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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.'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLN_Jcg1pc&feature=related
its more stupid to 'lose' stuff just in the convenient time than plain out let it out.
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I'm pretty sure anything even slightly controversial will be edited off the tapes before they're released. I wouldn't trust NASA to release any information other than random discoveries.
Do you D?
These tapes come from the secret hollywood set where they filmed the moon landings, you idiot.
I tried to go once, but it turned out that the tickets are $19 bucks. Is it worth the price?
If $19 is too much you have more pressing concerns than being enriched with history and science.
no, no. these are the original faked mission tapes, CGI done with analog computers, otherwise known as anal-CGI, done by way of the non-linear characteristics of the bridge-rectum-fryer driving a sextode W. Allen orgasmotron.
wouldn't they be common today?
surely technology has skyrocketed since then.
does anyone really remember what 'state of the art' was in 1969?
everything was overly heavy and large and bulky. The IC had just been mass produced 6 years earlier.
In fact, every major advancement we achieved in any form of technology for the two decades after was due to the moon missions.
I'm just wondering why we haven't gone back? No money? No interest?
Not possible?
They're using their grammar skills there.