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It's actually quite simple in practice. Relaying voice, video and data can be made to appear as if it is coming from astronauts on the moon but there was no way for you -- and/or all those smart people physically located on earth -- to verify any of it (as far as actual location of the transmissions). Also: an unmanned probe can replicate coordinates while others can mimic the rest from anywhere. All it requires is a very small handful of individuals -- including the astronauts -- to be involved.
And in this current era of deepfakes and AI-generated content (along with NASA's prominent use of CGI, for years now), even if a moon landing -- or a traversing of the Van Allen Belts, etc -- actually does occur in the near or distant future, it will be scrutinized (astutely or not) by those that will claim fakery based on current and past manipulations of images, data, and presentations of reality, or otherwise, doubted simply because we now live in a timeframe when any moving or still image can appear almost as real as "reality" -- and such fakery is only getting better at fakery/mimicry.
(An ideal time to re-launch the Moon program, eh?)
(The mere fact that all original Apollo-era content -- telemetry data, original footage, etc. -- has all been "lost"/"erased" should be a red flag for anyone that values discernment. This topic has been raised numerous times already, and discussed, in prior threads here.
No way to verify anything from the Apollo missions. Most unfortunate, eh? It's absurd to believe for an instant there wouldn't be multiple copies of this data saved/stored across multiple disparate locations. The most monumental human achievement -- reportedly -- and we are to believe all original Apollo data simply got "lost"/"erased" with no available backups stored anywhere. Even small-sized companies have data retention policies that require the retention/preservation of data offsite for business continuity/redundancy purposes. Yet NASA just "lost"/"inadvertently erased" the data. Laughable)
As it turns out, however, NASA doesn’t actually have all of that Moonwalking footage anymore. Truth be told, they don’t have any of it. According to the agency, all the tapes were lost back in the late 1970s. All 700 cartons of them. As Reuters reported on August 15, 2006, “The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’ … Armstrong’s famous moonwalk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaluoma said. ‘We haven’t seen them for quite a while. We’ve been looking for over a year, and they haven’t turned up,’ Hautaluoma said … In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing.”
Given that these tapes allegedly documented an unprecedented and unduplicated historical event, one that is said to be the greatest technological achievement of the twentieth century, how in the world would it be possible to, uhmm, ‘lose’ 700 cartons of them? Would not an irreplaceable national treasure such as that be very carefully inventoried and locked away in a secure film vault? And would not copies have been made, and would not those copies also be securely tucked away somewhere? Come to think of it, would not multiple copies have been made for study by the scientific and academic communities?
Had NASA claimed that a few tapes, or even a few cartons of tapes, had been misplaced, then maybe we could give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps some careless NASA employee, for example, absent-mindedly taped a Super Bowl game over one of them. Or maybe some home porn. But does it really seem at all credible to claim that the entire collection of tapes has gone missing – all 700 cartons of them, the entire film record of the alleged Moon landings? In what alternative reality would that happen ‘accidentally’?
Some of you are probably thinking that everyone has already seen the footage anyway, when it was allegedly broadcast live back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, or on NASA’s website, or on YouTube, or on numerous television documentaries. But you would be mistaken. The truth is that the original footage has never been aired, anytime or anywhere – and now, since the tapes seem to have conveniently gone missing, it quite obviously never will be.
The fact that the tapes are missing (and according to NASA, have been for over three decades), amazingly enough, was not even the most compelling information that the Reuters article had to offer. Also to be found was an explanation of how the alleged Moonwalk tapes that we all know and love were created: “Because NASA’s equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast.”
So what we saw then, and what we have seen in all the footage ever released by NASA since then, were not in fact live transmissions. To the contrary, it was footage shot off a television monitor, and a tiny black-and-white monitor at that. That monitor may have been running live footage, I suppose, but it seems far more likely that it was running taped footage. NASA of course has never explained why, even if it were true that the original broadcasts had to be ‘re-shot,’ they never subsequently released any of the actual ‘live’ footage. But I guess that’s a moot point now, what with the tapes having gone missing.
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie-1/For those that subscribe to whatever NASA reports, this update's for you:
July 16, 2009
An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.
"We're all saddened that they're not there. We all wish we had 20-20 hindsight," says Dick Nafzger, a TV specialist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who helped lead the search team.
"I don't think anyone in the NASA organization did anything wrong," Nafzger says. "I think it slipped through the cracks, and nobody's happy about it."
NASA has, however, offered up a consolation prize for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission — the agency has taken the best available broadcast television footage and contracted with a digital restoration firm to enhance it, so that the public can see the first moonwalk in more detail than ever before.
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/16/10663706 ... o-11-tapes
