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30 Years Since Last Man on the Moon
Honeydipper Dan writes "December 14 marks the 30th anniversary of the last man on the Moon . I haven't noticed any hoopla about this. Perhaps this event raises the subtext of why we haven't been back a little more than the first Moon landing's 30th anniversary did over 3 years ago. The Apollo 17 mission was a great success, however, and deserves to be remembered. It marked the first (and last) time a geologist was on the surface of the Moon. Meanwhile, NASA is commemorating the Wright brothers' flight of December 17, 1903, getting ready for next year's Centennial of Flight."
we celebrate 40th anniversary of first dog in space.
This is only a big deal if the government has pulled the wool over your eyes and made you believe that the moon landing wasn't a bunch of barbie dolls dressed up in tinfoil, in front of a painted moon backdrop, with a guy from NASA making rocket noises into a microphone!
Now to spread the message to the rest of the world before the black hel!@#!@$()@!*$()W*DAWDWAOIFHWAOIFJWEDOIKAW
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The last mission was a treaty mission with the martians. I know, I know, martians on the moon? Really it was the best neutral ground to perform negotiations. We simply gave up a few insignificant earthly possessions. This included but not limited to: cow and other livestock mutilations, rights to human extraction and experimentation, and artistic grants with respect to indentures in agricultural area's. With the latter in mind we had no idea it would get so out of hand.... something about an open sourced method they spoke about.
In return for all of these great gifts the aliens gave us excellent insight into the mysterious and powerful microprocessor. While it has taken all of this time just to fully understand and develop from those early examples.
However, it seems to be time to renew the contracts being as the aliens added the Moores Law clause. Damned tricky devils.
Don't worry though, with our next encounter, we are a great deal more advanced now with regards to patent and contract law.
The scorn of the universe really is the lawyer!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
So long as children watch television shows with characters that proclaim 'ME WANT COOKIE', I very much doubt anything will change.
that was some good LSD.
"...that's no moon"
- Meanwhile, NASA is commemorating the Wright brothers' flight of December 17, 1903, getting ready for next year's Centennial of Flight."
Ha! Do you really believe in this stuff? If you look at the photos of the Wright Brothers' flight, you can see that they've obviously been faked with Adobe Photoshop. The shadows point in the wrong direction, and there are numerous other inconsistencies.Find free books.
Maybe we could colonize the moon with a bunch of geeks. Let them build a civilization and develop technology and so on. Below are a sample of reasons why this would be worthwhile.
1) As a backup society in case someone "presses the button" and destroys all life on Earth.
2) If the earthlings kept it all a perfect secret, possibly by committing hari-kari, after a few generations we could re-enact H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" and scare the shit out of everybody. That would put Orson Wells infamous reading of it to shame.
3) Future geek race would be the closest thing to an alien civilization we can make, it's a good substitute since we can't seem to find the real aliens. (they all got shot entering Texas?)
4) Dumping ground for Slashdot trolls.
So how do we convince them to go ? Many geeks lack any sort of attachment to society, so they may want to go. Or we could just tell them that the whole "man in the moon" thing was a mistake, it's actually a "woman in the moon" and she's aweful lonely. I don't know if anyone will buy that last one, but it's worth a shot.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
It is clear to me that moon exploration was abandoned not for political or scientific reasons, but because the critical resource sought--cheese--was found only in very small and unfonduable nuggets.
The 1953 development of Cheez-Whiz sparked an explosion in industrial demand for malleable cheese. Due to the perceived economic cheesemine in orbit, the space program was accelerated, principally by the ironically un-cheesy JFK.
By 1973, malleable cheese was reaching its zenith. Fondue pots outsold crockpots for the first--and last--time in US history.
Unfortunately, even with a trained geologist aboard and a specially-designed slightly cheesy vehicle at their disposal, the Apollo 17 mission was unable to find any sufficiently malleable cheese to justify future missions.
In a moderately successful effort to recoup their immense investment in cheese research, NASA leaked a derivative food-preparation technology to the market, leading to that year's introduction of the Cuisinart.
Subsequent experiments in using the Cuisinart to process traditional cheese have proven relatively disappointing.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. -A. Turing
You got it wrong!
Not only have the Americans bee nto the moon, but they also made us believe that the Apollo program was cancelled to make us feel it was worthless to go there. That way they can continue the construction of their military space station* on the dark side of the moon.
*Why did you think NASA cuts budget for ISS? They don't want to spend too much money to help a toy project that may compete with their military space base but they couldn't refuse to participate, so they went in and tried to sabotage the project from inside, making it look like the incompetence that they have been faking since the 70's**. They even bribed the Russian space agency, now that they also are capitalist pigs, so that people wouldn't put all the blame on them.
**Why do you think that so many Mars missions failed in the last few decades? It's because they wanted to get ultra secret gear there and if people believe that what they sent there was destroyed it won't be suspicious like if they had sent something without a cover story and every astronomer would have asked what it was.
Note: It's supposed to be funny but it's 5.20 AM, I didn't sleep yet and I'm French, so if it isn't funny I got some excuses, so give me a break, okay?
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
Just tell the geeks theres free uncapped cable on the moon. Thats what somebody told John Carmack.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
we blew the moon up 30yrs ago accidentally. what's up there now is just a large plastic model we put there so nobody would find out.
9/11 is a direct result of American foreign policy. The United States funded, armed, and trained the asswipes that planned that attack.
Yeah, we built them the Institute of Crashing Planes Into Buildings. Boy was that a mistake.
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