Tim Dodd

Sorry, not even CNC machines.

You can't find, you know, any of the parts that were there to build any of the supply chain that they would get light bulbs from, that would get seatbelts from, that they'd get steering.

You know, all of that stuff is shut down.

In the same way that you can't rebuild the Saturn V rocket because all of the suppliers for all these little parts and these little things have all either been bought up by someone else, changed, used modern manufacturing techniques.

You'd be starting from scratch if you were to do it again that same way.

And so I understand the frustration of we did this thing 54 years ago and we lost that ability to do it.

But we also spent $300 billion in today's money to get us there.

And the public, like I said, we had three other rockets and hardware built and the crew to do so.

And we just said, eh, not worth it.

That's what I'm frustrated with.

So steel manning the argument, that resonates with me very hardcore because I also agree.

Now, what about all the data being erased?

That one is so misconstrued.

Is it?

Oh, yeah.

The only data that was lost ever, period, from anything is the original transmission of Apollo 11.

As soon as it was downlinked, it was split into two halves.

And so the first half got rerecorded onto 25, I think 25 centimeter or 36 centimeter long, like big data tapes, right?

They're these old school magnetic tapes.

I think they're 25 millimeter thick and they're basically like giant cassette tapes, reel to reel.