the moon: classic or dud

The moon is awesome beyond ALL comprehension.

Totally classic.

After we ate and set up camp, the moon rose. We wandered over to a hillside where we were bathed in moonlight and we talked. As we talked, we stared at the moon. We couldn't take our eyes off it. At some point we 'came to' and looked at our watches. It was midnight. It seemed like no time at all.

Classic. Utterly classic.

Classic!

YOU ALL WERE THINKING IT.

Then again, I haven't seen it in ages. Stupid long summer nights and horrid long working hours.

classic!!

Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold

Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

It's now a considerably different (and less spacey) resort slated for the Bahamas.

HD video of the Moon from 13 miles above the surface taken by Japan's KAGUYA probe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c1T2oKEffQ&fmt=22

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yay. a google map of a place with no good bars around.

I love the moon. Sometimes I wish people had not walked all over it. But I guess it made for some touching documentaries. It would just be nice to be able to look up and see something perfect and untouched by us, especially when I think of all the spacejunk and other crap that we've chucked up into space, which used to really get me down when I was a kid.

There is so much in the universe untouched by us or anyone! Which reminds me, I really want to get a telescope.

the moon does not exist

Took Astronomy in college and at the end of the section on the moon the professor told us the most popular theories say that in the future the moon will slowly get pulled closer and closer to the Earth and then eventually sit in one place, phase-locked, for the rest of time*. Like there wouldn't be a moon in the sky anywhere on Earth except if you lived in this spot, and then it'd be like 5 times as big as it is now!

*maybe, I don't remember everything that he said cos it was 5+ years ago....

so this, pretty much:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/1114/321152-48_super.jpg

eh, what good is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

I'd have to say total dud...I mean, what does it do?...provide light at night?...we don't need light at night...it's NIGHT!...plus, when it's full people go crazy, and dogs bark at it when we're trying to sleep...

when it's full people go crazy, and dogs bark at it

and this is not classic?

not when you're trying to sleep

The moon does a bunch of stuff! The tides are a big part of mating for tortoises and crabs and all sortsa fishy shit. There's a lotta climate stuff, too, it would be drastically different (I think I read speculation somewhere that the earth might not have been suitable for life w/o it). And the moon has something to do with volcanic activity? Oh, and there was that chapter in Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, so it's classic for that alone! The moon is cooool.

Someone who actually knows their stuff should school us. On the mothafuckin moooon.

reflecting the sun's pale fire = classic

Oh yeah, it's totally classic, the moon. It sits there quietly, but it does it's thing anyway. It's a full moon tonight, btw.

The moon is awesome and huge and orangy tonight!

ooh orangey! We don't have that here. :(

surfing by the light of the full moon on a windless, glassy calm sea, with a head-high swell running, phosphorescent plankton glowing in the dark: pretty damn classic.

Thought this was gonna be about the forthcoming Sam Rockwell movie directed by David Bowie's son.

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/apollo_07_15/a24_11375528.jpg

love these guys

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

Why do they always use that pic of Armstrong where he looks like Jeremy Beadle?

watch for all mankind.

For All Mankind (and a bunch of others) were on in the uk last week and, yes, beautiful. mesmerising shots of life aboard the spacecraft, even just that one simple shot of two torches twisting in zero gravity...

watch also 'Space Dogs' if you get the chance - documentary about russia's canine experiments. all those flights in 1951, they filmed everything and kept all the tapes and it's fascinating. also, cats in freefall are the funniest things.

ha, Spudnik. what were they thinking...

Too many people still have so little sense of quite what an incredible achievement the Apollo missions represent. I'll be raising a glass at 7.21pm on Monday.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/152/whalers8kp.jpg
We're whalers on the moon
We carry a harpoon
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing a whaling tune

alabaster retard

fuck the moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKsxumy_-Z4

While the moon thing was an awersome achievement it staggers me that after all these years and with all the technological advances we've made, we havent advanced people much further into space let alone worked out how to get them to visit even Mars or out beyond our system.

it's the money

Well, the logistical problems of transporting humans that kind of distance are pretty enormous too. It takes like 250 days to get to Mars I think? Can't imagine how long it would take to get outside of the solar system.

So, yeah, I don't think it's pretty staggering at all that we haven't reached that point.

The Big Picture features Apollo 11 today. You may have seen Apollo pictures before, but these are just amazing

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

Yeah thats understandable - I think what I meant though was, why have we not managed to develop rocket/vehicle tech that would get us places faster, and thus solve those very logistical issues. I dont look for an answer really, just wondering aloud.

Surely the tech exists, but the will to spend the money on it is what's lacking?

It really bothers me that the moon landings has become, in the popular mind's eye, just an ordinary aspect of history, when it's far and away the most abnormal thing that humanity has ever achieved.

The fact that a mission to Mars or back to the Moon is beholden to politics is revolting. It should be, must be and is a genetic imperative. The need to visit the Moon stems from no different a place as the need that the early cave-dwellers had to see beyond the horizon, regardless of the unknowables involved.

As last night, I'm pretty drunk btw.

Well, the logistical problems of transporting humans that kind of distance are pretty enormous too. It takes like 250 days to get to Mars I think? Can't imagine how long it would take to get outside of the solar system.

