the moon: classic or dud

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Really I feel no special affection for it -- the distant stars seem much more compelling and mysterious (and I suppose they are on a more objective level).

Is the moon a bit dud? Lacking in color and feature? What has it done for you?

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

http://iceangel2133.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mooninites.jpg

The moon is awesome beyond ALL comprehension.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

http://tiedyedbrainrays.typepad.com/blog/Melies_Trip_to_moon.jpg
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― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Monkeys reaching for reflections of the moon in water = classic.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hogrockcafe.com/Vince%20Mooning%20-%20Hooters%202002.jpg

― o, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

classic
(inevitable)

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

The moon is A-OK with me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum14/keithmoon3.jpg

― o, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

you sure are quick on the draw, o

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Tonight the moon is playing tricks again
I'm feeling sea sick again
The whole world could just dissolve
Into a glass of water

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I used to spend my entire summer sleeping on the front porch so i could watch the moon. I am a lunatic.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Classic.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

You would say that, wouldn't you? ;-)

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!
-WS

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I used to spend my entire summer sleeping on the front porch so i could watch the moon. I am a lunatic.

Totally classic.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

xpost
Swygart said that??

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

classic, esp when it's huge and orange.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Many years ago, before my brother and became old married men, we used to go hiking every year at the July 4th holiday, or thereabouts. One year we drove late to the trailhead and camped as dusk fell.

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.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

moonlight shining onto an ocean is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

It would be a decent venue if they held any worthwhile concerts, but they're still classic for the Moon Patrol shirts the security guards wear. Oh wait, you didn't mean The Moon, you meant the moon. I like the moon, although I've never seen the man in the moon myself (probably because my latitude's more southerly than most of you fellows in the Northern Hemisphere).

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I few years ago I went on a canoeing trip through the Everglades (5 days). For the last few days we came out of the Glades themselves and canoed up the Gulf Coast... one night, because the tide was in, we pushed off at around 9pm and ended up paddling until 3am or so under a full moon. Quite possibly the single most beautiful night of my entire life. A flotilla of canoes, full of my best friends, moving quietly through the ocean under the stars (etc etc barf barf). Then my friend Miguel stepped on a ray and he pissed on it in retaliation.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/moonflag.jpg

― Posadist, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

hiroshi sugimoto - "tyrrhenian sea"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bobgruen.com/files/who/files/R.059%20KEITH%20MOON%20MAD%20HATTER%2074.jpg

Classic!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

The Moon Seven Times - C or D?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 7 July 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.acclaimedbabes.com/sydney-moon/5.jpg

YOU ALL WERE THINKING IT.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

(well, maybe not "all")

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeesh, lady needs to kill the blue eyeliner! Makes her look like Mimi from The Drew Carey Show.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

That's right. She looks just like that other woman.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, you know what I meant! ilXers be takin' me too literally, yo!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Dud right now, stupid tidal lunar cycles, bah.

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

― MIS Information (kate), Thursday, 7 July 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yinyincscloset.com/eBay/Uniform/Sailor%20Moon/sailormoon1.jpg

classic!!

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 7 July 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

enormous warmly yellow harvest moon rising over the darling range east of perth, seeming so large and close that you could reach out and put your hand on it: breathtakingly beautiful classic.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 July 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

very classic. le sigh.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

xypost to Gazza: William Shakespeare

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

The moon is a much better prospective serenade victim than any girl, because it glows and smiles and always comes back to you.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

it's quite likely that without it we wouldnt be here, so classic.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wiesner.de/covers/149b.jpg

― happiness stan, Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

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

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I still wish this hotel was going to be built in Las Vegas.

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

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I love it when the moon fills up a huge chunk of the sky to the point that it looks like a scene prop.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.ccastronomy.org/photo_tour_Moon_Map.jpg

I've been reading this fantastic biography of the moon lately, and it makes me happy. I am starting to feel a lot more affection for the moon, even as the author is going all debunky on "full moon madness" and "the moon affects women's periods" (even though he gets that one totally wrong - it's the new moon, not the full moon that is supposed to affect us).

So, uh, I change my vote to classic.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Dud. America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon.

― Deric W. Haircare, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

And then build a memorial comemmorating the blow up

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

The Moon was seriously bright last night. I sat at the window for ages looking at it.

― onimo, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

It was especially bright, yes - and not even quite full. I sat with the map in the moon biography and tried to pick out features, but my new glasses kept making me see double when I tried to focus on it.

I could definitely see the Mare Imbrium and the Mare Cresium, though.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I love the moon. It looks great through binoculars, I'd love to see it through a telescope.

The moon is such a benevolent presence, especially when it is realy low and close.

I look for the moon every night.

― *rumpie*, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Those chinese winkle pickers would still be alive if it wasn't for that damn moon. Murderer!

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't that a Kate Bush song?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

As a stepping stone in the journey further into space esp. to the SUPER EARTH it is classic. As a meteor blocker it's pretty dud since every time there's a threat of armageddon, it doesn't jump in the way of the bullet.

― Will M., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

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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

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 16 July 2009 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― seagulls are assholes (Trayce), Thursday, 16 July 2009 02:00 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 17 July 2009 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

As last night, I'm pretty drunk btw.

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 17 July 2009 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― Great Expectorations (James Morrison), Friday, 17 July 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

fuck the moon

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

its impt 2 have goals in lyfe

― →∞ (Lamp), Friday, 17 July 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

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

― (I'm white, btw.) (kenan), Friday, 17 July 2009 03:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

― (I'm white, btw.) (kenan), Friday, 17 July 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

― DavidM, Friday, 17 July 2009 08:29 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― Bill A, Friday, 17 July 2009 10:49 (sixteen years ago)

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

― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 17 July 2009 12:54 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― Bill A, Friday, 17 July 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

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/

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 July 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 July 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Monday, 20 July 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

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)

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:08 (sixteen years ago)

VV Cephei A = mind blown.

Amazing, really neat little animation too.

― Bill A, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

Man, I never knew Uranus was that big.

― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

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

― grocery groin (snoball), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Super Moon tonight

― Aerosol, Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

― What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. (Sanpaku), Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

― emil.y, Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

― poetic dissembling of bong-frosted twenty-something idleness (jdchurchill), Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

lol iatee otm - I Love Moon Music comin up

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Stevolende, Saturday, 19 March 2011 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― StanM, Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

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

― What-Diana-faked-death-living-false-identity-small-town-America (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Ludo, Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

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?

― Stevolende, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:51 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

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

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:30 (fourteen years ago)

meow!

― poetic dissembling of bong-frosted twenty-something idleness (jdchurchill), Sunday, 20 March 2011 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― j., Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:29 (twelve years ago)

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

― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:31 (twelve years ago)

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

― j., Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:34 (twelve years ago)

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

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:36 (twelve years ago)

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

― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:41 (twelve years ago)

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

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:43 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

right now outside...

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1914187_10154421928702137_5311053870462990273_n.jpg?oh=62ee07d315279c401aea6f8aff6e591e&oe=57150003

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

― scott seward, Saturday, 26 December 2015 06:24 (ten years ago)

eyeball moon...

― scott seward, Saturday, 26 December 2015 06:25 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

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

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 19:26 (six years ago)

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

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 19:27 (six years ago)

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

― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:09 (six years ago)

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:55 (six years ago)

whoa cool

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 19:38 (six years ago)

six months pass...

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

― mark s, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:00 (five years ago)

blow up the moon

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:06 (five years ago)

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