We Came In Peace For All Mankind

[filkertom]

Forty years ago today, humans from Earth first set foot on another part of the universe.

That's something to sing about.

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[phecda.livejournal.com]

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/369440main_lroc_apollo11_lrg.jpg

That little dot in the center with the long shadow is the Apollo 11 LEM Descent Stage as imaged recently by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html). As cool as this is, it's pathetic that it's taken 40 years to get something up there that could actually image the location and that we haven't been back since Apollo 17.

[wingus.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Randomly, I had a strange dream yesterday afternoon during my Sunday nap that involved you. The general gist of it was it was a world where Scientology had gotten its claws into a lot of mainstream stuff, and the monetary system was based on credits that were on cards. Apparently, you had filked at Scientology's expense far too much, and had become barred from buying stuff at particular establishments that were more under the control of the Scientologists than others. So much so that one place had the nerve to destroy your money card, grin, and tell you to move along.

And then dream-weirdness kicked in and changed to an entirely different subject.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

I said my piece on the anniversary over at my LJ (http://starmalachite.livejournal.com/4562.html/).

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

And I on mine (http://dr-zrfq.livejournal.com/207342.html) (though there's more coming that's sort of related).

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

And thanks to space program technology, we can sing on CDs and distribute our songs via the internet.

And, we have digital watches and Tang.

A Tang toast to all of you today.

[sdelmonte]

I was going to use the same subject line. Probably still will.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Tom, that song brings tears and chills every single time I hear it. Bless you for bringing your voice to the mix. (Another one that sends chills down my spine every single time I hear it is "The Ballad of Apollo XIII". Even though I know damn well how it comes out, I hold my breath through the long pause.)

Please gods let it be that we get back into space, not just Earth orbit, in my lifetime.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Yep. Sometimes I wonder what we've done since, but it makes this day no less wonderful.

[old-fortissimo.livejournal.com]

What an amazing coincidence...that's the very song Kat and I sang this morning before she went to work.

It is seldom that I break out guitar before my breakfast.

[croiduire.livejournal.com]

In honour of the day I have a picture of the Orion up on my LJ...
(croiduire.livejournal.com -- I'm sorry; I can't get the link to work properly)

To janetmiles, who wrote, "Please gods let it be that we get back into space, not just Earth orbit, in my lifetime." 2020...foresight?

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Did anyone else find it disturbingly symbolic that the first thing we did on the Moon was dump out our garbage?" -- Harlan Ellison, 1969.

I remember reading a book when I was 6 -- YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON. I thought, "Big deal, I saw it on TV yesterday." Well, I was 6...

[kismatt.livejournal.com]

*sings along*

Thanks, Tom!!

[ifics.livejournal.com]

Also our first soft martian landing in 1976 with Viking 1.