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Mostly Mute Monday: A final view from the Moon (Synopsis)

By esiegel on March 16, 2015.

“Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.” -Eugene Cernan, last human on the Moon

It's been nearly 43 years since humans have set foot on the Moon, and yet we've never forgotten what it looks like.

Image credit: NASA / Apollo 17 / East view of station 1, via http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/. Image credit: NASA / Apollo 17 / East view of station 1, via http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/.

Yet nothing that anyone can describe -- either about what it was like or what we've done while we were there -- can take the place of what our final, highest-at-the-time resolution views can tell us.

Image credit: NASA / Apollo 17 / Harrison Schmitt, via http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html. Image credit: NASA / Apollo 17 / Harrison Schmitt, via http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html.

Go experience the whole thing for our Mostly Mute Monday!

Also, thanks to an amazing translation by Frederic Conrotte, one of our entries is in French now! (Audio, too.) Check out the full podcast below!

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Watch for yourselves and see if these NASA PEOPLE are talking bullshit when they CLEARLY, and without a shadow of a doubt, EXPLAIN WHY: NO ONE HAS EVER, EEEVERRRR GONE TO THE MOON!!!!
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In case you're not interested in the FLAT EARTH theory, than just watch the first 40 seconds, then skip to 4:10 on video timer. To those MANY of you who have still not seen this video, all I can say is: Sorry to burst your bubble!
NO MOON LANDINGS OR WALKING ON IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eJLag-n33c