Comments on: NASA Finds Lost “Clear” Footage from Original Moon Landing, To Be Released on 40th Anniversary

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:39:21 +0000

Where is the “clear” video from the mars landers? We have it for the moon but not from Mars?

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:48:18 +0000

Great band name: the Apollo Apologists!

Okay, I think I get it now; there is no moon; it’s just an image projected on the great inverted bowl over out heads (which is run by gnomes and kobolds) by NASA. The sun is projected by GE. The stars are the night lights of the kobolds’ kids.

I tell ya, there is no China, and Interstate highways are a myth, as are Ryan Seacrest, betel nuts and cyclotrons. Yeh, that’s the ticket!

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:28:42 +0000

There never was a race for space in the conventional sense. Russian Cosmonauts were well versed at subterfuge from the get go and learned to be economical with the truth. To my knowledge NO orbiting satellites, or the ISS travel in the Van Allen belts, particularly the South Atlantic Anomaly. The US has cozied up to the USSR before…uh remember WW2. To simulate a moon landing is not that difficult. Why is it that the Apollo apologists are always running scared? If the lunar landings happened plain and simple why are we having this conversation. Keep your fantasy.

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:37:57 +0000

#31 Nimby asked:

“…why do the moving photos look so ghostly? Sometimes, objects are damned near transparent! I realize they were shooting at a reduced frame rate but, still, our video technology was better than that.”

It’s a kind of short-term temporary burn-in. There is a technical term for it, but I can’t remember what it is. Remember, this was shot in direct sun, more direct than you get at the bottom of our atmosphere. When the astronaut crosses in front of the camera, it takes a few seconds for the image that had been in that spot since the camera was turned on to fade away.

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# 34 jccalhoun, quoting # 23 TruthBeKnown, said:

“I don’t believe these any more than I believe the bogus pictures of the so called “Kent State” killings. Same era same BS.”

“Wait, so are you saying the Kent State shootings didn’t happen? That’s a new one on me.”

I guess some people are just deniers. Me, I don’t believe there are any such things as China or Interstate Highways. All made up to scare us in our beds. Great Wall, indeed! Bah! Humbug!

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How could NASA lose the tapes? Easy — they never HAD them! These were recorded at the giant radio dish in Australia. At certain times of day, that was the only place on Earth that had the equipment and position to receive the signals from the Moon. This was not a NASA installation, but a completely separate scientific institute run by the Australians and the British. They recorded the transmisions and re-transmitted the data over the slow, noisy terrestrial communication channels of the time. The original tapes were put away to make room for the next project(s), and people transferred in and out, and eventually there wasn’t anybody there who knew where they were.

[Psst, buddy, this whole found tapes story may be a hoax.]

Oops! Well, it sure sounded plausible, didn’t it? Anyway, I do remember reading about the great help NASA received from the Australian antenna. There was even a movie made about it, I think. [...] Yes, “The Dish” with Sam Neill.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/

I really hope the whole story turns out to be true.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:40:17 +0000

Hey, Somebody_Else: Thanks for that link. Sure answered my questions about the poor video quality.

# 32 faxon said,”The Hasselblads are still laying on the moon. … Go get ‘em!”

Thanks. I might just do that. Soon as my Tardis gets out of the garage.

By: 888

888 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:48:10 +0000

They flew few times to the Moon, not only once.
For government it would be impossible to keep one faked moon landing under cover for 40 years, and you “hoax believers” want to tell us that US Govt was able to keep FEW hoaxed moon landings, all spanning few years, under covers?! LOL!

Soviet Russia would have trumpet the hoax on first page of “Pravda” for years, hahahaha!
Why do you think soviets have never “allied” with all the hoax-believers? Simply because they knew it were real moon landings not hoaxes, they were watching and observing it themselves.
Gimme a break and get a brains, hoax-morons.

By: MoreGruelPlease

MoreGruelPlease — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:00:09 +0000

40 years is plenty of time to reshoot the whole thing with better effects.

By: Somebody_Else

Somebody_Else — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:14:49 +0000

According to bad astronomy/Phil Plait this appears to be a hoax.

blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/28/lost-apollo-11-video-tapes-found/

By: Luc

Luc — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:35:49 +0000

Oh, come on. The question is extremely pertinent. I keep my own archive of thousands of foolish pictures I took everywhere as a hobby, and NASA loses footage of the most important event of human history ever caught on film? Hundreds of bogus tabloid stories begin with that “long lost, finally found” plot line, including “Elvis alive and well in some Polynesian island.” We’re morally obligated to raise the question.

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:22:10 +0000

Next week they will be out with some old Elvis footage.

By: 888

888 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:50:12 +0000

#35
If they haven’t lost it, you would have said “such a clear picture in 1969? Bullshit! It’s fake” anyways, wouldn’t you?

Yeah, you’re a hoax of homo sapiens too.

By: Hugh Ripper

Hugh Ripper — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:53:04 +0000

So NASA had great footage of one of the most important events in human history, and someone lost em. Just forgot where they were. Where’s the BS meter?

By: jccalhoun

jccalhoun — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:22:57 +0000

I don’t believe these any more than I believe the bogus pictures of the so called “Kent State” killings. Same era same BS.

Wait, so are you saying the Kent State shootings didn’t happen? That’s a new one on me.

By: Moon Unit

Moon Unit — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:56:18 +0000

Bad news though: I read about this search months (maybe a year or more) ago and the only machines in existence that could play these tapes were about to be scrapped!

By: faxon

faxon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:24:06 +0000

The Hasselblads are still laying on the moon. They were all left behind. I think somewhere between 3 and 7 of them are there, preserved in the vacuum of space. Might be drying out a bit, however. Go get ‘em!