Houston, our tapes have gone missing

Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

So, why didn't they just record the moonwalk video onto DVD's as the
signal came down from the moon?

;-)


Rusty

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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

So, why didn't they just record the moonwalk video onto DVD's as the
signal came down from the moon?


Trademark dispute with Michael Jackson over the term moonwalk.


;-)


Rusty

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"Rusty" wrote in message
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

So, why didn't they just record the moonwalk video onto DVD's as the
signal came down from the moon?


Trademark dispute with Michael Jackson over the term moonwalk.




Do you know why Gordon Cooper never made it to the moon?

Deke caught him moonwalking on earth once too often.

Rusty

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:00:10 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

So, why didn't they just record the moonwalk video onto DVD's as the
signal came down from the moon?


Trademark dispute with Michael Jackson over the term moonwalk.

....Nah, there was a Broadcast Flag error, so the TiVo didn't record
it.

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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

Derek will say, "I see nothing new there, Jim".

From the article cited this time (the Independent):
"They insist it is wrong to characterise the tapes as "missing".
"They're not missing," Mr Lebar said, "we just haven't found them"

/dps

"snidely" wrote:
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

Derek will say, "I see nothing new there, Jim".

Why should I? a) it's not Jim posting is and b) Jonathan isn't
claiming it's new - in fact he openly states his belief in the
opposite.

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"snidely" wrote:
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1218885.ece

Derek will say, "I see nothing new there, Jim".

Why should I? a) it's not Jim posting is and b) Jonathan isn't
claiming it's new - in fact he openly states his belief in the
opposite.

Let's keep this good humoured :-)
There's more on the story today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,,1844878,00.html
It'll be really sad if they find the tapes and discover they can't play
them.
There's some confusion or just plain mistakes in the Guardian article -
it writes about "a camera mounted on top of the Eagle lunar lander" and
"original film" when the recording was presumably on tape.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:08:32 GMT, Jonathan Silverlight
wrote:

Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway

Now there are 13,000 tapes missing.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebu...ap2952087.html
Since each mission was on the order of 200 hours, 11 Apollo missions,
approximately 2200 hours. They said one tape per 15 minutes, so the
entire telemetry should be no more than 9,000 tapes, right?

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Jud McCranie wrote:

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:08:32 GMT, Jonathan Silverlight
wrote:


Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway


Now there are 13,000 tapes missing.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebu...ap2952087.html
Since each mission was on the order of 200 hours, 11 Apollo missions,
approximately 2200 hours. They said one tape per 15 minutes, so the
entire telemetry should be no more than 9,000 tapes, right?


They probably had a fair amount of overlap. They'd have at least two
recorders, and you'd start a new tape a minute or 2 before the old tape
runs out. To avoid gaps in coverage.

There are people in the record industry experienced in rescuing
recordings on old master tapes (to get a low noise version of a hit song
for re-release on CD).