NASA goes to Hollywood for footage of Moon landing

[Draco]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_sc/us_sci_moon_video

NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.

In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said Thursday that it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could reuse the videotape.

But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue.

The studio wizards who restored "Casablanca" are digitally sharpening and cleaning up the ghostly, grainy footage of the moon landing, making it even better than what TV viewers saw on July 20, 1969. They are doing it by working from four copies that NASA scrounged from around the world.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

Twenty-five percent of respondents to a survey in the British magazine Engineering & Technology said they do not believe humans landed on the moon. A handful of Web sites and blogs circulate suspicions about NASA's "hoax."

 

[julius]

You'd think that arguably one of the top 5 events of the 20th century would've been kept separate from everything else, and not re-used.

 

[Da_O]

People who believed we went to the moon should be embarrassed for themselves.

People who reject the obvious and irrefutable evidence of the moon landing being fake are vanilla flavored sheeple who will believe anything people tell them. It's people like them that carried out the Holocaust because they don't have brains, but rather automatic switching stations designed to service whichever master is currently in power.

I, on the other hand, collect comic books, have a level 40 wizard character in WOW, and have an IQ of 157 (verified by an online IQ test). I am far above the zombie like behavior of the sheeple and can ACTUALLY THINK FOR MYSELF. I pity the people who believe the official story. I call them "coincidence nuts".

Here are a couple of questions for the coincidence nuts:

1. Why was the flag fluttering in a windless environment?

2. WHY WERE THERE SHADOWS on the moon? Obviously there was no sun, so how could there be shadows?

3. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, yet someone else was able to take his picture? Ooops!

4. Do you think IN SPACE there might be STARS? Yes? Oh wait.....nope. According to the videos in questions stars don't exist in outer space. Laughable.

5. Neil Armstrong actually admitted to a reported the whole thing was faked, then retracted his story. Why? Because someone got to him, and because the government is controlling all electronic communications (that's why google has no record of it).

Why don't you sheeple address the arguments?

 

[Minstrel]

You'd think that arguably one of the top 5 events of the 20th century would've been kept separate from everything else, and not re-used.

There was a very special episode of I Dream of Jeannie on that night that they needed the tape for.

 

[Minstrel]

1. Why was the flag fluttering in a windless environment?

US flags always flutter, they don't need wind. Why do you hate the United States?

 

[Denny Crane]

They got the important stuff - The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090716-1969-moon-landing-video.html

The camera that captured Armstrongs first steps was mounted on a swinging door on the lunar module.

 

[julius]

1. Why was the flag fluttering in a windless environment?

I don't remember what show it was (might have been mythbusters), but in a vacuum, a flag will move. Momentum doesn't need gravity.

2. WHY WERE THERE SHADOWS on the moon? Obviously there was no sun, so how could there be shadows?

There's no sun out there?

3. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, yet someone else was able to take his picture? Ooops!

magic.

4. Do you think IN SPACE there might be STARS? Yes? Oh wait.....nope. According to the videos in questions stars don't exist in outer space. Laughable.

I don't remember the reason, but I think it was something how it's the same reason why we don't see stars during the day.

5. Neil Armstrong actually admitted to a reported the whole thing was faked, then retracted his story. Why? Because someone got to him, and because the government is controlling all electronic communications (that's why google has no record of it).

Why don't you sheeple address the arguments?

I love posts that make unsure if someone is being sarcastic or not.

 

[Denny Crane]

The astronauts took pictures of brightly lit, shiny white objects. In these conditions, cameras need a fast exposure time and small aperture, making it impossible to capture faint background objects. Guardian photographer Graeme Robertson says: "They would have used a really fast shutter speed so everything in the background would just be black."

 

[Minstrel]

2. WHY WERE THERE SHADOWS on the moon? Obviously there was no sun, so how could there be shadows?

....

4. Do you think IN SPACE there might be STARS? Yes? Oh wait.....nope. According to the videos in questions stars don't exist in outer space. Laughable.

I know you're kidding, but these two still strike me as amusing in combination. There are obviously stars, but obviously no sun.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I don't think he is kidding...

 

[Erroneous Subterfuge]

Anyone who thinks we didn't land on the moon is a complete moron.

