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I don't want to begin a flame, but I don't think Dr. Who is nearly as important as original tapes of the first men on the moon.
by GTP 11y ago
I don't want to begin a flame, but I don't think Dr. Who is nearly as important as original tapes of the first men on the moon.
- simonh 11y agoI was being tongue-in-cheek, but we do have recordings of the lunar broadcasts and, as I explained elsewhere, there's nothing particularly special about the NASA tapes. They were essentially just VCR-ing the live broadcast the same as everyone else, although I suppose their recordings may have been tapped into the video stream earlier in the chain so perhaps of higher quality.
- jacobush 11y agoNot perhaps. They were hi-def slow scan video. Wikipedia: "When the Apollo TV camera radioed its images, the ground stations received its raw unconverted SSTV signal and split it into two branches. One signal branch was sent unprocessed to a fourteen-track analog data tape recorder where it was recorded onto fourteen-inch diameter reels of one-inch-wide analog magnetic data tapes at 3.04 meters per second."
- simonh 11y agoI wonder if anyone other than NASA was picking up the direct broadcast from the Moon? I've got to imagine the Russians at least would be doing that.
- clockworkelf 11y agoThere is no way that was a live broadcast from the moon because an analysis was done on the rate of speed sand would fall in the supposed live broadcast. The rate indicates Earth gravity: Gravity Analysis of Falling Sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tud7xlSI9fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tud7xlSI9fo
- jacobushi 11y agoPossibly but did they have state of the art 3-meters-a-second tape drives to store the signal on?
- simonh 11y agoGood point.