From th Earth to the moon

[stangle12]

holy freaggin crap. im watchin a mini searies called from the moon. itslike, a 10 part. but its freakin crazy. we fuckin did it right then and there. all throughout human history we wanted to go to that shit, and in the SIXTIES we fuckin did it. we sat together as a world (and as a world i mean the US vs. Russia) and put us (on earth), there. (on moon) the concept was simple. very simple. and everything in between pure intellagence. Human evolotion happend right there, and it was less then a lifetime ago. THATS NUTS.

it makes me really wana go into space.

[benagain]

Yea, it's was a pretty big deal. Allthough there are some people who claim it never happened. I'd like to think that it did. It was one of those things that allthough we were doing it to out do another company, we accomplished something that didn't have a negetive effect on the world. Those were the good ol days when the whole world didn't hate us.

[stangle12]

haha, i've seein those eppisodes on the history channel about that. they're dumbasses. they made it seem like a club of people, all it really was was a collection of crazy grampa clips. clips of men wit no degrees of anykind trying to convince you of senile things.

[stangle12]

wow, and on the second trip to the moon, we managedto accomplish the following:
first piece of trash thrown away (LMP's piece of pin)
first porn in space (on spacesuit)

[Roadking]

I remember that day.

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

My best friend at the time took the headlines from the newspaper and wrapped it in plastic. He suggested I do the same so I could preserve history.

And a couple of weeks later, after a two week stretch of cloudy rainy weather, I was at another friends house. His name was Ed...and he was kind of dumb with real big feet...he had a little brother who was smart but had a speech impediment. They called his little brother "Jimmity Cricket"...because....well, he was a little guy...and he did look a bit like a cricket.
But the mother...now she was the wise one. As I stood there on that sick looking lawn between the chain link fence and the three-story gray apartment building with clothing from three generations-kids pajamas up to baggy old work pants that had seen many a factory day-flapping in the wind on clothes-lines, she put her hands on her hips above that polka-dot apron, looked up into the pastel sky and said...."mmm....hmmmm...mmm...this weather, I dunno. We shouldn't be messin' with that moon."

[stangle12]

hahahaha

[Caruso329]

great anecdote man.. love your writing.

[Victor Lazlo]

I read "From the Earth to the moon" (1889) by Jules Verne years ago! I have read a ton of Jules Verne! But I would not want to see the movie. No way it could live up to the book. I recommend you read the original! ;)

Edit oh yeah its that HBO moon thing that stole the title from Jules Verne... It was ok.. I saw a few episodes.

[bonsaiguy]

I watched the first landing on a 13" black and white tv. (I was about 10 yrs old) Talk about being engrossed. We were on summer vacation with a bunch of cousins at Lake Delevan, Wis. Family had rented two cabins for a week and almost everyone had come down with diarrhea. Each cottage had one bathroom and about 8 people. We were all glued to that 13" tv watching Neal Armstrong make history. To this day every time I watch the shuttle launches or landings I get chills.