moon bombing

What did the moon ever do to us?

If yer goin' around moonin' folks, Dys, you must be bombed . . .

Oil?

Protection from the barbarian horde?

I don't think NASA used the term "moon bombing," but I do admit that the Fox news headline make this a hellova lot more entertaining.

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Being in the ship would have been even more spectacular, but I'm betting their were no windows.

If there were astronauts there to observe, they would haven gotten bombed on the moon.

Ooops -- and I used "their" for "they're" -- my gramadramatical error.

In Texas we just write "thar."

Latest photograph of the moon bombing:

But that bombing was made by the French..

... while the Germans had a different kind of bomb ...

Why is that girl all dressed up like a German used car salesman? She looks like she's afixin' to sing . . .

Well, that's how we Germans wanted to get the man on moon on our side. In 1929.

Frau im Mond is a pretty good film. I encourage everyone interested in science fiction to watch it.

All the good early sci-fi movies were German. One of our early offerings? "Just Imagine," quaint and silly, albeit with some adequate special effects, and it's a musical comedy!

Frau im Mond is rather prescient in some spots, but other parts are just comical. As the space travelers emerge from the rocket ship, I couldn't help thinking of a scene from Flesh Gordon (the X-rated sci fi film -- yes, I know, I'm ashamed to admit it), where the scientist sets foot on a strange planet, takes a deep breath, and says "ah, there's oxygen here, we can breathe!"

The movie also, I think establishes some elements that would become standard in future sci fi films. For instance, early on a young boy who is fascinated with space flight is introduced. Immediately, I thought: "he's going to stow away on board the rocket." Sure enough, he does exactly that. Really, don't they have any security for these space launches?

Space launches with security? Isn't that something like pre-9/11 airports and airplanes?

Sci-fi is still sometimes unintentionally funny because of ignoring basic physics one learned in high school. When the US began to make some serious sci-fi, we got "Destination Moon" right out of the starting gate which was reasonably accurate science for that time, but in a rush to beat it to the box office, the shoestring studio Lippert Pictures cranked out "Rocketship XM" and, of course, decided Mars had a breathable atmosphere. Well, after all, Ray Bradbury wrote a novel (actually more of a strung-together anthology of short stories) that depended on breathable air on Mars. It's remarkable that "The Day the Earth Stood Still" got produced at all and "The Thing" was more of a horror flick than a sci-fi film (although I do remember it scaring the pants of of me -- especially when they open that door!) Then there was the extremely dry period until "2001."

Frau im Mond, as I recall, had a real physics head-scratcher. In the film, the scientists figured out that the moon had breathable atmosphere on one side (either the dark side or the bright side -- I can't remember which). Now, if anyone can explain how a planet or satellite can have an atmosphere on only one side, I'd be curious to hear it.