Happy 40th Anniversary, Moon Landing!
40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon and made it REAL. Hope you'll join me all week for a celebration of space travel and exploration. To start with...
40 Things Armstrong Didn't Find on the Moon and that You Probably Will Never Find There
1. A monolith pointing the way to the next stage of evolution
Or should I call it a Moonolith? (First item and already you want to slap me.)
2. An intact LEM
3. Superman and Solar Man, duking it out in slow motion.
4. Luna Park
The happiest place orbiting Earth.
5. A plane in a crater, no matter what you saw in Weekly World News
6. Werewolves who can't turn into humans again
7. Dracula's vampire castle
8. Werewolves FIGHTING vampires
9. The Watcher
That cosmic voyeur who's as interested in what you've done as what you might have done if you were a little crazy and didn't care that everyone on Earth died.
10. A floating city filled with Inhumans
11. Any kind of "blue area"
12. Robin Williams' floating head
I didn't know that's what they meant when they called him King of the Moon.
13. Cheese. Loads and loads of cheese.
14. An armada, waiting just behind it
15. Cyrano de Bergerac
16. A base ready to take on the universe
In case, you know, the Moon flies off for a day trip.
17. Caves dug out by savage insects my ether ship's crew really wants to explore
18. That Chinese emperor who blasted his ass up there with a throne full of fireworks
19. Souls (creepy!)
20. Amazon Women
21. A giant Egyptian dung beetle giving it a push
22. Footprints... with toes!
23. The Justice League Watchtower
Because there's a lot of crime on the Moon.
24. Lake Armstrong (not that I mind the terraforming, but beaches made of dust aren't exactly what I think of as a good vacation spot)
25. Marvin the Martian's summer cottage
26. This
Oh, people from 1835. Will you never learn?
27. Giant adverts
28. An 18-hole golf course
29. Something in the Moon's eye
Or eyes, for that matter.
30. Tycho City
31. The gun that shot down Apollo 13
32. The TARDIS
33. John Glenn's space fireflies
34. Captain Haddock's empties
35. The Mirror Universe Neil Armstrong waiting for him with a gun
It could have gone down very differently.
37. The camera crew taking pictures of the moon landing
38. Dinosaur-killing bacteria
39. Andy Kaufman
40. A cow in orbit
Somebody should really just get around to shooting one up there.
40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon and made it REAL. Hope you'll join me all week for a celebration of space travel and exploration. To start with...
40 Things Armstrong Didn't Find on the Moon and that You Probably Will Never Find There
1. A monolith pointing the way to the next stage of evolution
Or should I call it a Moonolith? (First item and already you want to slap me.)2. An intact LEM
3. Superman and Solar Man, duking it out in slow motion.
4. Luna Park
The happiest place orbiting Earth.5. A plane in a crater, no matter what you saw in Weekly World News
6. Werewolves who can't turn into humans again
7. Dracula's vampire castle
8. Werewolves FIGHTING vampires
9. The Watcher
That cosmic voyeur who's as interested in what you've done as what you might have done if you were a little crazy and didn't care that everyone on Earth died.10. A floating city filled with Inhumans
11. Any kind of "blue area"
12. Robin Williams' floating head
I didn't know that's what they meant when they called him King of the Moon.13. Cheese. Loads and loads of cheese.
14. An armada, waiting just behind it
15. Cyrano de Bergerac
16. A base ready to take on the universe
In case, you know, the Moon flies off for a day trip.17. Caves dug out by savage insects my ether ship's crew really wants to explore
18. That Chinese emperor who blasted his ass up there with a throne full of fireworks
19. Souls (creepy!)
20. Amazon Women
21. A giant Egyptian dung beetle giving it a push
22. Footprints... with toes!
23. The Justice League Watchtower
Because there's a lot of crime on the Moon.24. Lake Armstrong (not that I mind the terraforming, but beaches made of dust aren't exactly what I think of as a good vacation spot)
25. Marvin the Martian's summer cottage
26. This
Oh, people from 1835. Will you never learn?27. Giant adverts
28. An 18-hole golf course
29. Something in the Moon's eye
Or eyes, for that matter.30. Tycho City
31. The gun that shot down Apollo 13
32. The TARDIS
33. John Glenn's space fireflies
34. Captain Haddock's empties
35. The Mirror Universe Neil Armstrong waiting for him with a gun
It could have gone down very differently.37. The camera crew taking pictures of the moon landing
38. Dinosaur-killing bacteria
39. Andy Kaufman
40. A cow in orbit
Somebody should really just get around to shooting one up there.
Comments
"The Mirror Universe Neil Armstrong waiting for him with a gun"
That one is my favorite!
To point and laugh?
You know I still look up in the night sky & wish that the moon was still there & not blasted out of orbit.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-future-is-not-what-it-us
Wallace & Gromit FTW
We haven't even fully populated the moon with moonbase cities yet, and we already need to find another place to colonize.
That cosmic voyeur who's as interested in what you've done as what you might have done if you were a little crazy and didn't care that everyone on Earth died.
That reminds me, whatever happened to What If Wednesdays? :)
Doc: Well, the moon HAS been made of cheese for a long time. Or actually, it specifically HASN'T, since the 16th century, when common proverbs held it that only fools could be made to believe the Moon was made from it.
Teebore: I don't remember it being a Wednesday thing (a lot of them were posted on Fridays, for example). Let's call it a recurring feature for when I don't have an idea for something else...
It's just that Neil kicked his evil counterpart's ass so hard that the mirror universe went into hiding for centuries.
In which case you need to read some McNinja.
Right now.
I'll wait.