Man on the Moon

[Ric]

44 years after Neil Armstrong went on his epic journey, I came accross this one for a bit of a chuckle. :lol:

No doubt the conspiracy nutters will take it as absolute proof. :rofl:

Cheers

[Wavytone]

Who let the cat out. Yeah... Right. Well if that's all you can do its not really funny.

As one who watched the first landing live - and Armstrong's first steps - it's still offensive. The world was a very different place - no conspiracy theorists, for starters.

In some ways I hold StarWars and all that followed fro Hollywood (Hollowood IMHO) as largely responsible for destroying the reality of this achievement. Gen X/Y/Z think it is easy, that it is trivial, and have no idea of the magnitude of NASA's achievement in that era. To have watched it live is still a rare privilege and anyone poking fun at it is merely displaying grotesque ignorance and disrespect.

[Ric]

I also watched the moon landings as well, all of them.

I still have the newspaper clippings of all the missions as well as the mission patches, I can assure you that I also see the importance of these missions and what man did and the fact that we still haven't been back or even moved onto Mars.

If you read into the joke I was poking fun at the people who think it was all done on a movie set.

Unlike yourself, I can take a joke and see the funny/ lighter side of things.

Cheers :)

[Baddad]

Well said Ric.:)
Some points that were mentioned on a National Geographic documentary:

6% of US Americans believe the Moon Landings to be a hoax and 25% of British share the same opinion.

A very valid defence is that at the time the Russians were in a race to the Moon. Yet there was no challenge from them regarding the authenticity of the Moon Landings.

Cheers:)

[jjjnettie]

A delicious tribute to Neil Armstrong and the 44th anniversary of the landing. :)
http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/21416253-418/all-chocolate-life-sized-astronaut-provides-unique-tribute-to-anniversary-of-moon-landing.html

[AstralTraveller]

And a slightly less delicious tribute to space pioneers. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iab9YKocUcw

BTW yes also watched the landing. Was too young at the time to really appreciate the event but I'm very glad now that I did see it.

[Ric]

Blimey, how awesome is that chocolate statue.

[bigjoe]

I watched it live, also as a young boy. My heros Neil and Buzz.
Stealing his choc fingers ! Sacrilegious !

[Kunama]

Deep breath and relax Wavy, I too watched in awe as that which was deemed impossible suddenly was achieved, with about the same amount of computer power as my scuba dive-computer! Watching these astronauts when the rockets were first tested and kept blowing up on the launchpad ...... it takes a very special person to jump on board the 3rd one not to blow up.........
My heroes ............ three men who made an enormous impact on me ............Gus Grissom, Jim Lovell and Gene Krantz.

[Steffen]

They won't be making the same mistake with the manned Mars mission, that's why they sent Curiosity first… :P

Cheers
Steffen.

[MortonH]

I have some sympathy with Wavy's view. I bet whoever created that image has little idea of what a monumental achievement the moon landings were. Maybe a more appropriate tag line would be:

"Someone let a prat on the 'net".

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Well said Ric!

I also watched the moon landings, all of us old farts showing our age now!:einstein:
I do feel very privileged to have witnessed these events!

Cheers,

Justin.

PS. I know it's Einstein but it's the only old guy I could find.

[BPO]

There have always been conspiracy theorists.

[Hans Tucker]

And Opportunity, Spirit, Sojourner, Phoenix, Viking 1, Viking 2.

[Steffen]

Yes, but they wouldn't do anything to the cat ;)

Cheers
Steffen.

[alocky]

Perhaps it's the 'cat who walks through walls'? In which case it has every right to be there. I remember only the last moon landing, so I'm not as distinguished as some here, and only managed a smirk at the image.
Even Buzz Aldrin has started to satirize the hoax theorists, (admittedly he did punch someone over the hoax question a while back), so if he can laugh about it now, I think we all can.
Cheers,
Andrew.

[jjjnettie]

And 100 bonus points awarded to Andrew for the Heinlein reference. :)

[alocky]

I wasn't sure if anyone would get it :)
Faith in fellow amateur astronomers restored! Thanks JJJ

[jjjnettie]

I'm a huge RAH fan. :)

[goober]

Don't forget about Bill, who's still up there (these are very funny)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svAQ6BCIgxg

[Nortilus]

I'm Gen Y (pretty sure..LOL) and I was not even a twinkle in the eye of my father when all this went down. I however believe that it is one of human kinds greatest achievements. What I want to know is how come in the 40 years since, is there no moon base alpha or neo tokyo on the moon? i think its time to get this done so we have somewhere to launch from for asteroid mining and further manned missions of the solar system...

[astroron]

WOW:eyepop: What side of the bed did you get out off:question::question:
Lighten up, We are mainly astronomers on this site and as such are well aware of the doubters,but also have a funny bone, and can appreciate a bit of humor now and again:)
I for one found it amusing :D, and you should too.:rolleyes:
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Jeffkop]

Im constantly amazed at peoples reactions to, in my mind, absolutely nothing statements about nothing in particular .. IE stuff thats not really important ... Nice one Ric .. funny as .. doesnt conjure up any under stated or mocked feelings towards the endevour of those apollo 11 guys to me .. just a funny picture .. Wavytone .. you need ta open a bottle of bundy n throw the lid away and enjoy !!!!

[04Stefan07]

Haha love memes!:lol:

[TrevorW]

Was that the cat that chewed his new shoes,;)

Now you know why there are no mice on the big piece of cheese :P

Another one that watched in awe , clippings, models you name it I had it, in fact I've still got a model of the Apollo on my desk. :thumbsup: