"We are on the fucking moon" (video)

[Video Link] Yesterday was the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon in 1969, the first time humans ever set foot on another world. Today, we discover this long-lost footage and audio from that historic moment. (thanks, inkfumes!)

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millie fink

Fucking heroes, those fucking guys, I tell ya.

(Also, sounds like looped Boards of Fucking Canada in the background there…)
- http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson
  
  Nope, it’s Brian Eno, from “Ambient 4 : On Land”, may favorite Eno ambient album.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4T_TXn1Sqs&feature=relmfu
  - millie fink
    
    thanks, nice fucking catch!
    - http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson
      
      Why they didn’t use Eno’s “Apollo” soundtrack (which would make a lot more sense) is beyond me.
      - chaopoiesis
        
        Using Apollo would lose the “birds singing on the moon” joke.
  - http://www.facebook.com/william.mccafferty.58 William McCafferty
    
    Brian FUCKING Eno!
mobobo

I counted 11 fuck/fuckings, but my favourite was the chicken basket linked to some son of man stuff.

FUCK: what a wonderful fuck fucking clip – ta
karlfrankjr

I’m pretty sure this is fake and based on an old Onion article.
- malindrome
  
  Some people will just never be convinced that the moon landings were real. The Onion didn’t even exist in 1969!
  - http://profiles.google.com/churba Churba S
    
    He kinda muffed the reply, but what he meant was that the Audio is word-for-word based on an old onion article, and thus that the audio was fake, not that the moon landings are fake.
    - malindrome
      
      Wait, I still don’t get it. Could you explain it again?
      - EH
        
        Before we start, are you familiar with the writings of Anton Chekhov?
      - http://profiles.google.com/churba Churba S
        
        Video linked above takes real moon landing footage and uses the linked onion article as the script for the fake audio.
        
        http://www.members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html
        
        Don’t look at me, dude, I’m just re-iterating what Karl said, since he didn’t reply to tell you that, but made a new comment presumably by accident.
      - Wreckrob8
        
        @EH Chekhov wrote short stories. What could be simpler?
      - malindrome
        
        Ok, I think I got it …
        
        Nope, I lost it.
    - Petzl
      
      The jury’s still out on whether we landed on the moon. It’s still only a theory. My (home) school taught both sides of this issue.
      - Mark
        
        The controversy. Both sides of the controversy.
  - kiptw
    
    Nonsense. I’m looking at a front page from 1765 right this minute.
- DevinC
  
  (1) You don’t say.
  (2) It looks like this clip was actually from The Onion, not an imitation: http://www.theonion.com/video/holy-shit-man-walks-on-fucking-moon,28819/ At least, the audio sounds the same to me.
- http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
  
  Yeah it was one of their “Onion in History” articles.
- http://twitter.com/matcatastrophe mat catastrophe
  
  The spoken audio is directly lifted from the “Our Dumb Century” audiobook, which as the tape states, is for lazy assholes who want to later perpetrate to have read the whole thing.
schlocktober

Somehow this parody audio really conveys the magnitude of this event. I am moved.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  It’s more fitting, innit.
  - BunnyShank
    
    Its the solemnity of the actors delivery, as though there is no other possible time when “fuck” could be used appropriately, as right there on the fucking moon.
Andrew Singleton

Well who’d have fucking known huh?
winkybb

Yeah, it’s based on an old Onion article. Still as funny as the first time, though.
Wreckrob8

Maybe there were more fucking beeps when I rushed home from school age eight to watch the landing on TV. That’s not the way I fucking remember it.
inkfumes

“chirp” ahhhhh…. holy shit tranquility….
lewis_stoole

eno was here
karlfrankjr

I didn’t say the moon landing wasn’t real. I am just saying that word for word, this audio is made from an old edition of The Onion. Page 113 in the Book, “Our Dumb History” -
http://www.members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html
karlfrankjr

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-Century-Presents-Headlines/dp/0609804618
Russ McClay

I was about 14 when man landed on the moon. After watching the coverage on television..past the “That’s one step…”… I went outside and gazed at the half moon and just marveled that there were humans there.

