Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings 339
R3d M3rcury writes "The Lunar X-Prize is a contest offering $20 million to the first private organization to land and maneuver a robotic rover on the moon. There is also a $1 million bonus to anyone who can get a picture of a man-made object on the moon. But one archeologist believes that 'The sites of early lunar landings are of unparalleled significance in the history of humanity, and extraordinary caution should be taken to protect them.' He's concerned that we may end up with rover tracks destroying historic artifacts, such as Neil Armstrong's first bootprint, or that a mistake could send a rocket slamming into a landing site. He calls on the organizers to ban any contestant from landing within 100KM of a prior moon landing site. Now he seems to think this just means Apollo. What about the Luna and Surveyor landers? What about the Lunokhod rovers? Are they fair game?"
100km is excessive (Score:5, Funny)
How many places would remain if all those spots are banned? There are only so much good landing sites on the Moon.
Why Worry? (Score:4, Funny)
The Consipiracy Continues (Score:5, Funny)
And keeping people away from the original "landing site" will keep them from figuring out that the first moon landing was faked by the government. (Or was it faked by our evil reptilian overlords? I can never keep that straight.)
Depends on who gets there next (Score:4, Funny)
I can't imagine the bootprint lasting long if North Korea make it up there.
You think those were nuclear missiles they were firing? North Korea are planning the worlds first single stage rocket 'landing' on the moon, with their great leader strapped to the front because he is so awesome he can actually reduce drag.
Re:Chinese Policy (Score:2, Funny)
Or they could use the traditional method of setting up a factory and dumping tons of toxic waste into the area, eventually degrading the place to a point that no one remembers it ever being pristine.
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah.... and you know who was the best example of that? Captain Fucking James T. Kirk.
You think one of the "red shirts" got to do it with a green alien babe? Of course not. It was Captain Kirk nailing all the Intergalactic Strange throughout the Alpha Quadrant.
If we had that future, you would still be bitching. Your best option would be the overweight Bolian chick down in engineering. You would NOT want to go down to the planet. All you would ever hear about it is how Captain Kirk made it up back up with just a few seconds to spare, shirtless with sucker marks all over him, but Steve the poor S.O.B that transferred last week died a horrible death on the planet while some strange alien animal was sodomizing his corpse. Steve's parents would have to get a message about how his cause of death was "mauling by alien genitalia on Rontos 5".
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Re:The Consipiracy Continues (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Consipiracy Continues (Score:2, Funny)
So your theory is the first bootprint on the moon was wiped out long ago by a camera operator on his smoke break?
Re:There is a house in New Orleans (Score:3, Funny)
I hope you remembered to tell your children, not to do as I have done ?
Me, I've got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. The train left 5 minutes ago, and now I have a severe crotch pain.
Thankfully, my mother is a tailor, and will be able to sew my ripped blue jeans. As for Father, he's either in a gambling house, or lying on top of a drunk (always confused me too, but listen to the original lyrics .. he does say "the only time he's satisfied is when he's *on* a drunk".
Re:The bootprint is might be getting fuzzy by now (Score:4, Funny)
oh yeah? name one.
Re:That's retarded (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The bootprint is might be getting fuzzy by now (Score:3, Funny)
Mmm dodo jerky.
Re:That's retarded, and more than you think (Score:4, Funny)
It's about tourists in a future a thousand years from now. You obviously never watched Futurama, right? :)
Re:Why Worry? (Score:2, Funny)
In space, no one can here me "whoosh!"
So are computers and internet... (Score:3, Funny)
... as long as there are people living without access to electricity of telephone.
Or cars, while people without legs are forced to use wheelchairs.
Or refined sugar and flour because you waste energy and pollute the environment just so richer people could have better tasting but less healthy food.
Heck... having two perfectly working kidneys is immoral as long as there is at least one person in the world strapped to a dialysis machine somewhere.
Blood is immoral too... people bleed to death constantly. CON-STAN-TLY!!! Like, right now!
Breathing? Fucking hell yeah it is immoral! And rude to all those people that drowned on the Titanic. When you breathe - you embellish their memory and all that they have ever achieved.
Existing? Well, naturally! By your very existence you are preventing other humans to take up that space. Immoral as a 3-tit whore!
And let us not even start with smaller creatures, like cats. Have you any idea how many cats could exist in the space you presently occupy? A lot!
Re:That's retarded (Score:5, Funny)
People who spray paint anything on the Grand Canyon should be shot on sight.
Great, then you get partially-finished graffiti _and_ blood stains on the walls.
Re:100km is excessive (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but 640K landing sites ought to be enough for anybody.
Re:That's retarded, and more than you think (Score:5, Funny)
Fry: Look! It's the moon landing site! We found it!
Leela: Fry, get in here.
Fry: It's that flag from MTV, and Neil Armstrong's footprint!
[Puts his foot over Armstrong's footprint, leaving a Nike footprint in its place]
Fry: Hey, my foot's bigger. Leela, isn't this the greatest thing you've ever seen?
Leela: Fry, look around! It's just a crummy plastic flag and a dead man's tracks in the dust. Now get in here before you freeze.
Re:That's retarded (Score:5, Funny)
Are we gonna freeze Lance Armstrong when he dies?
What does some bicyclist have to do with preserving the moon?
Re:That's retarded, and more than you think (Score:1, Funny)
FINE! I'll go build my own moon lander! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the moon lander and the blackjack. Ah, screw the whole thing!
Re:That's retarded, and more than you think (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's retarded (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's retarded (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's retarded, and more than you think (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's retarded (Score:3, Funny)
That sir, is just part of the Nevada desert.
Re:The bootprint is might be getting fuzzy by now (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, they landed on the dark side.