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On 2006-12-06 13:36:01 -0600, grappletech <noone@removenowhere.biz> said:

> NASA recently announced that they had "lost" the film footage from the 
> Apollo moon missions, and no high quality copies were ever made of it.  
> The Director of NASA said: "misplacing these films isn't anyone's 
> fault; it's just something that happens in large organizations."  Yeah 
> right!  The sheer incompetence of NASA is what caused it.  Those films 
> represented the crowning achievement of NASA and perhaps of mankind, 
> tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, etc., and NASA misplaces them?!?! 
>  They should have been locked in a safe behind a locked cage.  Only a 
> federal agency could be that fucking stupid to lose the Moon films.  
> And why weren't they ever covnerted to high quality (lossless) digital? 
>  I suppose they were misplaced before high quality digital video 
> existed.  So all we have is grainy videotaped images taken from the 
> original broadcasts.
> 

Which are especially rare since the Apollo lunar missions were before 
consumers had VCRs.

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