Original moon landing film lost

London Daily Telegraph via The Washington Times ^ | August 14, 2006 | Robert Colvile

[Publius6961]

I would like to supplement your advice with a reality check.
Ordinary CDs and DVDs have only a theoretical shelf life. The acual longevity is still unknown.

Commercial transfers will in all probability use the cheapest blanks which can be found in bulk and are reasonably reliable. A bad strategy. If longevity is the goal, archival blanks are available from a few sources. The most well-known is

ARCHIVAL BLANKS

The ability to make the copies yourself also is now of modest cost, and I would do it myself if there is a lot of material to back up. DVD recorders are now very easy to operate and reasonable in price.

[CindyDawg]

I was serious about asking why some believe it was a fake and what others see to indicate that it really happened. It isn't something that keeps me up worrying at night though.

[Publius6961]

Do you even know what a corner reflector array is?
If lasers can be repeatedly bounced back from it (Measuring distance exquisitely) it must have gotten there somehow. And the locations are precisely known.

What else do you need to know?

[from occupied ga]

Well, there's not much we can do except go back to the moon and do it all over again

According to Sheila Jackson Lee (Black Democrat from Texas) We landed on Mars, not the moon. But I guess profound ignorance is an advantage in Kongress

[CindyDawg]

Dang. You type almost as bad as I do:') The world isn't flat but it isn't exactly round either. How did we find this out? I'm sure there were people that told the curious , with questions to"knock it off", and "I suppose you think the world is round". You are most likely right, (not that I don't think our government is not capable of doing something like this). Why get defensive though? Time and continued exploration will tell.

[CindyDawg]

:')

[CindyDawg]

Thank you.

[battlegearboat]

I was 19 when the moon landing went down.

At the time, I was on my LCM boat on the Long Tau River in South Vietnam and I was the last person on Earth to learn of the landing. I didn't even know that the mission was underway. I was in the heart of darkness.

[andy58-in-nh]

Wow! That is precisely the image I had in mind when I read this story: the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the Ark of the Covenant is shipped to a massive government warehouse to take its place anonymously amongst a million other crates marked "Top Secret".

[BJungNan]

Thanks, I'll do that.

[Inyo-Mono]

NASA can borrow my copy of the Castle Films 8mm film "The Moon Landing that I bought in 1970. It is in color too!

[1Old Pro]

One would think that they would keep a small staff to didgitized these films and get them on DVD's or some other formats.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"I was serious about asking why some believe it was a fake and what others see to indicate that it really happened."

Same way I know WWII happened.

[spinestein]

If you still insist on believing that Neil Armstrong has only given one interview since Apollo, despite abundant evidence that he has given dozens of interviews PER YEAR, EVERY YEAR since his moon landing, then it's impossible to convince you of anything using logic.

This is from an interview he gave in 2001:


ARMSTRONG: We could have tried to land there, and we might have gotten away with it. It was a fairly steep slope and it was covered with very big rocks, and it just wasn't a good place to go. You know, if I'd run out of fuel, why, I would have put down right there, but if I had any choice of a
more promising spot, I was going to take it. There were some attractive areas far more level, far less occupied by boulders and things, a half mile ahead or so, so that's where I went. I wanted to make it as easy for myself as I could on that first—there's a lot of concern about coming close to running out of fuel, and I was very cognizant of that. But I did know that if I could have my speed stabilized and attitude stabilized, I could fall from a fairly good height, perhaps maybe forty feet or more in the low lunar gravity, the gear would absorb that much fall. So I was perhaps probably less concerned about it than a lot of people watching down here on Earth. That's not to say I wasn't thinking about it, though, because I certainly was, but I thought it was important to try to get it down smoothly on the first try. We didn't know how that landing was actually going to go until that point. So I wanted to make it as gentle as I could.

BRINKLEY: Was there anything about your Moon walk and collecting of rocks and the like that surprised you at that time when you were on the Moon, like, "I did not expect to encounter this," or, "I did not expect it to look like this"? Or included in that, the view of the rest of space from the Moon must have been quite an awesome thing to experience.

ARMSTRONG: I was surprised by a number of things, and I'm not sure—I can't recall them all now. I was surprised by the apparent closeness of the horizon. I was surprised by the trajectory of dust that you kicked up with your boot, and I was surprised that even though logic would have told me
that there shouldn't be any, there was no dust when you kicked. You never had a cloud of dust there. That's a product of having an atmosphere, and when you don't have an atmosphere, you don't have any clouds of dust.
I was absolutely dumbfounded when I shut the rocket engine off and the particles that were going out radially from the bottom of the engine fell all the way out over the horizon, and when I shut the engine off, they just raced out over the horizon and instantaneously disappeared, you know, just like it had been shut off for a week. That was remarkable. I'd never seen that. I'd never seen anything like that. And logic says, yes, that's the way it ought to be there, but I hadn't thought about it and I was surprised.


19 September 2001 83
Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Neil A. Armstrong



He must be lying (along with thousands of other people) if you believe the moon landings were hoaxes.

[krb]

It also could lay to rest the conspiracy theory that the landings were faked on a Hollywood soundstage.

Uh, not if it's "lost." :-)

[taxesareforever]

The Soviets landed two rovers on the moon, called Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2, on the Luna 17 and Luna 21 missions in 1970 and 1973, respectively. These rovers were equipped with small retroreflector arrays each consisting of 14 corner cubes of triangular configuration (not cut into a circle—imagine slicing off the corner of a cube with a knife).

This from your source. So what makes you believe we also couldn't have put them on the moon without the help of astronauts? The Russians didn't need people on the moon to install theirs.

[taxesareforever]

Read my post #76 and reply to that.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If the moon landings were fake, no astronauts would have been killed.

[taxesareforever]

Wow! Awesome interview! NOT! And if you want to debate the issue of "his first interview ever", take it up with CBS 60 minutes. They said it.

[Ready4Freddy]

LOL, but you see, there were only 2 people in the "control room", and they replicated them with mirrors! Or was it photoshop...? Doesn't matter, you can tell they're all the same, they all look like dorks w/ slide rules!

Anyone who thinks that the moon landings were a hoax needs to explain how the literally thousands of people ...