from the footage. Now they can show it to us in the alien free form god intended
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
Now even this great movie of fiction gets a remake? Or will it just be a weak director's cut, to prepare for the lauch of the sequel "Mars mission"?
I hope it will have better props this time. They were pretty unrealistic, and clearly retouched (or 'shopped in 2009 speak) in that old movie.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
... release of the high resolution version until the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD format issue was settled.
Have gnu, will travel.
NASA doesn't have any lost tapes. If they have found them, they are by definition not lost anymore. I bet there are dozens of tapes that are lost because nobody knows their location but these tapes are not one of them. Correct headline would be "NASA has the found tapes". Sounds redundant? In the human mind that may be the case but if you think about it long enough, you can only come to this conclusion. Being lost is quite a fleeting and interesting feature and has no doubt been studied by filosophers around the ages.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
It's higher quality because the broadcast version was converted to standard TV by pointing a video camera at a screen showing the transmitted version.
I knew it! Those NASA bastards exploited the analog hole. Quick, get the MPAA on the phone and have somebody distract NewYorkCountryLawyer so he can't interfere. We finally have NASA right where we want them.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Oh, we definitely landed on the moon, just not when NASA claimed.
Apollo 13 was the only mission to actually get there.
No, these are just the "Special Edition" version of the faked moon landing tapes. It was "produced" by Lucas Films, in collaboration with NASA, and contain newly added footage and CGI-enhanced visuals.
They look great, but some have already complained that the new tapes show Buzz Aldrin touching the surface first, which completely changes the character and motivation of the scene.
-dZ.
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