NASA Searching for Moon Landing Tapes

[Deepak]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2313850&CMPOTC-RSSFeeds0312

WASHINGTON Aug 15, 2006 (AP)— NASA officials are searching for the original videotapes from the first moon landing in 1969 in the hopes that they can use modern technology to produce sharper images of the event.

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They should have stored them carefully.

 

[Sxotty]

It is not just that from what I read previously, the old tapes actually have sharper images than the ones broadcast and the ones they have now. The information was never transferred to another medium before the tapes were lost. Thus there is no need for modern novel technology, but rather simply watching the old tapes on the specialized old machines on a CRT monitor will provide better defenition than watching the old tv footage etc...

 

[Dresden]

They should have stored them carefully.[/QUOTE] NASA losing things? Unheard of!

 

[AlNom]

They can just digitally recreate them.

 

[zsouthboy]

They should just set the studio back up the way it was.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Hey, it's only the difference between shaky cam footage and the source....the original moon landing video was shot by pointing a video camera at a high res NASA monitor.

This is f-ing sad.

 

[Deepak]

They should just wait for PS3 launch.

 

[Dresden]

Hey, it's only the difference between shaky cam footage and the source....the original moon landing video was shot by pointing a video camera at a high res NASA monitor.

This is f-ing sad.

Man, I was so tempted to post the Halo 2 E3 shaky came video and claim it was the NASA landing footage.

 

[digitalwanderer]

When I first read about it I was just in bloody shock, how could they NOT have transfered that over years ago and archived it and made it available to the public!

 

[Deepak]

Man, I was so tempted to post the Halo 2 E3 shaky came video and claim it was the NASA landing footage.

Post it!:smile:

But I find it really pathetic that they didn't store them properly (the most valuable tapes in Mankind's history).

 

[London Geezer]

Can't they just set the studio back up, employ a couple of actors, shoot in high def, apply a few filters and backdate the tapes??

 

[_xxx_]

Or just use UE3 to recreate it. I'm sure Epic would be happy to do that for a few mio.

 

[Tagrineth]

I'm sure Source would be much cheaper for the job.

 

[_xxx_]

I'm sure Source would be much cheaper for the job.

I'd tuck in a few of those tripods as well for some more fun. Imagine Armstrong fighting the Combine... sweet!

 

[zsouthboy]

I'd tuck in a few of those tripods as well for some more fun. Imagine Armstrong fighting the Combine... sweet!

I totally heard Peter Griffin in my head right there.

"Freakin sweet!"

 

[Mummy]

Money spent elsewhere

They should just go back on the moon and stfu.

 

[Sxotty]

They should just go back on the moon and stfu.

True enough

 

[digitalwanderer]

On Colbert last night he offered to let NASA borrow his studio to re-film it.

 

[LunchBox]

They should go and buy that DVD from one of those infomercials late at night. They seem to have the "lost" footage in their DVDs. I forgot exactly which one it was. Ithink it was a "Time Magazine" infomercial... if you subscribe for like 2 years, they'll give you that darn DVD.

 

[Tahir2]

http://www.stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_landings.htm

Missing tape found!