I always thought it was more of an urban myth than anything else that some people actually don't believe that we've gone to the moon, but after a recent dinner party conversation gone awry, I now know differently. So far, it's only been females that I've encountered who hold this belief. The reasons for their skepticism is as varied as they are crazy and far too tedious for this junior detective to recite, so I won't.
What is the why for this harebrained notion? I don't know, has a whole generation of our young women somehow been lead astray? Did they all go to different schools? Have the Bush years so warped their faith in the honesty of government that now every big thing is suspect?
Who knows?
But hell, maybe they're right. Who am I to judge? I've bet on Auburn the last two weeks and lost mightily and I'm pretty damn sure I'll bet em' again this weekend.
Anyway, my mind was set to pondering all this after reading a story about Google's moon trip contest.
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Here is an irony: if you are reading this, it follows that you have found a place visited less often than the moon - the comments section of the The Riot Report. But, like other worlds not discovered, this does not suggest a lack of wonders. Are there riches here? I don't know, but I don't think anybody's struck it rich on the moon either - but in the commentor's opinion it certainly has been worth while going lunar. Which is really the point of the RR's exasperation with those naysayers of Human Progress. Of course we went to the moon! In fact, we've always been going to the moon - it's only recently that we have gained photographic evidence of this age old boring feat. There is evidence that prehistoric man went to the moon - why wouldn't he!? Can you imagine being stuck on the Earth and living in a cave surrounded by body hair and the gassy stench of half-digestion - all the while the clean and lovely, taunting moon hanging overhead every night? Even a caveman doesn't need a written invitation - it's insulting to think that a moon trip didn't take place on the heels of the upright stance. Shame on you who deny the moon.
Do I detect a whiff of sexism wafting from your last entry? Only the females you've encountered have this this notion eh? Well does the fact that when you are out and about socializing you are trying to encounter mainly females? ( I personally know this to be true.) And futhermore, does the amount of females you do encounter really give you a fair gage of what a "generation of women" believe? I know the numbers and I challenge that logic. As a very womanly female I want to state I absolutely believe we've walked on the moon. I mean it was on tv, come on, of course it's true. Then again I also believe in bigfoot and the possibility of peace on earth...so maybe I'm not the best one to ask.
Do I detect a whiff of sexism wafting from your last entry? Only the females you've encountered have this notion eh? Well what about the fact that when you are out and about socializing you are trying to encounter mainly females? ( I personally know this to be true.) And futhermore, does the amount of females you do encounter really give you a fair gage of what a "generation of women" believe? I know the numbers and I challenge that logic. As a very womanly female I want to state I absolutely believe we've walked on the moon. I mean it was on tv, come on, of course it's true. Then again I also believe in bigfoot and the possibility of peace on earth...so maybe I'm not the best one to ask.
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