[meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like a really, really, really big pizza pie

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Rob, List,

Naiveté is not an excuse; it is another name for
gross ignorance. In Space 1999, the Moon is
blasted free of the Solar System to wander the
darkness of the interstellar void. Yet, whenever
they set foot outside of Moonbase Alpha, abundant
sunlight streams down upon them and a fully
illuminated lunar landscape stretches our before
them.

How do you get Sunlight without the Sun?

In my universe, no Sun -- no Sunlight. How about
you? It's 1975. We've just quit going to the Actual
Moon, even though the money has been allocated
for a total of 24 missions (with an option on an
additional 24). No, President Nixon has found a
better use for it, a more pressing need for the cash.
Something about burglar tools, I believe.

So, here, look at this "Moon" instead. Maybe the
word "ignorance" doesn't cover it either. And it was
wrong of me to compare them and suggest that one
would be better than the other. It's like choosing
between the infernal torment of being dipped in a
lake of fire or having small red demons pour molten
lead in your ears nonstop. (Thank you, Dante, for
the imagery.) There's not much to choose between.

Even better are the scenes where people are sucked
up into the air, right out of their seats, by the increased
gravity of the Moon. I calculate that it would take roughly
3600 gee's to do that from the distance of the Moon. So,
is that better-worse than Space 1999's Sunlight without
any Sun?

I can't choose. You pick.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob McCafferty" <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; 
<britishandirishmeteoritesociety at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like a 
really,really, really big pizza pie


>
>
>
> Seriously, I'm in the wrong job. I've spent much of the last year 
> putting together a mission to Mars game for our school. You can select 
> individual crew members. For example, one is from the Kashmir region 
> of India, one of her languages is a local dialect and her name is a 
> traditional Kashmiri name, all carefully researched.
>
> If I'm capable of this level of attention to detail then how are the 
> makers of "Impact" capable of getting something on the air that 
> includes a fallen lunar meteorite crater that is so magnetic it 
> disrupts a compass from a distance? I mean, if that's supposed to show 
> some sort of research into meteorites it pays lipservice only. I want 
> to go round and bite their ankles.
>
> And don't get me started on the meteors burning all the way to the 
> ground or shooting down meteor fragments with F-15 fighters. 
> ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!
>
> At least Space 1999, had a the excuse of naievety to much of it.
> Anyone remember the scene in 3rd Rock From the Sun where they were 
> laughing at Star Wars' depiction of space? "Impact" would have them in 
> apoplexy.
>
>
> --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like a 
>> really, really, really big pizza pie
>> To: cynapse at charter.net, Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 7:43 PM
>> Hi, Darren, List,
>>
>> The commentator who thinks this
>> sets a new low for American television
>> and astronomical science was obviously
>> fortunate enough to have missed the
>> series "Space 1999" (to name only one).
>>
>>
>> Sterling K. Webb
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Garrison" 
>> <cynapse at charter.net>
>> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:21 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like
>> a really, really,really big pizza pie
>>
>>
>> > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/15/if-i-watch-this-i-hope-the-moon-will-hit-the-earth/
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