The dark side of the moon.
Friday, 9. October 2009, 19:19:02
Back in the 60s I wrote a chirpy little pop tune called Dark Side Of The Moon. You can imagine how possed iff I was when Pink Floyd pinched my title for their new album, particularly since they didn't put my song, or indeed any song of that title, on it.
Well my chagrin was as nothing compared with NASA today.
When man first landed on the moon he celebrated by dropping the lunar lander back onto it as he left.
Much to everyone's surprise the moon reverberated for half an hour afterwards.
Today they repeated the experiment on a far greater scale, and the moon again proved to be a bit contrary. It reacted by doing nothing. No dust, no reverberations, no nothing, and in particular, no water. Now me, I would have imagined that they would have covered the water thing while they were actually on the moon, and I'm not too surprised that the moon was unwilling to see itself declared as wet. Travel Agents would have started selling holidays carrying the tagline 'Swim in the Sea of Tranquility!', and no one wants that.
I suspect they've got the wrong moon. Earth has a second moon, it's rather small but it's there all the same traveling under the moniker of Cruithne, and it's really an asteroid traveling the same orbit around the sun as Earth, but it is more likely to contain water than the big one.
Actually there are currently 6 other moons sharing Earth's bit of space. If the universe is really so big you'd think they could move over a bit. What with all this and the giant ring they've just spotted around Saturn... I think I'm suffering from future shock.
See you on the dark side of the moon.
Well my chagrin was as nothing compared with NASA today.
When man first landed on the moon he celebrated by dropping the lunar lander back onto it as he left.
Much to everyone's surprise the moon reverberated for half an hour afterwards.
Today they repeated the experiment on a far greater scale, and the moon again proved to be a bit contrary. It reacted by doing nothing. No dust, no reverberations, no nothing, and in particular, no water. Now me, I would have imagined that they would have covered the water thing while they were actually on the moon, and I'm not too surprised that the moon was unwilling to see itself declared as wet. Travel Agents would have started selling holidays carrying the tagline 'Swim in the Sea of Tranquility!', and no one wants that.
I suspect they've got the wrong moon. Earth has a second moon, it's rather small but it's there all the same traveling under the moniker of Cruithne, and it's really an asteroid traveling the same orbit around the sun as Earth, but it is more likely to contain water than the big one.
Actually there are currently 6 other moons sharing Earth's bit of space. If the universe is really so big you'd think they could move over a bit. What with all this and the giant ring they've just spotted around Saturn... I think I'm suffering from future shock.
See you on the dark side of the moon.
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