Boy you guys are getting nervous, still preoccupied with this trivial side show?
Where it says:
I've seen the same thing mentioned in another document reviewing the history of LRRR usage. but I've not managed to find it again
It also gives us a good candidate for the time when a young reporter got the wrong end of the stick on the evening of the first attempt.
It's reasonable to think that a young excited and inexperienced and perhaps not tech savvy, reporter might decide that that is his scoop, that "there is is", and go running off to get the story in.
How desperate can you be drewid? If this was true, they'd have the guy's name. If this were true AND were it true the guy put the video on a plane that takes 6 hours to get to NYC the video would be fact checked, vetted, especially because no one else has the story. The net work would call Lick Observatory to verify the thing. One call. Also, with respect to a ruby red laser blasting pulses out that last billionths of a second, one might get flash blinded, but you are not going to "SEE" flashing light in a conventional sense.
Much more likely, the video was fabricated and given to the studio along with the implication that it was authentic. For the reason above(billionths' of a second pulses etc.) it is realized the thing will be spotted as a phony almost immediately by anyone with half a brain, so right there that excludes 50% of the NASA staff. But one of the other 50% will pick up on it. One of the NASA guys with 3/4s of a brain will see this as patently phony and say, "hey everyone, we're being DUPED! this space mission we're running is FAKE!" So the same guys that actually passed the bogus video to the net work ultimately cover its patent fraudulence with this ridiculous story about the over zealous reporter.
AND the fact that your side, has to cling to these idiotic cover stories, does all the more to emphasize this thing is 10 plus fake.
AND, as I wrote to Kiwi9, my point about the Capcom mentioning the LRRR being successfully targeted to Collins, has nothing to do whether the targeting was or was not successful, whether or not there was or was not a reporter. The point is, if the capcom THINKS it was real for a moment, along with the supposedly reasonably intelligent people sitting around him AND Donald Beattie and the other lunar science boys were available to discuss this very type of thing live on the air. Here's Beattie;
"Four nights after the launch, in anticipation of the landing, the Voice of America (VOA) had assembled a team to report on this once in a lifetime adventure for its worldwide audience. Several NASA colleagues, Merle Waugh, John Hammersmith, William Land, and I, were in the Washington studios as "color commentators" to back up the VOA reporters led by Rhett Turner, who would be reporting from the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. We listened anxiously, just like millions of others around the globe, to the exchange between the capsule communicator (CapCom) Charlie Duke and Armstrong and Aldrin in the Eagle as they went through the final maneuvers to land the LM. The excitement of those last few minutes, heightened by the crew's difficulties in selecting their landing site with alarms ringing in their ears and their fuel supply nearing exhaustion, made Armstrong's announcement "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed," almost anticlimactic. We could hear the cheering in the Mission Control Room through Rhett's microphone, and we in VOAs Washington studio were yelling and pounding each other on the back too. Although we had worked for years to help achieve this moment, it seemed incredible that we were successful on the first try."
Donald A. Beattie. Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program (ebook Locations 2806-2813).
So Kiwi9 stepped in the Borman poop when he pressed this point with me because first of all it is immaterial to my argument. My point had to do with the FACT IN THE TRANSCRIPT that the CapCom SAID WHICH HE DID that the LRRR had been successfully targeted. My point plays out the same way, regardless of the story's authenticity, or how its inauthenticity may be accounted for. AND if one looks at this thing with a critical eye, one can see any reasonable person wouldn't buy this bull for the few billionths' of a nanosecond duration of a Lick Observatory ruby red laser pulse.
Give it up drewid. The thing is a bogus story and even if it were true, I could almost not care less. I suggest you spend your time in an effort attempting to debunk 1178 and my demonstration of telemetry fraudulence.