Unseen Moon Landing Video Released 212
bazzalunatic writes "Digitally remastered footage of the moon landing, including high-quality and brighter images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder will be shown for the first time ever to the general public at an awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia. The magnetic data tapes seem to have all been lost — erased — by NASA, so all that's left are VHS recordings, which have been restored, giving the best-ever film of the whole moon landing. The publicity over this seems to be pushing NASA into releasing the whole 3-hour recording."
Old men (Score:5, Insightful)
An old man, sitting in his couch, watching himself in an old college football match. Repeating over and over the twenty seconds where he scored a touchdown.
But the old man isn't really old. He has a strong, young body. He could stand up and go play another football match. Score another touchdown. But he's too tired, so he'll just play the old tape. Over and over again.
Who did it? (Score:2, Insightful)
"We discovered, to our horror, that in the 1970s and 80s NASA had taken the tapes in the national archive and erased them all to record other missions."
It's an archive, right? There will be records of who did this, yes? And you have the death penalty in the US - which you tend to otherwise use for inconsequential stuff mostly?
Re:Old men (Score:4, Insightful)
Higher Quality?!?! (Score:2, Insightful)
Really? in my opinion it looks like crap. The original one has some noise, and a hell of a lot more detail, look at the moon's surface around the rover compared to this "higher quality" remaster. There is almost no detail there, just a gray blur.
It literally looks like they just removed the little bit of noise, which i really didn't see a problem with, and then ran it though a soft focus filter
Re:VHS recordings? (Score:3, Insightful)
So... Taken with a high definition camera, beamed 400,000 km, received in Australia, displayed on a low resolution screen, recorded with a camera pointed at said screen, sent around the world to the US, saved on reel to reel tapes, dubbed from reel to reel to VHS, digitized and uploaded to a computer, digitally enhanced, and then made available to the world on the internet. And even ignoring the fact that every step of the process could only ever remove information, it's still probably one of the most important and historically interesting videos humanity has ever created.
I'm not impressed (Score:3, Insightful)
I know "they always intended for it to be brighter and in high definition but they didn't have the budget to do it at the time..." Call me when they announce that it is being remade in 3D.
Re:VHS recordings? (Score:3, Insightful)
Usually I do RTFA, but in this case I didn't see what TFA could add, unless the video of the landing itself is linked. There are way too many times I bother to go to TFA only to find that it's just the /. summary with a lot of padding and usually a whole lot of annoying advertising. (example) [slashdot.org]
Re:Isn't that summary wrong? (Score:3, Insightful)
Not really. It's like Leonardo himself deciding that, rather than buy a new canvas, he will reuse one of his old paintings--perhaps that old one with the very impressive landscape that won him all those awards and praise, but which is mostly forgotten in his attic by now--and paint over it a picture of a chick he saw walk by the market yesterday, with a sensual and intriguing smile.
-dZ.
Re:VHS recordings? (Score:1, Insightful)
> So... Taken with a high definition camera
Can you define "high definition" in this context?
Re:Abuse (Score:1, Insightful)
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
Re:Urm (Score:3, Insightful)
The landing was in 1969. The OP has problems with Math and/or time. If he happens to be from this planet.
Re:Who did it? (Score:2, Insightful)
And you have the death penalty in the US - which you tend to otherwise use for inconsequential stuff mostly?
Yeah we in the US tend to use the death penalty all willy nilly, mainly on those who put long term planning into their well thought out murders. But I'm sure you didn' t know any of the victims so you personally could say those crimes were inconsequential.
...not saying the death penalty its right, just saying the US isn't all like the worlds caricature of Texas. Aside from their ridiculous school text book mandates, neither is all of Texas for that matter.
It's understandable. (Score:3, Insightful)
People believe it was faked because they don't want to believe we were capable of something 40 years ago that we are not capable of today. They want to have hope for the future, but the moon landing is an obvious sign of decline (or rather, the fact that it happened so long and we can't do it today is an obvious sign of decline).
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