• tazeycrazy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The moon landing is easier to think of as faked now as we only get the highlights. Landing, flag and a few bounces. The actual moonwalk was a couple hours. They where setting up stuff, getting samples. Buzz was running around for some reason. People at the time had live evidence and where able to watch it at home.The only thing they didn’t have was chat distracting them and asking questions that had already been answered.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Although the researchers never found the telemetry tapes, they did discover the best visual quality NTSC videotapes as well as Super 8 movie film taken of a video monitor in Australia, showing the SSTV transmission before it was converted. These visual elements were processed in 2009, as part of a NASA-approved restoration project of the first moonwalk. At a 2009 news conference in Washington, D.C., the research team released its findings regarding the tapes’ disappearance. They also partially released newly enhanced footage obtained during the search. Lowry Digital completed the full moonwalk restoration project in late 2009.

      • mobyduck648@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        Not really, how many times have straightforward cock-ups happened with the government in your life? Large organisations fuck up constantly in mundane ways, history skews far more in favour of cock-ups than conspiracies.

        Also if the moon landings were fake, the Soviets absolutely would have known and revealed it to the world.

        • tazeycrazy@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          It smells of a “Dave was ment to look after that. All our other guys are doing important stuff. How can Dave mess up flipping the tape over and putting a new one on the deck. He would have to be an idiot.”

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          Cockups happen all the time, but not on mankinds most impressive achievement.

          I’m not saying the landings were fake. I’m suggesting the “live” telemetry was.