Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for August 25, 2010

The big slobs!

Some of that stuff might be collectible.

Since the flag is still standing, this must be the Apollo 17 site, the one where they planted the flag far enough away to avoid being knocked down during the liftoff. (They showed the liftoff live by video, and did not want the flag to fall on camera.)

Is there still a sand trap on the 17th hole?

Watch out for orbiting golf balls

For you “the moon landing was a hoax” conspiracy nuts, why is the flag flapping in the wind?

Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints. (And some satellites…and a flag.)

The “wind”, of course, was the exhaust from the LEM’s upper stage. The flag couldn’t even stand extended without some internal help. I remember watching one of those flags being extended by one of the astronauts.

Hey, O-Dor, that “junk” alone adds millions of dollars to the property value, even leaving aside the price you could get for it on e-Bay Interstellar. And have you heard about the mineral rights lately?

That buggy in the background whose name I can’t remember [Lunar Rover?] should be up on blocks.

Lunar Rover, yes, but who would steal the tires? It’s not as if anyone else makes them, so how could the tires be fenced?

(of course, just asking the question raises all kinds of crazy possibilities…)

They’d sell well on ebay….

^ right you are!

ol Newton, he really had a knack for “things in motion”

Lewreader, good advice! Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the next guy up there stepped off the lander and got smacked by that golf ball?

Sock Puppet Alien, reading the plaque: “Who is ‘Richard Nixon,’ and why didn’t he clean up after himself?”

Does this mean we don’t get a refund on our security deposit?