You've heard the tragedy of Doctor Who, where many of the pre-Pertwee episodes have been flatly lost because the BBC overwrote or plain threw out the only existing tapes. Episodes such as Marco Polo are lost, forever.
Here's a tragedy of similar content but even worse. It seems that the high quality tapes NASA used to record the first moon landing were overwritten with plain satellite Data.
"...the lost tapes mean that the world will probably never again see the original images beamed back to Earth by the lunar camera that is now resting on the moon's dusty Sea of Tranquility, right where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left it."
There are remastered versions of the broadcast material, but that was of far, far inferior quality to the original signal.
It would be as if I lost the .raw and large size versions of my favorite pictures, and only had the smallest of thumbnails left.
It's a damned shame.
Posted by Jvstin at July 16, 2009 8:06 AM