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First Commercial Moon Mission Approved
dorantrist writes "A Discovery Channel article that The U.S. Government has just licensed the first commercial mission to the moon to TransOrbital, Inc.. Part of the mission is "to VERIFY Apollo and other landing sites" because there are still a few people out there who believe the Apollo program was a hoax. --Maybe they can also pickup the golf balls left by Alan Shepard?"
Who thinks that people silly enough to believe the first trip to the moon was a hoax will now believe that this trip is for real?
"...to VERIFY Apollo and other landing sites"
Great, they're going to send back fake pictures of the Apollo landing site...
I bet this company was started years ago by the military in secret and now after all this time, when the dust has settled and the heat has let up, is going back to the studio to fake another landing. :)
This time I bet ILM will put some really cool animals and critters on the moon. Maybe even some faces in the rocks and a giant underground mine with a real live arnold.
WOW.
If I were only smart enough to accomplish the things I dream about.. Or maybe too dumb to care.
lander: we are now returning with alan sheperds balls.
base: what was that? (chuckle)
lander: i said were returning with alan shepards balls.
base: hehe, sweet. did you use the retractable cup tool to scoop them up?
lander: yes, we used the cup.
base: would you say that your... hehehehehe, cupping alan shepards balls?
lander: umm, yes, weve successfully cupped his balls.... do you guys hear laughing over the frequency cutting in?
base: oh no, no laughing here. would you say your excited to be cupping....
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Who would be believe a phony government agency disguised as a "privately" held company anyway? I sure as hell wouldn't. :)
Don't these guys know anything about marketing!?! What they should have mentioned is building the first Wi-Fi network and WarShuttling.
...getting Lance Bass & the rest of N'Sync in space permanently ...using the new lunar rover with bulldozer blade mounted on the front to carve a Pepsi logo into the surface of the moon to offset launch costs ...and the number 1 reason...
It's the ultimate vaction go where few have gone before.
... the US government has granted permission to an undisclosed public company to verify that stories posted on /. are real.
As an added bonus, this mission will weed out all duplicate submissions, spelling, grammars, etc. of the stories.
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whats worse is a life where you patrol slashdot for grammar heirs.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Oh, they'll just nip and tuck a little around his eyes. Trust me dahling, he'll look 20 millenia younger.
...many Europeans still don't believe people have actually landed on the North American continent!
;)
Many believe that life on other continents is just to absurd an idea to take seriously. Or, if life is there, the ocean is just too big a distance to cross, so we will never know.
In fact there is an European internet project called SATI@home, or Search for American Territories Intelligence, that is listening for intelligent life in North America. This project may fail though. If there is life in North America, it is likely that Europeans would never be able to decode the meaning of any of the messages or culture.
Many Europeans think its all just political mumbo jumbo anyway.
"The concept most foreign in all religions is that of a universe existing forever. Beginnings and endings are a fools dream."
-Anonymous
and Kevin Bacon be on this flight, too? Tom was so heroic last time he went. I hope he has better luck this time..'
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Who thinks that people silly enough to believe the first trip to the moon was a hoax will now believe that this trip is for real?
That was my first thought too.
But then I realized that the solution is obvious: We just need to round up all the people who think that the moon landing was a hoax, take them to the moon, and -- this is the important bit -- leave them there.
"The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life"
The surviving family of Jackie Gleason is suing for patent infringement.
/.'d into slag.
They claim that Jackie Gleason held the intellectual property for going to the moon some 15 years prior to the 1969 lunar landing. "To the moon, Alice!" is the phrase being used as proof that the business model was originally Gleason's.
TransOrbital could not be reached for comment due to a massive Slashdot effect, but expects that their poor webservers will be replaced sometime next week after being
"Our ancestor, The Great One, would have wanted us to protect his intellectual property," one of the relatives was quoted as saying.
Useless opinions, worthless observations, and more!
Who can forget the urban legend about Mr. Gorsky?
When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" statement but followed it by several remarks, usual com traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."
Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years many people questioned Armstrong as to what the "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.
On July 5, 1995 (in Tampa Bay, FL) while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. This time he finally responded. Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question.
When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a fly ball which landed in the front of his neighbor's bedroom windows. His neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky.
As he leaned down to pick up the ball, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex! You want oral sex?! You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
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What they really need to do to convince the skeptics is to leave something behind that *IS* visible from the earth. Like a big Nike swoosh. I bet Nike would pay $10 to $20 billion for it. If they wouldn't, Pepsi would. That oughta cover R&D on some kind of lightweight reflective (or non-reflective...?) deployable device big enough to be visible with binoculars. Or, a space-based solar-powered laser that could project an image on the dark parts of the moon during new moon phases-- but that would mean going to a lagrange point instead of the moon itself maybe. I dunno. Anyway, it would be hella cool.
Okay, so let's see. We have the technology to digitally edit people out of video scenes in REALTIME. We have the technology to digitally add in elements to a video scene (I would assume in realtime).
But what makes you think that the supposed proof of this digital editing technology isn't merely digitally edited in itself?
I'd be happier if Carmack and Co could check for us.
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