 

[bodyman5001]

Anyone who thinks we didn't land on the moon is a complete moron.

Anyone who wasn't there and believes either for certain is a bigger moron.

 

[bodyman5001]

I never met my great grandfather and I can't even be certain that he existed........I bet he did though.

 

[Денг Гордон]

I did a video on the moon landing for my freshman US History class back in high school. I think it might still be bouncing around our home network somewhere. It has moon landing footage in it. NASA can buy the video from me.

 

[julius]

Does anyone know how they got the footage here?

[video=youtube;g_sWmD6NvMY] (where you can see it coming 3:38 esp)

 

[julius]

I think the footage I was asking about was simulated by CBS.

 

[Erroneous Subterfuge]

Anyone who wasn't there and believes either for certain is a bigger moron.

There are too many examples that would prove your statement categorically wrong that I won't even get into it. One does not need to be somewhere for it to have happened. Next you'll tell me the holocaust didn't happen, I mean I wasn't there, how the fuck would I know?

Have fun being a complete moron.

 

[bodyman5001]

There are too many examples that would prove your statement categorically wrong that I won't even get into it. One does not need to be somewhere for it to have happened. Next you'll tell me the holocaust didn't happen, I mean I wasn't there, how the fuck would I know?

Have fun being a complete moron.

I would rather you did get into it. It would make it much more fun for me.

I would like just one example that proves the moon landing to be real beyond any doubt, just one.

I believe that the holocaust happened but don't understand the idea that people are insane or stupid or that it should be illegal to think that it didn't.

I watched an X Men movie a year or two ago where the old guy playing Magneto crushed cars with his powers from a distance. Looked pretty damned real to me. Guess that happened too.

Well, I guess I shouldn't have said the old guy playing Magneto as he really looked like Magneto and said he was in the movie so I should just call him Magneto.


I will mix a metaphor and ask this. If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to see it or here it did it really happen?

And...if I go see the tree laying on the ground does that PROVE that it fell?

 

[Erroneous Subterfuge]

I would rather you did get into it. It would make it much more fun for me.

I would like just one example that proves the moon landing to be real beyond any doubt, just one.

I believe that the holocaust happened but don't understand the idea that people are insane or stupid or that it should be illegal to think that it didn't.

I watched an X Men movie a year or two ago where the old guy playing Magneto crushed cars with his powers from a distance. Looked pretty damned real to me. Guess that happened too.
Well, I guess I shouldn't have said the old guy playing Magneto as he really looked like Magneto and said he was in the movie so I should just call him Magneto.


I will mix a metaphor and ask this. If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to see it or here it did it really happen?

And...if I go see the tree laying on the ground does that PROVE that it fell?

Well I can see the type of person I'm dealing with... Jesus, dude. Anyone who doesn't think the holocaust happened are insane or stupid or both, and if you can't understand why on your own, then I'm certaintly not going to waste my time explaining it to you. And then to use a Hollywood superhero movie as an example is just...

I did a thesis on the moon landing in college, researched it an entire semester. I know with certainty and I don't have the time or inclination to debate it over the internet with someone who just wrote what you did.

I'm out.

 

[bodyman5001]

Well I can see the type of person I'm dealing with... Jesus, dude. Anyone who doesn't think the holocaust happened IS insane or stupid or both, and if you can't understand why on your own, then I'm certaintly not going to waste my time explaining it to you. And then to use a Hollywood superhero movie as an example is just...

I did a thesis on the moon landing in college, researched it an entire semester. I know with certainty and I don't have the time or inclination to debate it over the internet with someone who just wrote what you did.

I'm out.

College good
Naturally intelligent bad

I now know the type of person you are as well.

 

[bodyman5001]

[QUOTE. And then to use a Hollywood superhero movie as an example is just...
[/QUOTE]


Making a clear example of why you can't even trust what you see on tv these days.

 

[noknobs]

I would rather you did get into it. It would make it much more fun for me.

I would like just one example that proves the moon landing to be real beyond any doubt, just one.

I believe that the holocaust happened but don't understand the idea that people are insane or stupid or that it should be illegal to think that it didn't.

