Maggie's Farm

I don't suppose NASA will mind my posting this ancient clip of the first "moon landing" (ha-ha, wink-wink).  I'm sure they'd hate to see those ugly 'hoax' rumors start up again.

"NASA CENSORS BLOGGER - WHY??" screams the New York Post.

No, along with their global warming hoax, I'm sure NASA will want to keep this baby free from any controversy and safely under wraps.  We won't be bothered as long as we toe the party line and at least pretend it happened.

With that said, this clip is a refreshing breath of air from the usual frenzied documentary-style show, where the scene changes every 2.1 seconds and you rarely get a chance to just sit there and contemplate the damn thing.

If you're really old and were alive back in the 80's, you might remember those airplane shows where each 1-hour episode would be on a specific plane.  It'd be on some ancient WW II bomber and there'd be endless minutes of it just... flying... along.

No machine guns a'blazing, no enemy fighters on the attack, no 500-pounders being dropped, no narrator blathering away; just the big plane lumbering along and the drone of the engines.  Using the same camera angle.  For minutes upon end.  You had to be a real lover of flying to watch those shows — but for those of us who were, it was terrific.

This reminds me of that.