Yeah--as I understand it, we TECHNICALLY have the knowledge/tech to get people to Mars and back, but it would be 2-year trip at minimum, with much opportunity for things to go horribly wrong.

My suspicion would be that China will try it--they've got the money, they're quickly putting together the technical side of things, and the government has what you might describe as a disregard for the value of individual lives in the name of a hugely effective propoganda exercise.

fuck the moon

― lohan on 'em (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:25 PM

its impt 2 have goals in lyfe

http://writing.rebeccareid.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/georgelassosthemoon.jpg

What he does with the moon later in the privacy of his own home is not my business.

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

Can't imagine how long it would take to get outside of the solar system.

Some googling reveals that for a probe to travel to Pluto takes about nine years. It also revealed this:

http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

which left me in doubt as to the boggling size of the solar system.

So until some serious future-tech 2001/Aliens/etc suspended animation systems are invented Mars looks like the furthest we can go.

My suspicion would be that China will try it--they've got the money, they're quickly putting together the technical side of things, and the government has what you might describe as a disregard for the value of individual lives in the name of a hugely effective propoganda exercise.

Hey, go for it! It's not like we're running out of Chinese people anytime soon.

Reading back up thread got to agree with the For All Mankind love; great film.

It's not like we're running out of Chinese people anytime soon

nice sentiment.

Forty years ago today.

Currently listening to http://somafm.com/play/missioncontrol (Apollo 11 audio with ambient music background)
Also http://twitter.com/apolloplus40
And http://kottke.org/apollo-11/

Also here: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio/

the government has what you might describe as a disregard for the value of individual lives in the name of a hugely effective propoganda exercise.

― Great Expectorations (James Morrison), Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:37 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

Actually this isn't too far off from the US's original motivations for putting a man on the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ

(ff to 1:34, doesn't show distance between planets, but shows a rather interesting size relation between planets, and then the suns wooah)

VV Cephei A = mind blown.

Amazing, really neat little animation too.

Man, I never knew Uranus was that big.

You can see it if you have a large enough reflector.

Super Moon tonight

I am SO MEGA STOKED for the super moon. Gonna take the boombox out onto the back porch tonight, cannot decide what music to play, metal or classical or electronic

if only there were a cool new ILX board to help you make that decision

Classic: it gives us early warning of a solar nova (Hulu vid, the Larry Niven novella was better).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIN1tznnFY

i too am psyched for this supermoon. hopefully the sky stays clear in chi-town sos i can take picture

lol iatee otm - I Love Moon Music comin up

It's got Sam Rockwells in.
& is currently the closest its been in a blue one.

Super moon is quite big indeed. My scales aren't showing any weight loss yet, though. Maybe a little later on when it's overhead.

Jesus christ. So I wake up at 5 am thinking 'oh the sun is out, it must be time to wake up'. NO.

moon really like a flashlight tonight, indeed. with clear skies luckily :)

Total dud, thought I wasn't seeing the Supermoon cos I was at the wrong angle on both front & back windows. So just went out into the rain and am realised it must be totally obscured by clouds.
So there is no light side of the moon

Cleerk Kiint?

I took a photo. Tbh, it could've been any other night of full moon and clear skies, but SuperMoon got me out there in the cold with a tripod and the hulkin' old Hanimex manual lens, and RegularMoon wouldn't have done that...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5540694201_38af2b33a6.jpg

That's a fantastic photo Michael!

Saw the Supermoon when it first emerged earlier tonight and it looked very beautiful. Big and vaguely orange at first. It still is beautiful, only now it looks like every full moon.

Keeping up with the Jones' but not quite managing it...
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5541106166_5a73a0054d.jpg
Super Moon by carljgodwin, on Flickr

meow!

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/how-do-we-welcome-astronauts-back-to-earth-by-making-them-go-through-customs/282122/

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/Apollo-11-Immigration-02.jpg

Cool. Somebody should post Buzz Aldrin's expense report.

i didn't notice the 'to be determined'. maybe i could have put this on the moon conspiracies thread

Accountant: "This expense claim for your recent business trip seems rather extravagant, Mr. Aldrin. Where the hell did you go, the moon?"

Payee's Name: Col. Edwin E Aldrin 00018
From: Houston Texas
To: Cape Kennedy, Fla
Moon
Pacific Ocean
Amount claimed: $33.31

Ah, but wait 'til you see the claim for gas.

right now outside...

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https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10370993_10154421929317137_5690295090126572607_n.jpg?oh=817e3b8abeb71602bd0215acdce1c06f&oe=571CFFA9

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/544216_10154421929802137_219099422918344625_n.jpg?oh=88592be383f8dbbfaeb5d5b00fb3e43f&oe=570423E9

eyeball moon...

It's 50 years since Apollo 11 launched into space taking men to the moon. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins are answering questions at the launch pad where the mission began in Florida https://t.co/xyAuOuRjsp

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 16, 2019

I didn't know Collins had made general until recently.

ive seen the cinematic release of all that footage and as a result im now c.25% ready to believe hoax

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

whoa cool

TIL there's a BISHOP OF THE MOON and he's bad not good :(

blow up the moon