Ok, it's too late and I'm right about to hit the sakc so I've no time to read up on things, but as far as I remember, there are already better versions of the Apollo 11 video footage than the popular one making the rounds. The missing tapes are the recordings of the raw signal from the spaceship. This is not NTSC and it takes a custom machine to read data off the tapes. This machine, if it still exists and is functioning, can playback the video and the better quality copies were made off of this screen. The live broadcast (and poor quality copy) was made in a different way that degraded the quality further. Even so, of course it's great if they found the recordings. If they dedicate to build a new tape machine they could even digitize the signals and process them which should make for the best quality version of course.
Nevertheless, it's completely innane to think this has any bearing on any stupid conspiracy theory. There are already excellent video (well, excellent as far as the technology was capable of back then) from later missions, as well as 16mm film footage from the data acquisition cameras. This footage will still be superior to Apollo 11's, even with the best of reconstructions.
Would work great as a cinematic piece, but the truth is that it was not Neil Armstrong that made such a decision. The 1202 and 1201 master alarms meant that the Apollo Guidance Computer was getting overloaded because the rendezvous radar was inadvertently left in the wrong setting. The master alarms shook everyone up seriously, but Steve Bales in mission control recognized that it was okay to go ahead and made that call.
The Pirate Party probably brought out a lot of people (mostly young males) who wouldn't otherwise vote. The voter turnout in Sweden was something like 43%, which is atrocious but still in the top of Europe, and higher than last EU election. Then there is also the case that the right-wing party, the Sweden Democrats, got something like 3.3% of the votes, which is not so far from the limit (4%?). Had the Pirate Party not existed, most likely SD would have gotten more votes and made it into the parlimant, perhaps even by a large margin. So I wouldn't say Sweden is exactly inoculated...
As has already been mentioned, the very first footprint has likely been damaged/destroyed already since it was (obviously) positioned right in the path Neil and Buzz would have to traverse to get into and out of the LEM.
Furthermore, people are talking about a photo of the first footprint, but I'm guessing they are thinking of the famous photo that Buzz took of his own boot impression (as part of analyzing the soil characteristics):
The photographic system on the spacecraft was 70mm optical film that was processed on board the spacecraft and then electronically scanned and transmitted to earth.
Unfortunately it seems that citizens of almost any country believe their country to be, if not the best in the world, at least certainly better than the country of their critics...
The whole thing about this Swedish IPRED debacle is that it's not the police nor the government that are doing the investigations or raidings. It's private interests such as representatives or the record or movie industry. In some capacity, these groups have now been given more authority than the police, because awhile ago it was ruled that the police were not allowed to force ISPs to release subscription data on IP-addresses suspected of being used to break copyright law, because copyright-violation was not a serious enough crime to warrant it.
But now private groups can petition the ISPs (through the courts) for the identity of subscribers behind IP-addresses claimed to be used for "illegal filesharing"...
If you start with the drum track then everybody can play along with that recording and there's no need for any click track to keep everything in synch. It can even be the same individual playing all the instruments...
I picked three which have produced pretty popular and well-known games, but there are more as shown in the wikipedia link.
Sweden is not a large country population-wise, so in my opinion that's not such a bad record. Music is pretty popular export as well.
Now, try to consider my main point (privacy) also if you please...
Anyway, if some country does in fact not export copyrighted works, it might not be the most stupid thing to relax copyright laws...
And in these days of ever increasing surveillance, a desire for freedom of privacy (the main focus of Piratpartiet) is 6-year old reasoning of course... Maybe I should add a 'lol' or something to lend credence to my post...
Everyone who is arguing against Dijkstra and saying that programing is about engineering, not writing formulas or proofs, remember your words when the software patent debate pops up again...
Most of the universe is space, right? Matter clumps together in formations such as planets and stars, but most of the solar system consists of space. Same for galaxies, and clusters. So, if something were to permeate all that space, well, the density wouldn't need to be very much to still have a large effect.
So, if dark energy exists, it will also exist here, but the local effect is too small to measure, and only when looking at a much bigger picture can we see something.
Well, that's my lay man understanding...
Sadly, I'm not sure it's such a rare thing to see. I've flown SAS and Finnair to Japan and both used Linux systems for the in-flight entertainment system. Unfortunately both systems also crashed and had to be rebooted repeatedly:(
Once they had to actually move me to another seat because the system wouldn't play anything other than the flight map...
Of course, both still beat KLM which didn't even have a private system, just a preset movie on a monitor hanging over the aisle.
You are right that it's more expensive for USAnians but I live in Sweden though. I bought my PSX for 4500SEK (Swedish kronor) in...hmmm...it would have been 1995 or 1996. I see the Playstation 3 selling for 4490SEK now, so for us it's the same...
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Honestly, I couldn't remember their names, so I made a quick google and Bales came up. But I do recognize Garman now. So yeah, you're right.
Ok, it's too late and I'm right about to hit the sakc so I've no time to read up on things, but as far as I remember, there are already better versions of the Apollo 11 video footage than the popular one making the rounds. The missing tapes are the recordings of the raw signal from the spaceship. This is not NTSC and it takes a custom machine to read data off the tapes. This machine, if it still exists and is functioning, can playback the video and the better quality copies were made off of this screen. The live broadcast (and poor quality copy) was made in a different way that degraded the quality further. Even so, of course it's great if they found the recordings. If they dedicate to build a new tape machine they could even digitize the signals and process them which should make for the best quality version of course. Nevertheless, it's completely innane to think this has any bearing on any stupid conspiracy theory. There are already excellent video (well, excellent as far as the technology was capable of back then) from later missions, as well as 16mm film footage from the data acquisition cameras. This footage will still be superior to Apollo 11's, even with the best of reconstructions.
