Tim Attwood schrieb:
>>  And what makes you think they were faked? Do you have any evidence?
>> (Something better than the old tired "there are no stars" style 
>> "evidence".)
> 
> The lack of testable evidence is one of the reasons I think there
> is some deception going on. It's my estimation that the people at
> NASA and JPL aren't really dumb enough to have misplaced the
> records of their biggest achievement.

NASA is a bureaucracy after all. Stuff like that does happen in a 
bureaucracy.

Someone head guy decided that they needed more telemetry tapes, but hey 
- the archives are full of old telemetry tapes nobody has ever bothered 
to look at ever since. I mean, who would care about the telemetry tapes 
of some obscure spacecraft from 30, 40, maybe 50 years ago?

Head guy gives orders to some intermediate guy #1, "go ahead and recycle 
some of those old telemetry tapes from the archive nobody will miss".

Intermediate guy #1 gives orders to some intermediate guy #2, "recycle 
some of those old telemetry tapes from the archive; nobody will miss them".

...

Intermediate guy #N gives oders to some poor bloke working in the 
archives, "find some old telemetry tapes and prepare them for recycling".

That poor bloke, maybe 25 years of age, finds the Apollo telemetry 
tapes, and /does/ prepare them for recycling. After all, who would still 
care about that endless bulk of biomed and technical sensor data being 
streamed 24/7 to the earth? The glitches have been analyzed decades ago 
already, and nobody will ever bother about the rest.

How should that poor bloke, having started his work at NASA decades 
after the events, happen to know enough details about the Apollo mission 
to know that these very telemetry data reels also contained the original 
video footage from up there?


Don't assume bad intent where incompetence will do. And don't assume 
incompetence in individuals where flaws in a system will suit just as well.

Post a reply to this message