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It's ok, you can take the foil hat off. The broadcast from the moon was relayed live to TV stations across the world. The tapes they're talking about were just NASA's recordings of that direct broadcast. So there never was any opportunity for the tapes to be edited like that, because they didn't sit in the chain between the cameras on the moon and the broadcasts everyone saw on their TVs. Fortunately other news organisations (and probably governments) also taped the broadcast as well, hence we still have recordings available.

In fact, it was technologically impossible to record the entire live broadcast on a single tape because tapes with enough capacity didn't exist until many years later. Therefore a faked broadcast from tapes would have had visible transitions as they switched from tape to tape. These transitions would have been visible on the taped copies of the broadcast which the currently available recordings derive from.

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> Therefore a faked broadcast from tapes would have had visible transitions as they switched from tape to tape.

In other words you're saying that one should believe NASA landed on the moon, because broadcasting a fake recording would have been technologically too difficult for them?

I don't doubt that they landed on the moon, but I'm not quite convinced about that logic ;)

The fun thing about that argument is that if NASA _didn't_ land on the moon, then it falls apart!

"If NASA has the power to land on the moon, clearly they could've faked a broadcast."

"If you're saying they didn't land on the moon, though, how can you use that as technological proof to edit the broadcast?"

Especially suspicious when accounting for the sorts of technological developments that have taken off since then -- lots of sending packets to screens of various sizes, not very much human exploration. /s

Thanks! This is another great explanation of the vent that I can use against those who think moon landing was fake. In the past, I always told folks that landing occurred during Cold War and USSR was watching closely. If this was faked, Soviets would love nothing better than to discredit the US worldwide.

This video[0] on Youtube does a good job explaining the whole "video technology didn't exist" part that most people, myself included, don't realize.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU

Thanks. That is a great video.

I refuse to believe your logical explanations

Keep the faith, man!

Of course the taped copies we have now must have been recorded on multiple tapes. So are the transitions on them from switching tapes to record the broadcast, or are they actually the transitions from the original faked broadcast? If the original broadcast was faked and broadcast from tapes, you'd expect to see both types of transitions in the modern copies!

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