moon.google

[bouche]

IT'S BEEN 36 YEARS to the day since the first manned Moon landing, and to honour the historical date Google has posted some NASA imagery to Google Maps.

Simply go to Google.com and click on the banner to get to the lunar map. The map has flagged down all of the manned landing spots as well as the date that they happened and who was involved.

or just got to http://moon.google.com

[bouche]

zooming in is pretty cheesy too

[CyberHippie]

IT'S BEEN 36 YEARS to the day since the first manned Moon landing

allegedly!

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

IT'S BEEN 36 YEARS to the day since the first manned Moon landing

allegedly!

I'd swear I could see a couple of boom mics in the zoom shots.

[bradm]

I'd swear I could see a couple of boom mics in the zoom shots.

You mean taping of the landing was allowed? Cool! (Though I bet the levels are a bit low...) Is there a bit-torrent of it anywhere?

Aloha,

Brad

[CyberHippie]

THE MOON SONG

by Dave Hook

Well, "It's one small step for man

And one giant leap for mankind"

Those were the scripted words for Neil Armstrong,

On July 20th, 1969

That grainy footage shown on TV

At one time actually convinced me

But how do we really know?

Because Walter Cronkite told us so?

I say:

No man has ever walked on the moon

Now before you dismiss me as a loon

Listen to the facts and you may even find

A story that just might change your mind

You see it all started back in '62

JFK told the people what he would do

Put a man on the moon by the decade's end

Land, and bring them safely home again

He was a great speaker we all know

And he even banged Marilyn Monroe,

He was also just a politician,

But Jack knew Jack Shit

about the complexities of any space mission

Now NASA had to get their ass in gear

And suddenly their hearts were full of fear

The Russians were way ahead of them in the space race

Now Kennedy was setting them all up for disgrace

Their funding stood at about a couple BILL

Would not admit defeat, and never will

So they said:

If we can't make it, then we'll fake it

If we can't do it, then screw it

We'll film it in the desert, or on a sound stage

And put it on the TV and the front page

We'll shoot it all in black and white

Even though we got a color camera on the flight

We'll bring jeeps, but bring no telescopes?

We'll hit some golf balls all around,

Then stick a flag into the ground

That should be enough for the boob tube watching dopes

There are dangers about space travel most don't know

Radiation gets more intense the farther out you go

It starts at about 1,000 miles out

Go farther than that and die, there's no doubt

Unless you shield yourself with 8 feet of lead

Any less than that, and surely you'd be dead

But to build a ship like that, why even try?

It would be much too heavy to ever fly

Kennedy thought this was plausible

NASA knew it was impossible

But they still wanted to get paid

So they said to themselves:

If we can't make it, then we'll fake it

If we can't do it, then screw it

We'll film it in the desert, or on a sound stage

And put it on the TV and the front page

We'll bring extra lighting just for fun

Even though the only light source is the sun

But we need them for the photos we're going to take

No photos of stars or other stuff,

Some young astronomer may call our bluff

It never can come out it all was fake

'cause it's much too dangerous to really go,

On live TV? I don't fucking think so

We'll tape the whole thing in advance

For an unhappy ending we can not take the chance

3 dead astroNOTS would not boost morale

And anyway we'll be long dead before they cry foul

We'll show them some meteors we found on earth if they want proof

When you control the media you control the truth

Full body photos of Neil on the moon, there are only two

And he has never ever granted an interview

But this does not leave me too surprised

Ask him no questions, and he'll tell you no lies

He knows

They couldn't make it, so they faked it

They couldn't do it, and said, "Screw it"

They filmed it in the desert on a sound stage

And put it on the TV and the front page

Sent a satellite feed of their con

To a few on the ground who knew what was going on

Then beamed it out to all the excited folks

They were never 250,000 miles away

George Bush says we're going back some day:

But the first time around it was a hoax

They slowed the film, and hid the wires

Very very clever liars,

But

The first time around it was a hoax

[bouche]

allegedly!

I thought the same thing as I copied and pasted that text.