At the work the other day one of my coworkers got on the subject of the Moon Landing's 40th anniversary coming up on the 20th. I said "Oh that's cool." and then next thing I know she shouts back "We never went to the moon! It's a bunch of crap." and her and one of my coworkers went on about some of the evidence that people use to try and prove it never happened.
So it got me thinking and I decided that in honor of the 40th anniversary of this great, or possibly not so great event in human history, I'll do a series of posts on the Moon. They'll revolve around various theories that are out there about it such as aliens watching the astronauts there, the Moon being hollow, and even the possibility that the whole landing was faked just to prove ourselves to the Soviets.
Anyways, tomorrow I shall post the true introduction to what the Moon is and maybe get into some of it's oddball features. In the meantime I leave you with this classic image of from an old silent film.
Friday, July 10, 2009
The Moon: Intro
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Hee hee. I'm glad you're covering this. My older brother and I had this relationship where he was a right-wing, Republican, chauvinistic, football-watching type of guy and I was going to drive his orderly world to bits. If he said something was blue, I said it was red. I came up with great debates about it too. I had an ongoing one with him that drove him mad. He said we went to the moon and I said we didn't. (Of course, I didn't believe that for one second, but watching his face go red was priceless). We'd debate the evidence over and over again until this flag-waving, John Wayne loving, Redskins fan would almost burst like an aneurysm. Every time he saw me, he had to bring it up and get all excited and his BP rising and I'd continue along my side of the debate (which was hilarious since I didn't believe what I was saying). One day, I think in the middle of him trying to defend our landing on the moon, he stared at me, mouth open, and said "you're kidding me, aren't you? This is another one of your tricks." I had to fall into a fit of giggles. We'd spent a year debating the moon landing and it never dawned on him that his sister was scamming him again. He fell for it every time, utterly insulted that such an intelligent woman could be so daft. After that, when anything happened, we'd say "maybe man should finally go to the moon." Thanks for the cool memories. That was the last time I got to rib him before he passed on suddenly in 2001. Anytime I hear about the moon conspiracies, I just smile and think of him.
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