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Now You Can Buy NASA's Own Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage:
Got a player for 2-inch Quadruplex videotapes sitting around? You could view original NASA recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing in your living room.
Sotheby's is auctioning off three first-generation tapes of the historic touchdown as part of its July 20 auction of space exploration artifacts set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
The tapes run a total of 2 hours and 24 minutes and capture moments including Neil Armstrong declaring, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Also on the tapes are the "long-distance phone call" with President Richard Nixon and the planting of the American flag on the lunar surface.
[...] Gary George, an engineering student and NASA intern, purchased the tapes for $217.77 at a government surplus auction in 1976. It's estimated they'll sell for at least a $1 million at the Sotheby's event.
I was under the impression that the original tapes had been lost or recorded over. Does anyone else remember hearing that? Either way, this is a irreplaceable national treasure and I am astonished at seeing these up for auction. I am hopeful some philanthropist steps up, buys them, perhaps makes a personal copy, and then donates them to the Library of Congress.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 16 2019, @12:45PM
You yourself admit that this is as utopia not different than any other "reduction to principles" type of social organization.
You won't find "true" capitalism, communism or even socialism today in a society that balances itself over time without tearing itself apart.
In all "success cases" you will find a mixture in various (and varying) proportions between private wealth ownership and redistribution of wealth; with various degree of governance control over absolute private interests.
You have various social-democracies [wikipedia.org] in Europe and welfare states [wikipedia.org] around the globe.
You have Switzerland - with almost a pure bureaucratic government (not much more powerful than a bunch of public servants) and direct democracy with a strong role in governance.
You have Norway, in which the state runs a big business [wikipedia.org] and manages an $1 trillion pension fund [theguardian.com].
You have Australia, with a liberal system of welfare - called "a fair go" around here - (with an efficiency that quickly decays - too little control from government over time, leading to skyrocketing energy prices, failing aged care, financial institution abuses, etc).
You have Germany, with universal access health care, funded by a mixture of subsidies and private insurance [wikipedia.org] and free tertiary education [wikipedia.org].
Get this - the German welfare state was started [wikipedia.org] by a Prussian conservative in 1880, namely Otto von Bismark. Yeap, the guy that formed the German Empire [wikipedia.org], beat the crap out of neighboring countries in 3 short wars and also the guy who said "Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best"; he must've recognized that "true capitalism/communism" are not possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford