Humans went to the Moon when, Jane?
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Dear The Age,
If you’re going to publish a story combining the nerd-friendly topics of space travel and Lego, “Blockhead won’t Lego of his childhood dream”, please don’t get one of the most important dates in human history wrong:
Who’s the “blockhead” now?
The first human Moon landing (“delivery” of “humans to the Moon”) was, of course, in July 1969.
It is true that Apollo 8 did go around the Moon in December 1968, but it didn’t land, it didn’t “deliver” anyone or anything, and don’t try to get out of your cockup with such flimsy sophistry.
And a suggestion for any writers who think that this sort of general knowledge is irrelevant in the age of Wikipedia, that not knowing the date (or at least the year) of the first human Moon landing is completely unnecessary – for everyone from Moffat’s new Sherlock Holmes to CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHO THEY ARE – please remember this. It could save you from looking silly in a newspaper, and having a snarky little blog post written about your mistake. That’s right: DISASTER.
Yours etc etc
PS I can’t see where I’ve made a similar embarrassing stuff-up in this post, but according to something like Muphry’s Law there must be one.
Jeremy… I think reading too much Bolta et al has (understandably) made you awfully grumpy. Did you really need a PP article about what was probably a typo (8 key is next to the 9)?
Maybe.
OR IS IT JUST GENERAL IGNORANCE.
A typo’s one thing – but why didn’t a sub catch it? It should be like putting the start date of the second world war as 1929 or dating the New York WTC attack as September 2002. It should sort of leap out at you.
I know too many people who think knowing this particular basic date – one so fundamental to our technological progress as a species – is unimportant.
Also, I haven’t had lunch yet.
“but why didn’t a sub catch it?” Do they have sub’s these days? – spell check won’t pick it up!
I see that someone’s still clinging to that silly story that we actually went to the moon …
Oh, and anyone monitoring this blog for ammunition … that was a joke.
HUH? …he IS able to retrospectively edit his articles..perhaps we mistakenly assume he reads back the crap he writes.
‘perhaps we mistakenly assume he reads back the crap he writes.’… ahh rookie mistake!
In fairness to the rocket … it did actually TAKE them to the moon. That they chose not to get off the ship surely doesn’t undermine the achievement. So could it be said that the Saturn V did indeed “deliver” them? The astronauts just refused to stay there.
Matthew
It is much more fun to wait for the fish to bite before “letting on”.
LED lights, some lift off smoke and dry ice?
Sounds like one of those nuts that doesn’t believe the moon landings were real.
(But check the shadows)
But don’t diss Lego!
Sorry, Jeremy, but I think their “photograph of a black hole” was far more serious. Mainly because I got a hat-tip out of it.
Well, to be pedantic. The Saturn V of Apollo 11 did nothing more or nothing less than the Saturn V of Apollo 10. Its a “launch” vehicle after all, not a “delivery” vehicle.
Probably not quite as ‘rookie’ as believing it’s a typo or that it’s petty to question the credibility of someone who can’t get a simple date correct and fills pages questioning infinitely more qualified minds about their deductions about climate change.
right? ;-P
I believe you win this thread.
“I believe you win this thread.”
Yep. Strife, feel free to be pedantic again in future.
Zonks ago, they had a saturn rocket engine (or possibly the nozzle of one, can’t be sure) hanging from the ceiling of the powerhouse museum in sydney. Awesome.