"I like stories."
Posted on 07/20/2014 3:40:37 PM PDT by lee martell
I vividly recall being in the living room with my family watching tv in 1969 as the American Astronauts walked on the moon. The pictures were fuzzy, black and white, somewhat indistinct. It almost resembled an Ultrasound image an expectant mother would see. We were thrilled to be part of a country, a culture so advanced as to put men on the moon and later, to bring them back safely to earth. We had completely one-upped communist Russia! Sputnik was a very important step in space exploration. Quite significant back in 1957, but that was a long time ago, back when the United States only had 48 states. As America was bustin it's collective buttons with prideful , joyful celebration, Leonid Brezhnev most likely uncorked and emptied multiple bottles of Vodka on that day, attempting to drown his frustration. I think it was on a Saturday, but I'm not sure.
About 10 years after that, some people began asking questions, filing Freedom Of Information requests, wanting to verify the authenticity of reports that , yes, indeed, the United States really had done what was reported in Life Magazine, in Look, in Time, in Scientific American, Engineering Today, and so on. Yes, of course we put a man on the moon, didn't you hear the reports? You gotta be crazy or some kind of communist to question whether we did it. What do you mean, did we actually go there? Still, to this day, many people question exactly what did happen and where, and to whom did it happen? Does Russia know what really happened, and have they decided also to stay quiet? Was Hollywood stage setting involved to offer a 'simulation' for the public? Why did we never return there, when we have billions for wars and redundant infrastructure to please Labor Unions. Some scientists have said, the human body could never survive the extreme atmospheric pressures and temperature changes that await beyond the stratosphere. This question, like the question of who killed John Kennedy will never be answered to everyone's satisfaction. I still think we should explore attempts to mine minerals such as Helium from beneath the moon's crusty outer surface. We would benefit by learning how to set up enclosed colonies on the moon as well. I am not very certain what the benefits would be of Mars exploration, other than an Engineer's individual triumph.
Thanks Moose. Remember the day Neil walked out of the LEM onto the surface. Still the non-believers show up to tell us it did not happen ... LOL
Houston, we have a problem...
Post 59 was intended for YOU but there was a gremlin onboard.
Was I the lone respondent? Have you tried getting a sink full of soap suds? It is a wonderful place to go soak your head.
I was in our rented home outside of Yokosuka NB in Japan. Armstrong took his first steps around lunchtime, and I was watching on Japanese TV. No one else seemed very interested, but I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen. #1 on the bucket list was to be on the moon before I died; given the lack of space travel since, I'll have to do it after my death, on the way to heaven, by the grace of Christ.
http://glossynews.com/entertainment/201009281458/hubble-telescope-reveals-human-remains-on-lunar-surface/
Oooooooooh! :)
LOLOLOLOL!!!
Lunar satellite photos
It was a special day.
We watched the launch on Radar.
The tiny ship getting bigger and bigger with each passing hour as it approached.
Then whoomp, they dropped the RV right in the middle of Mr Middleton’s prize Lupins.
Ee they did make a mess....
” yet if they were actually on the Moon, there is no gravity to make it dribble.”
The Moon has 1/6 of the gravity of the Earth. In fact any particle, no matter how small, exerts gravity based upon its mass.
When was one of the co-hosts for a futurist conference at the university, NASA loaned one of the Lunar rocks to us for display. It was my responsibility to take the rock from the vault, put the exhibit on display, guard the exhibit, and return the rock to the vault each day of the conference. This proved to be a great opportunity for a little prank. When I was on my way to return the rock to the vault for the night, I happened to see my geology professor in the hallway outside the office with the vault. It so happened my assignment for the geology department that summer was to map rock and fossil collection sites for use by future geology classes. So, he was not all that surprised when I stopped him and said I had a recent geological sample for him to see.
The Lunar rock was encased inside a translucent pyramid of some material similar to a plexiglass for viewing. The interior of the container kept the Lunar rock sample in a noble gas. This Lunar rock display case was then stored inside a Halliburton case with some sturdy locks. It was this Halliburton case that I was carrying back to the vault when I met my Geology professor. I set the Halliburton case down on the counter and invited the geology professor to open the case and examine my recent rock sample discovery. He opened the case and took a look at the rock sample in its super special container, frowned, and asked what was so special about this dull and cinder like rock, why it was encased in the container, and where did it come from? I said, oh, it came from the Moon. He looked at me like I must have thought he was really stupid to fall for a gag like that, gazed at the rock briefly, and left after making it clear he wasn’t convinced I wasn’t joking around with him.
Later on after the conference ended and the Lunar rock was returned to NASA, he heard the news there had been a Lunar rock on display at the university. He then asked me why I hadn’t told him the sample I showed to him REALLY WAS a Lunar rock! I said in response, “I DID, I REALLY DID (smile)!
Back in 1968, this kind of stuff would be printed as fact in SCIENCE AND MECHANICS MAGAZINE.
I remember their attempt to prove that Uri Gargarin never went into space, but it all was filmed on a sound stage in the USSR.
Yeah, but the Tang flowed too naturally for it to be moon gravity.
"I like stories."
You had the last laugh. I’ll bet he stayed mad about that for years. I’ll also wager he never told anyone else that he was a victim of his own arrogance.
There is gravity on the moon.
that's tooo funny... bet he kicked himself in the arse over that one for years to come
I got to stay up and watch the landing and the first steps.
At some point in my childhood I have a memory of a group of kids being able to handle a moon rock about the size of a thick thumb. We passed it around. It was white gray and had little darker specks. Is that a wrong memory or did they let some specimens get handled?
Whitey on the moon - gil scott-heron
run time = 00:01:29 minutes
Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (1949 –2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s. His own term for himself was "bluesologist". His music, most notably on “Pieces of a Man and Winter in America” in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. He released “Whitey on the Moon” on his 1st album, “A New Black Poet - Small Talk at 125th and Lenox”, © 1970.
8/25/2013 “A Reply to Gil Scott-Heron's ‘Whitey on the Moon’"
Neil Armstrong died today (8/25/2012, aged 82, 1 year after Scott-Heron died)
with Sambo on the dole
He's done picked up and gone away
with Sambo on the dole
We can't afford no moonshots now
with Sambo on the dole
Ten years from now we'll be broke still
with Sambo on the dole
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that sh*t wuzn't enough:
Neil Armstrong died today
with Sambo on the dole
How come there ain't no money here?
Hmm! Sambo's on the dole
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
of Sambo on the dole
I think I'll sen' the taxman's bills,
Airmail special
to Sambo on the dole
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