Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for July 20, 2009

And some people thought the moon landing was a hoax? Happy 40th anniversary to the first steppers on the moon Apollo 9 crew!

That was an indescribable day.

Apollo 9? That must be a reference to something I’m unaware of. Could you elucidate?

Meanwhile, even though I was just a kid, I remember the magic of the day.

stay on the moon penguins and come back after 2012

JFri, it was a hoax wasn’t it? (snerk)

I didn’t know the Apollo mission computers ran on LINUX?

I was at Tay Ninh base camp in Vietnam at the time. Had a little battery operated TV and we all got to watch the landing.From all of the hootin and hollerin you’d thought we just won….

I was on a farm in Alberta, with a bunch of relatives watching on a small black and white TV in the kitchen. I even took a picture of the TV screen.

I was at the family cottage in Point Roberts WA. I took pictures of the TV screen too!

Reminds me of the old Muppet Show routine (with a slightly different cast-o-characters),

jfri: I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the figures, but a science article in The Daily Galaxy just reported that 6% of the population of the United States, or roughly 18 million people, still don’t believe the moon landing really happened, that it was a hoax. Very sad. (I was at a ball game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, watching the Dodgers-Giants. When the lander touched down, they stopped the game to announce it, and all the players came out on the field and cheered along with the fans)

uh, JFri…It was Apollo 11 not 9…….