NASA Has the Lost Tapes 256
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.'"
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny)
Cool, any UFOs? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Can we.... (Score:4, Funny)
Yes we can, however our parents will shout down the stairs for us to shut up.
Headline (Score:5, Funny)
Initially I thought the headline read "Nasa Has Lost the Tapes", and I almost believed it. "What? Already? They lost them again? Those idiots! ... oh wait."
Re:Can we.... (Score:5, Funny)
Lost Tapes (Score:5, Funny)
Moonwalk? (Score:2, Funny)
Clearly the first moonwalk was done by Michael Jackson, we saw it live on television
Re:Greatly improved quality? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Headline (Score:2, Funny)
Decade of the remakes? (Score:5, Funny)
Now even this great movie of fiction gets a remake? Or will it just be a weak director's cut, to prepare for the lauch of the sequel "Mars mission"?
I hope it will have better props this time. They were pretty unrealistic, and clearly retouched (or 'shopped in 2009 speak) in that old movie.
NASA intentionally delayed ... (Score:5, Funny)
... release of the high resolution version until the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD format issue was settled.
Don't fall for it (Score:3, Funny)
Paradox alert (Score:4, Funny)
NASA doesn't have any lost tapes. If they have found them, they are by definition not lost anymore. I bet there are dozens of tapes that are lost because nobody knows their location but these tapes are not one of them. Correct headline would be "NASA has the found tapes". Sounds redundant? In the human mind that may be the case but if you think about it long enough, you can only come to this conclusion. Being lost is quite a fleeting and interesting feature and has no doubt been studied by filosophers around the ages.
Re:Greatly improved quality? (Score:5, Funny)
It's higher quality because the broadcast version was converted to standard TV by pointing a video camera at a screen showing the transmitted version.
I knew it! Those NASA bastards exploited the analog hole. Quick, get the MPAA on the phone and have somebody distract NewYorkCountryLawyer so he can't interfere. We finally have NASA right where we want them.....
Typographical error. (Score:2, Funny)
As speculated a few weeks ago, NASA has found and is starting to redact the lost Apollo 11 tapes.
There, fixed that for ya.
Re:Future preservation plans? (Score:2, Funny)
Same way most data reaches the general public [thepiratebay.org]
Re:Cool, any UFOs? (Score:3, Funny)
Why do you think we are of an concern to them? Allegedy - Allegedy - the UFO just sat there at the edge of the crater for a while, then moved off once the astronauts came out. The aliens are not the ones concerned. So why would they be concerned about our ability to use chemical-based engines to reach our first orbital body if the travel between stars?
As for our government control, that Russian hacker who got arrested for breaking tin to NASA computers allegedly had recovered images with alien craft. Now finally the astronauts have started to acknoledge alien contact
Alien moon base [subversiveelement.com]
Re:In answer to your question (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, we definitely landed on the moon, just not when NASA claimed.
Apollo 13 was the only mission to actually get there.
Re:Headline (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Future preservation plans? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Paradox alert (Score:2, Funny)
But the misspelling made you think, and that's what philosophers like to due.
Re:I said all along (Score:2, Funny)
But, you see, I found Abby Normal's brain more fascinating.
Re:Paradox alert (Score:1, Funny)
You've both lost me...
Re:Can we.... (Score:3, Funny)
Already exists - called the Karma bonus
Re:Cool, any UFOs? (Score:5, Funny)
No, these are just the "Special Edition" version of the faked moon landing tapes. It was "produced" by Lucas Films, in collaboration with NASA, and contain newly added footage and CGI-enhanced visuals.
They look great, but some have already complained that the new tapes show Buzz Aldrin touching the surface first, which completely changes the character and motivation of the scene.
-dZ.
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah,
And to make it really convincing, shoot it in color, and 1080p.
With that quality, everyone can se the details of the moon, and be convinced they actually was there.
Re:Cool, any UFOs? (Score:3, Funny)
They look great, but some have already complained that the new tapes show Buzz Aldrin touching the surface first, which completely changes the character and motivation of the scene.
I can accept that, but what really ruined the tapes for me was the new extended musical sequence.
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny)
They can't reshoot it without Michael Jackson