and the "whoops, I erased the tape" award goes to . . .

[dbskyler]

An hour ago, I would've said the BBC, for their bureaucratic stupidity in "purging" a bunch of early episodes of Doctor Who so they could save storage space or re-use the film. But I've just come across a new case of maybe-we-should-have-saved-that-video that is so far up the "what were you thinking?? scale, I doubt anyone will ever match it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_sc/us_sci_moon_video

NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.

My government tax dollars at work; what can I say.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Heh. I saw that news story yesterday, and thought the exact same thing - it ranks with the Beeb erasing the DW tapes.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It makes me wonder just how damn expensive tape was back in the '70's that everyone kept erasing things in order to reuse it.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Pretty expensive, actually, like most technology-related items...