Would work great as a cinematic piece, but the truth is that it was not Neil Armstrong that made such a decision. The 1202 and 1201 master alarms meant that the Apollo Guidance Computer was getting overloaded because the rendezvous radar was inadvertently left in the wrong setting. The master alarms shook everyone up seriously, but Steve Bales in mission control recognized that it was okay to go ahead and made that call.
The Pirate Party probably brought out a lot of people (mostly young males) who wouldn't otherwise vote. The voter turnout in Sweden was something like 43%, which is atrocious but still in the top of Europe, and higher than last EU election. Then there is also the case that the right-wing party, the Sweden Democrats, got something like 3.3% of the votes, which is not so far from the limit (4%?). Had the Pirate Party not existed, most likely SD would have gotten more votes and made it into the parlimant, perhaps even by a large margin. So I wouldn't say Sweden is exactly inoculated...
Story line might okay. I would worry more about game play (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(video_game))
As has already been mentioned, the very first footprint has likely been damaged/destroyed already since it was (obviously) positioned right in the path Neil and Buzz would have to traverse to get into and out of the LEM.
Furthermore, people are talking about a photo of the first footprint, but I'm guessing they are thinking of the famous photo that Buzz took of his own boot impression (as part of analyzing the soil characteristics):
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5877HR.jpg
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5878HR.jpg
This was taken quite some time after Neil first stepped onto the lunar surface.
The first footprint might be hiding somewhere in thid photo that Neil took of Buzz coming down the ladder:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5869HR.jpg
Not so easy to tell which one it would be though, and it's in shadow...
Why would such behaviour be illegal?
Ummm, yeah...or, just drop the "teach"-part and just make a kendou or iaidou party game and leave the teaching in the doujou where it belongs.
The photographic system on the spacecraft was 70mm optical film that was processed on board the spacecraft and then electronically scanned and transmitted to earth.
Not exactly. I think that in the USA, the police can also get the information from the ISPs, no?
Unfortunately it seems that citizens of almost any country believe their country to be, if not the best in the world, at least certainly better than the country of their critics...
The whole thing about this Swedish IPRED debacle is that it's not the police nor the government that are doing the investigations or raidings. It's private interests such as representatives or the record or movie industry. In some capacity, these groups have now been given more authority than the police, because awhile ago it was ruled that the police were not allowed to force ISPs to release subscription data on IP-addresses suspected of being used to break copyright law, because copyright-violation was not a serious enough crime to warrant it.
But now private groups can petition the ISPs (through the courts) for the identity of subscribers behind IP-addresses claimed to be used for "illegal filesharing"...
Welcome to the future :(
Miljöterrorist!
If you start with the drum track then everybody can play along with that recording and there's no need for any click track to keep everything in synch. It can even be the same individual playing all the instruments...
That flag is already knocked over by the exhaust fumes from the ascent stage. And maybe even disintegrated by now...
Heard of a fellow by the name of Bergman? :)
Anyway, bored now...
I picked three which have produced pretty popular and well-known games, but there are more as shown in the wikipedia link. Sweden is not a large country population-wise, so in my opinion that's not such a bad record. Music is pretty popular export as well. Now, try to consider my main point (privacy) also if you please... Anyway, if some country does in fact not export copyrighted works, it might not be the most stupid thing to relax copyright laws...
Yeah, Sweden has no game producers...
http://www.starbreeze.com/
http://www.dice.se/
http://www.avalanchestudios.se/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_companies_of_Sweden
And in these days of ever increasing surveillance, a desire for freedom of privacy (the main focus of Piratpartiet) is 6-year old reasoning of course...
Maybe I should add a 'lol' or something to lend credence to my post...
What legal rights would someone have to be able to disallow others from using legally acquired software on hardware of their own choosing?
Everyone who is arguing against Dijkstra and saying that programing is about engineering, not writing formulas or proofs, remember your words when the software patent debate pops up again...
Most of the universe is space, right? Matter clumps together in formations such as planets and stars, but most of the solar system consists of space. Same for galaxies, and clusters. So, if something were to permeate all that space, well, the density wouldn't need to be very much to still have a large effect. So, if dark energy exists, it will also exist here, but the local effect is too small to measure, and only when looking at a much bigger picture can we see something. Well, that's my lay man understanding...
Two weeks ago, coming back to Europe from Japan. Same when going there as well. Someone said it depends which day of the week you are going, heh.
Sadly, I'm not sure it's such a rare thing to see. I've flown SAS and Finnair to Japan and both used Linux systems for the in-flight entertainment system. Unfortunately both systems also crashed and had to be rebooted repeatedly :(
Once they had to actually move me to another seat because the system wouldn't play anything other than the flight map...
Of course, both still beat KLM which didn't even have a private system, just a preset movie on a monitor hanging over the aisle.
You are right that it's more expensive for USAnians but I live in Sweden though. I bought my PSX for 4500SEK (Swedish kronor) in...hmmm...it would have been 1995 or 1996. I see the Playstation 3 selling for 4490SEK now, so for us it's the same...
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