Comments on: Moon landings

By: Drug Screen Devices

Drug Screen Devices — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:04:31 +0000

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By: Low Cloud

Low Cloud — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:27:22 +0000

A lesser-known fact is that the US did manage to build a small restaurant on the Moon five years later having to abandon the idea after a rather short run. Turns out the food was great , but there was no atmosphere.

By: ash

ash — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:35:51 +0000

This could turn into one of those “zen” conversations…

ash X

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:07:43 +0000

Ash,

The moon is already in a vacuum… LOL.

Andrew

By: Robb Williams

Robb Williams — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:24:29 +0000

I was 11 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and I remember the sense of excitement and anticipation which accompanied the days immediately before. My friends and I still had a couple of hot debates to be resolved – was the moon really made of cheese and were there moon men living in the craters?

I missed the actual landing because it happened in the early hours of the morning UK time, but we got let out of school early so that we could see the replay on TV. I remember we had the best shepherd’s pie I’ve ever tasted for lunch that day – don’t ask me why that sticks in my mind but the moon and shepherd’s pie will always hold an association. That evening I looked up at the moon and thought,”Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are bouncing around up there”.

Wonderful memories of a wondrous era where everything seemed possible and there was still so much more to discover.

By: ash

ash — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:54:45 +0000

Could do with a good vacuum eh?

ash

By: You Can Be a Star

You Can Be a Star — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:11:07 +0000

[...] “[Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23,” Gilmour writes in the Guardian. “The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube.” (It is in fact on YouTube, as evidenced by the above video, provided by Gilmour’s own blog.) [...]

By: Michèle

Michèle — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:02:04 +0000

“British scientist claims he coined Neil Armstrong’s moon landing quote” (from Twitter)

Indeed, it would have been great fun if Neil Armstrong’s first words on the Moon would have been: “Holy chicken s**t, look at all that f***ing dust”.

Well, all those liars (on Earth), even among scientists, what a shame!

By: Lauraa x

Lauraa x — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:10:23 +0000

I wasn’t even born then, I’m only 15 years old.

But I have seen bits and pieces of Armstrong walking on the moon, and I find it really amazing!

By: Fat Chants

Fat Chants — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:06:53 +0000

Hm. After all the inner space exploration Pink Floyd did, all the subtle references to plant shamanism, Israel Regardie’s book about hashish, soundtrack to an anti-heroin film where LSD is the only thing that helps, and mastery of the psychedelic mathematical language that pervades the music of a small handful of brilliant people such as Monk, Sun Ra, and themselves… after alllllll of that, having been the gushing fountain of most serious, unpretentious ‘tripping music’ for teenagers to grow up to in headphones.

We’re talking about Pink Floyd and the moon landing?

Apparently landing alllll the way up on the moon does not do much to raise one’s consciousness or morality to any higher standard than that of furry animals who burrow alllll the way underground, SO…

Gilmour was right when he wrote, “the Last Sunlight Disappears”.