I watched an X Men movie a year or two ago where the old guy playing Magneto crushed cars with his powers from a distance. Looked pretty damned real to me. Guess that happened too.

Well, I guess I shouldn't have said the old guy playing Magneto as he really looked like Magneto and said he was in the movie so I should just call him Magneto.


I will mix a metaphor and ask this. If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to see it or here it did it really happen?

And...if I go see the tree laying on the ground does that PROVE that it fell?

Gotta agree with Erroneous -- that's one of the dumbest posts from top to bottom I've ever read, on so many levels.

College good
Naturally intelligent bad

In keeping with the spirit of this thread -- Anyone who corrects other peoples grammar on a Blazers messageboard and acts like it reflects intelligence, one way or the other, is a complete moron.

 

[bodyman5001]

Gotta agree with Erroneous -- that's one of the dumbest posts from top to bottom I've ever read, on so many levels.



In keeping with the spirit of this thread -- Anyone who corrects other peoples grammar on a Blazers messageboard and acts like it reflects intelligence, one way or the other, is a complete moron.

I like how neither of you understand what I was trying to say with my OBVIOUSLY silly post. I can't imagine what either of you would have learned from it were you able to detect sarcasm.

 

[bodyman5001]

Oh hell, I will just be as precise as I can.

My point was that you cannot say with complete certainty that the moon landing happened. I will even say that there is a remote possibility that the people on the mission could have even been tricked into thinking they were on the moon when they were not. It is not OUTSIDE the realm of possibility.

That doesn't make it likely or even slightly likely.

It would be possible to frame someone for murder where there is no body found. The supposed victim could just disappear. People have been convicted of murder where no body is found. The jury could believe with all of their hearts that the person they convicted was guilty.

IF I told someone on the jury that I didn't think the person was guilty and that juror called me a moron, what would that juror say when the supposed victim showed up alive?

What is going to happen years from now when the internet is flooded with fake stories and photoshopped pictures or faked videos? Are people going to call others idiots when they don't buy some story?


Just for further clarification.....I believe that man landed on the moon. I believe that Hitler killed six million jews. I believe that my great grandfather was a real man who impregnated my great grandmother.

 

[noknobs]

Anyone who wasn't there and believes either for certain is a bigger moron.

I will even say that there is a remote possibility that the people on the mission could have even been tricked into thinking they were on the moon when they were not. It is not OUTSIDE the realm of possibility.

So now even those who were there don't know for certain if it was a fake?

Under your definition of "certainty", we technically may not even be alive. Maybe we're in the matrix! Unless we're God we don't know anything for certain! You can talk about fallen trees in the forrest, murder victims, faking pictures in 2009 and blah blah blah blah. But the fact is, with something like the holocaust or the moon landing, there is such a gigantic amount of evidence that points to it happening, and nothing but unsubstantiated speculation that it didn't happen, that the amount of doubt there is about the subject is for all intensive purposes, zero. Therefore we can use the word certainty.

 

[Da_O]

I don't remember what show it was (might have been mythbusters), but in a vacuum, a flag will move. Momentum doesn't need gravity.

You'd be surprised what a billion-dollar+ check can do to someone's scientific integrity.

Oh wait, the peer-review process of science always works right? WRONG!

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/fish.html

Yes, mythbusters is a perfect example of people practicing proper science, with controls, etc...

Oh wait.....

Someone needs to listen to pure truth, like Alex Jones.

 

[Da_O]

I don't think he is kidding...

If you are happy being a sheeple ignorant to the pure truth, that is your business. But don't expect me or REAL AMERICANS to play along.

I can refute all the arguments of the coincidence nuts with one hand, while using the other hand to raid a village of Billiborks in WOW.

Your brains would explode at that level of cognitive complexity.

 

[BrianFromWA]

So I'm a bit confused.

There's tape of NASA locking the astronauts in the space capsule. There's tape of the blast-off and rocket going into space. There's telemetry following them to the moon. If they never went there, how did the 3 guys get back to give interviews? Are you saying that they orbited the moon, but never landed there?

 

[Rodolfo]

The mirror on the moon should end this!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/21/mcdonald-observatory-space-laser-funding