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."

Boffins?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

But this begs the question - can anyone at NASA do the moonwalk convincingly?

Impetuous minds want to know.

good news bad news

[Tablizer]

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.
     

HD

[Anonymous Coward]

It just means that NASA re-shot the moon landing using HD on the Hollywood back lot.

Re:good news bad news

[basil64]

...or He will unleash a 'Rain Of Fire' and destroy the moon. ( Once they figure out that whole ballistics/propulsion thing.... )

Re:HD

[Tablizer]

It just means that NASA re-shot the moon landing using HD on the Hollywood back lot.

Hopefully they also added the explosions and giant space worm I keep asking for. I thought of a green 3-breasted moon-babe, but realized that may be over-doing it.
     

Re:Hope

[FooAtWFU]

Greatest achievement since Columbus? Columbus and the Apollo programs were the exact opposites of each other. The Apollo engineers had a pretty accurate idea of what they were setting out to accomplish, while Columbus stumbled across the New World despite sheer ignorance and wrongheadedness and was really lucky not to die through sheer incompetence.

Also, despite the incompetence, subsequent colonization of the New World has resulted in something substantially useful (the US GDP alone is over $13 trillion!) Granted, sure, the Moon hasn't had long enough to catch up, but it's got a long way to go... and no, a few random spinoff NASA technologies aren't really worth talking about.

Re:Hope

[Anonymous Coward]

a "few" random spinoff technologies? Funniest thing I've ever read. Thank you sir!

Re:Boffins?

[CarpetShark]

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

That's why people call you pervert ;)

Re:good news bad news

[Sporkinum]

RAAAAIIIIIINNNNN! Colbert shakes fist....

Re:May "or may not"

[KritonK]

I demand that these tapes may or may not be the Apollo video!

What they don't tell you

[The_mad_linguist]

What they aren't saying is that the Sunday Press borrowed them all along, and never returned them.

They didn't even bother to rewind, those selfish jerks.

Re:good news bad news

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

   

I say offer the whole Jackson family and see if he'll go for it. I'd say to offer to throw in Brittany Spears but that might be pushing our luck.

Re:Promotional material

[The_mad_linguist]

>But I find it a remarkable and wholly unbelievable coincidence that they were found just before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Hey, would *you* check the time capsule?

Re:HD

[morgan_greywolf]

It just means that NASA re-shot the moon landing using HD on the Hollywood back lot.

And the only question remaining is: does Buzz Aldrin shoot first in the new version?

May or may not be?

[maxwell demon]

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

Vroomfondel, is that you?

Re:Hope

[clang_jangle]

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...

Re:Hope

[K. S. Kyosuke]

"It was sheer luck that the Americas happened to exist right about where Asia wasn't."

Tell that to IT job positions, someone gave them Columbus's old map and they carried on in the search for India from the place where Columbus had stopped.

Re:We have had the videos *all along* you IDIOT

[jra]

I'm going to assume that whatever you're going on about here is a posting that someone has already deleted...

Re:One Giant Screwup for Mankind

[marcello_dl]

> It happens because 'formerly' has a rhotacized schwa in the second syllable...
O rly?

Re:Hope

[Hognoxious]

What is this "overloaded computer" of which you speak.

It's when you pull the central strip of the slide rule too far and it pops out, then you have to try and a) find it and b.1) put it back in b.2) the right way round b.3) the right way up. Not easy with the coke bottle glasses which all engineers wore in those days.

Re:Boffins?

[dkleinsc]

Besides, wouldn't losing lots of video be something more likely to happen to a Took than a Boffin?

Re:Hope

[Fluffeh]

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

We do this EVERY week.

Re:Hope

[fractoid]

...stealing from other peoples history and legend to create their own.

I dunno what you're Tolkein about.

Re:Hope

[Nefarious Wheel]

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.