Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA

["Watsky, Lance" <lwatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all, 

In Henry Wilhelm's, monumental book, "The Permanence and Care of Color
Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives,
Slides, and Motion Pictures", which now is available on-line, see:
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/book_toc.html, it explains that the
films the astronauts shot during the mission were part of a major film
preservation project. Nasa not only made color separations of the films
but also multiple copies. The originals were stored at NASA headquarters
in Houston, Texas, a second copy was stored in a NASA facility in
Houston, and a third copy was stored in White Sands, New Mexico. 

The question that really needs to be asked is: Did these original films
contain the same material that was transmitted to the receiving
stations?

Regards,
Lance Watsky
Program Coordinator
UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies
www.mias.ucla.edu
310.206.4966
FAX 310.825.3383




  



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA

--- Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey, if the president has his way with the national treasure, we will 
> be blowing large clumps of money in the near future to go back for ...

> what???

Well Tom, there's more to exploring space than taking information from
other places and relaying it back here.
This planet  isn't going to last forever.  Some time in the next couple
100,000 years there's going to be another cataclysmic meteor impact of
the type that wiped out the dinosaurs, and even if we're able to divert
that, the Sun is eventually going to expand and swallow up the Earth.

So mankind's destiny must be to move out from the Earth, first to nearby
places like the Moon and Mars, and eventually to other solar systems.
It will take thousands of years.  We've wasted 30.  Why waste more?
It's going to be a long, slow process, but it needs to begin eventually,
and I'm selfish enough to want to live to see permanant bases on the
Moon, and people on Mars, so sue me.  :-)

Besides, as archivists, we'll need to have found somewhere safe to put
our stuff before the Sun goes nova.


David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx

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