Heh, government agencies
16 years ago
General
Heard about this the other day, still amuses me.
So, you know that hugely momentous occasion 40 years ago that was broadcast on pretty much every TV in the nation? That thing where one of the most famous quotes in history came from? That first time we hurled a big chunk of metal with people strapped in up to a lifeless rock and watched them say "One small step for man"?
Yeah. NASA actually ERASED the original video recordings of all that.
Go figure huh? Not that essentially exact duplicates don't exist in dozens of news archives, but still. Well that's a government agency for you I suppose.
So, you know that hugely momentous occasion 40 years ago that was broadcast on pretty much every TV in the nation? That thing where one of the most famous quotes in history came from? That first time we hurled a big chunk of metal with people strapped in up to a lifeless rock and watched them say "One small step for man"?
Yeah. NASA actually ERASED the original video recordings of all that.
Go figure huh? Not that essentially exact duplicates don't exist in dozens of news archives, but still. Well that's a government agency for you I suppose.
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Next, in some of the movies you can see the American flag moving as if in a breeze. In fact its just our friend, inertia, that's responsible. In a vacuum things can still move and sway like they were being moved from wind or breeze. When the astronauts planted the flag the cloth wanted to stay in motion because they had moved it when they planted it, which is commonly called inertia: Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. So small movements in a vacuum carry on longer because the outside force of air resistance is absent allowing small sways and shifts in the cloth to carry on for long periods which some think were signs of a breeze.
Finally, some say that the astronauts movements on camera can be easily duplicated with use of suspension wires and such. Response, not so much. Reason: GRAVITY. We have a whole lot more gravity here than the moon does. The astronauts movements could not be duplicated on Earth because the person would fall too fast, even with the use of wires and such.
Rebuttal?
As far as the moon landings, I'd be willing to bet my life savings on the fact that we have been there.