On this day in 1971, on the second day of the Apollo 15 lunar mission, astronauts dug up a really old rock which, of course, they named "The Genesis Rock"
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On this day in 1971, on the second day of the Apollo 15 lunar mission, astronauts dug up a really old rock which, of course, they named "The Genesis Rock"
The so-called Genesis rock was found by lunar module pilots David Scott and James Irwin when they dug into the slope of Spur crater, on the…
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." -Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut may have it right for most of us, but not all of us spend all of our time on Earth. A select dozen of us, in fact, have made it, as Cat Power would sing, to
The Moon.
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--The key scientist who helped NASA plan and identify the Moon landing location for Apollo 11
--Currently is a leading expert in the study of deserts and how to find and sustain water in such environments in the Arab world
Two years before America's historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission was…
The moon is a rock.
But it's also Selene, Artemis, Diana, Isis, the lunar deities; an eldritch clock by which we measure our growth and fertility; home of an old man in the West and a rabbit in the East; the site of countless imaginary voyages; a long-believed trigger of lunacy (luna...see?). It…
Ironically one of the astronauts of Apollo 15, James Irwin, became a Genesis loon: a YEC who hunted for Noah's Ark.
The arc is the only biblical miracle you can see from space. If you look close enough and kind of squint.
Yay, happy Sample #15415 Day! I think we just found what we came for. :)