Tim Dodd

So they stored it in tapes.

They just took these tapes, they put them in pallets, they threw them in some room where it's relatively inconsequential, right?

Just like, oh, whatever, they're magnetic tapes.

And it got recorded over.

Eventually, in I think the 70s or 80s, they had a data storage shortage of these types of magnetic tapes.

And I want to be clear that only the backup data tapes

were the things that were lost.

There was still film, like 16 millimeter film recovered, you know, that the astronauts shot with them.

Like the cameras they bought personally to shoot film.

Yep.

All that raw film is still there.

100%.

Like people act like, oh, all we have is this recording of the screen and they threw away all the original tapes.

Like, no, this was the... They have...

They didn't think they would ever have a world where they even needed these tapes because they had everything.

They had the broadcast.

It's not like the broadcast went cold and they lost signal.

They're like, it would be great if we had that still.

Hold on to those tapes.

Make sure we have those backups because we had this 45-minute blackout because a dish went down or something.