Rain?

[altivo]

The weather radar says it's raining here, but you can't prove it by me. We could use some rain now actually. It's amazing how very dry things get after just a couple of weeks. I hope the torrential rains of June aren't about to give way to total drought. For one thing, that might mean no second cutting of hay, which would be disastrous.

The library sounded like a day care center run amok for most of the day. I'm not sure where all the screaming two year olds came from. Fortunately I could just try to concentrate on reducing the mountain of music CDs I've had sitting on my desk for months. It's almost down to a mole hill now.

New Scientist had a list of alternate first words to replace Armstrong's well-known "One small step..." statement. I found a couple of them all too true:

"One small step for a man, impossible for a woman since none were allowed on this mission..."

"One small step for a man, one giant leap for conspiracy theorists everywhere..."

"One small step ... [crunch] ... Oops, sorry little fella, I didn't see you there..."

Colorado bumper sticker reported by Rhaenpony: "Get real. Do you think your Jesus would buy a gun and vote Republican?"

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The kind of questions everyone wants to ask (I think...)

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

So tell me, Alt, do you...

1: ...think people really went to the moon?

2: ...believe humans will ever be able to live on the moon?

3: ...think golf might actually be a cool sport if it was played on the moon? How about bowling? Tennis?

Re: The kind of questions everyone wants to ask (I think...)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

1. I dont "think," I know it. I've seen far too much evidence to consider the "conspiracy" theory to be anything more than an absurdity.

2. Small numbers of humans could live on the moon, but it would be a tenuous and risky existence. At present we have no economic justification that would support such an effort. However, if gold or some other desirable substance were found there in significant quantities, you'd see expeditions launched very quickly.

3. Golf is just plain silly as far as I'm concerned. Bowling never had any appeal either, and tennis wouldn't work without massive rule changes, such that it would become something else entirely.

Re: It's hard not to revel in the absurd.

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

1: Personally, I fail to see the signifigance of either, but it amuses me to no end that a conspiracy theory around the moon landing may well one day overshadow the actual event, assuming it happened ;) The ones about the JFK assassination make me sad, but these make me chuckle. And, yes, according to it's definition, you "know" it happened ;)

2: Tenuous indeed; I often imagine it only being possible if they dig up vast chunks of the Earth and take them with them, then use them to attempt to grow Earth vegetation in space in what would have to amount to pressurized greenhouses.

3: ^_^ Sports to me are silly indeed, but I'd like to see the sight of someone whack a golf ball off into space- I'm curious if it would just fly off totally unimpeded... Bowling offers even greater potential there, for the same reasons. Obviously tennis would have to change, maybe into something more like ping pong merged with racquetball.