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Submission + - NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video (wired.com)

leetrout writes: "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemtry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that some one from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, which it was successful at. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately 2 hours of footage are located."
It's funny.  Laugh.

Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" 607

Bruce Perens writes "The World Health Organization will no longer refer to Virus A(H1N1) as 'Swine Flu,' citing ethnic reactions to 'swine,' for example among middle-eastern cultures who feel that swine are unclean. Or, is it because meat packers are concerned that people might stop eating pork in fear of the virus? WHO suggests that the public select a new name for the virus. I suggest that we all start calling it The Colbert Flu, after the comedian and fake pundit who asked his audience to stuff a NASA poll so that a Space Station module would be named after him. What can we do to make the name stick?"

Comment Re:What about "The Source" in Canada? (Score 1) 587

The Source by Circuit City Stores in Canada Not Included in US Circuit City Liquidation

They will be fine, InterTAN has found a way to continue business using that name.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/retail/source-circuit-city-stores-canada-included-circuit-city-liquidation-2010785338/

That's InterTAN's press release.

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