Terry ([info]l_stboy) wrote,
@ 2009-07-15 10:58:00
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Moon Dust is actually hippie shavings from Burning Man
The New York Times is doing a bunch of stuff on the moon today, here's my favorite article of the bunch:

Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors

Mr. Sibrel, who sells his films online, has hounded Apollo astronauts with a Bible, insisting that they swear on camera they had walked on the Moon. He so annoyed Buzz Aldrin in 2002 — ambushing him with his Bible and calling him “a coward, and a liar, and a thief” — that Mr. Aldrin punched Mr. Sibrel in the face. Law enforcement officials refused to file charges against Mr. Aldrin, the second man on the Moon.


If it was all a hoax, man did we find some cool rocks somewhere ;)
Conference proceedings: Toxicological Effects of Lunar Soil
http://machineslikeus.com/news/nasas-dirty-secret-moon-dust

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Also (thanks, Badger!), this site (sponored by the JFK Presidential Library) is doing a real-time rebroadcast of the Apollo 11 mission from launch to landing for the 40 year anniversary: http://wechoosethemoon.org/


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[info]badger
2009-07-15 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Friend of mine posted this (link) a couple of days ago:
http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/lro-and-the-apollo-hoax-believers/


Also I found a countdown to the Apollo 11 launch in real-time forty years later:

http://www.wechoosethemoon.org


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[info]l_stboy
2009-07-15 07:17 pm UTC (link)
wechoosethemoon is awesome! I'll have to keep that on during the day until the 20th. Ugh, and get up at 6 AM tomorrow to catch the launch.

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[info]tyratae
2009-07-15 06:53 pm UTC (link)
here's what you get if you ask me about the moon (anyway, i thought not shaving was sort of a hippie prereq): galileo's sketches, which i got to peer at (a really good reproduction of) in florence, alongside his (not reproduced) notebooks and telescopes:

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[info]l_stboy
2009-07-15 07:16 pm UTC (link)
ooh! :)

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[info]don_negro
2009-07-15 09:29 pm UTC (link)
I've always gotten a kick out of the lines that precede 'We choose to go to the moon....'

"'But why', some say 'the moon? Why choose this as our goal?' And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

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