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Subject: Trip to the Moon
Original Message 1/15 12-Feb-03 @ 06:25 PM - Trip to the Moon
The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people: "What are these guys in the big suits doing?" One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to the moon.
When his son relayed this comment, the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, "Why certainly!" and told an underling to get a tape recorder.
The Navajo elder's comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously but he refused to translate.
So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message:
"Watch out for these pricks. They have come to steal your land."
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Message 4/15 12-Feb-03 @ 07:29 PM - RE: Trip to the Moon
Message 7/15 13-Feb-03 @ 07:58 AM - RE: Trip to the Moon
please explain this one to me(in simple layman terms, since i'm an idiot):
"Kepler also gave a name to the small bodies that Galileo reported circling Jupiter. Kepler called them "satellites" after a term used by Roman for hangers-on who fawned on rich men and constantly circled them in the hope of being invited to dinner."
sounds like a true description of myself, innit ?
in "Our world in space" Robet McCall/Isaac Asimov, New York Graphic Society Ltd., Greenwich, Connecticut.1974 foreword by Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
(kewl fawckin' pictures by the way)
Message 8/15 13-Feb-03 @ 09:58 AM - RE: Trip to the Moon
Message 9/15 13-Feb-03 @ 11:16 PM - RE: Trip to the Moon
I'm reading Cosmos for the first time, yes I know its been around for ages. But damn that guy knows how to keep you interested.
Is the Aricibo radio telescope (SETI) still sending out messages ? You never know. A thousand generations later we may get a reply, it will say "hello ? who the f*cks this ? no, I think you have the wrong number"
Message 10/15 13-Feb-03 @ 11:43 PM - RE: Trip to the Moon
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