Originally posted by 1questioner
reply to post by nv4711
Ummm...let's see if I can think of one beef... Oh yeah, how about losing or destroying all the original video footage shot on the moon by the Apollo
11 astronauts.
Either NASA is lying about that (Which is what I suspect.), or they are the most incompetent government agency in the history of mankind!
It's no mystery to me why people distrust NASA.
There is a third possibility you should open your mind to.
Your mind is full of delusional, malicious fantasies.
First, the astronauts never shot 'video footage' on the Moon. They had one still camera, and a 16-mm cine camera set up in the LM window, running
automatically -- whose images still exist and are fully available.
Second, no scenes from ANYWHERE are gone -- all televised video recorded during live transmission exists and is available.
SOME sequences of the live TV during the initial crew descent to the surface were recorded both at the receiving site in Australia, and then
converted live to US TV format and rebroadcast there immediately -- and recorded, permanently and openly.
The original signal was recorded, and folks there recall it looked sharper than the converted images. THOSE recordings came up missing. But these are
the same activities ALSO observed by the 16-mm cine camera, which showed them in even GREATER detail than either TV format.
The reality here differs greatly from common myths. Make this a 'teachanble moment' and dispel delusions that have polluted your mind.
None of this substracts from possible substantive criticisms of NASA.
Then, of course, there's THIS idiot:
Originally posted by Pimander
There are leaks and whistleblowers occasionally. Then there is a campaign to discredit the whistleblower or evidence. Then you all forget again.
Did you believe them when they claimed to "lose" the original Apollo 11 landing tapes? Would even an idiot do that? Would even an idiot believe they
were "lost"? Not this idiot.
edit on 10-11-2011 by JimOberg because: add this idiot
but I have always said NASA has three levels of info... L1 is the
public frills, the pretty pictures (even if they want to convince you the moon is black and white) L2 the scientific papers that you have to work hard
to get a copy of, and L3 the Top Secret stuff. 
) and no man to Mars
for at least 25 years. So they are allowed to go visit an asteroid 
