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A search has begun in Washington to locate the original film footage of man's first steps on the Moon nearly 40 years ago.
Many of those involved in the archiving of the 13,000 tapes have moved on or retired. James Westhead reports from Washington.
This gives support to those who believe the whole thing was faked; it was at the time of the Soviet Union, and finding the tapes could show evidence that it was indeed faked; or more realisitcally prove them wrong. It may be more valuable symbolically and historically to find the tapes, than for scientific purpouses. All that they have at the moment is the fuzzy TV quality tapes, and there is HD quality material out there... apparently.
i saw that on BBC last week. quite strange how NASA could've misplaced so many tapes on such a historic event. we'll just have to wait to see if they can find them
USA should take an example by the german order, we have archives that contain every shit, especially the stasi archive, it was once (in times of the DDR) the biggest Secret service ever with some hundred thousand informants...
Hasn't been long, I watched a documentary on this on Arte (French/German TV channel). They had lots of interviews with both sceptics and NASA 'sure we went' guys. Interestingly, even one of the guys who was advocating the view that the US went to the moon, in the end, said: "Well, once OWL is ready, we shall see". OWL is the "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope" planned by the ESO in Chile http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/. So, unfortunately, it will still take some time (2016-2017) but then you should be able to actually see the US flag on the moon, as well as other remainders of the Apollo missions.
I wonder though, if existing telescope, like the VLT ones (very large ones) aren't sufficient for that already ?
That was one of the things I was thinking; the American flasg in the sea of tranquility should be there... I'm not outrageously sceptic, but these things, convenient lost tapes dont half make you wander
That was one of the things I was thinking; the American flasg in the sea of tranquility should be there... I'm not outrageously sceptic, but these things, convenient lost tapes dont half make you wander
Yeah... if the flag isn't up there, I wonder what kind of excuse they'll come up with. "It was blown away" or "the Russians were there too and stole it" or "it was eaten by some, hitherto unknown, lunar sand worm" or even just "I want to believe"
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