This audio is obviously bogus…those guys were pros, it was the 60′s, saying fuckin’ this and fuckin’ that wasn’t as classy like it seems to be now.
- millie fink
  
  Oh is it classy now?
  
  Well, fuckin A then!
  
  (Actually seems kinda passe to me, and lazy.)
- flickerKuu
  
  I disagree, people had sailor’s mouths in the 60′s, they just didn’t dare say it on TV.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Hmm. I remember the 60s as a time when even ‘hell’ was an obscenity.
laprofe63

FUCKING LOVE IT!! <3 The Onion (& whoever put this together too)!
Heevee Lister

Sophomoric.
bobk

There’s a video series called “The Lonely Astronaut,” interviewing one of the astronauts we left on the moon back in 1972. They’re each about 2 min: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svAQ6BCIgxg
chaopoiesis

Jesus is not a fucking swear word!
- Wreckrob8
  
  Jesus fucking Christ!
  - Ipo
    
    Is that the holy duality?
finette

Raise your hand if you clicked on the comments just to see how many people yelled FAAAAAKE!!!1!!!!!
http://gristleoflife.wordpress.com/ Analog Kid

“Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket”

I nearly pissed my pants.
HJB

We ought discourage the publication of fake material such as this – unless the fact that it is a fake is clearly endorsed on the material for the viewer to see. Free speech may require that such material be permitted; but websites are free not to promote it.
- Ipo
  
  In case people get dumber and dumber and in a few generations nobody will know The Onion from Murdoch?
  - http://twitter.com/Kroeghe Kroeghe
    
    Well, yeah. Kinda.
Preston Sturges

Neil Armstrong, working blue…..
Preston Sturges

Giant steps are what you take
On the fucking moon
I hope my legs don’t break
On the fucking moon
We could walk forever
On the fucking moon
We could live together
On the fucking, on the fucking moon
http://techdweeb.com univac

There is, of course, the excellent Evolution Control Committee’s take on The Fucking Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhWZ4gNqPP0
flickerKuu

Response to Petzl: Funny. The Jury is out only for people who don’t read, research or critically think correctly. I’ve heard some pretty amazing ideas on how we “faked” the landing, but none of the reasons were good enough to deny the other facts that we did. Sorry, we most likely really did land on it. Give me a crazy piece of evidence of why we didn’t and I’ll tell you the proper rebuttal. You can’t always just look at two sides of an issue. you have to take the 2nd side’s issue and give it back to the first side where they then tear it apart.
- bnschlz
  
  If NASA were willing to fake great accomplishments they’d have a second one by now.
  http://xkcd.com/1074/
- finette
  
  Breathe a little. Petzl was joking.
JudeJackson

What’s the original source of this video? The dialogue at least is from The Onion, and I’ve seen video posted recently on their website with this, but the first time I heard the audio was from Evolution Control Committee.
http://twitter.com/DonLKaufman Don Kaufman

Yes, pretty bogus. Based on the very true statement “there are no atheists in foxholes” I do not believe these folks would have been behaving like this.
- Ipo
  
  Not true. Been there.
- http://ravenlunatick.wordpress.com/ ravenlunatick
  
  Who are these people then?
  
  http://www.militaryatheists.org/
niktemadur

Eagle: “Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed, lol”
Houston: “LOL!”
Eagle: “ROTFLMFAO!”
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  Houston: “WTFBBQ you guys are totally liek on the MOON”
  Eagle: “How leet is this?! We pwn all.”
  - Ipo
    
    All your moonbase are fucking belong to us.
benher

There is no fucking issue, and there is no fucking controversy. Cocking up any and all moon threads with the word “fake” is prohibited under penalty of fucking zero-gravity waterboarding.

I’m serious. If anyway ever tries to talk to me in person with one iota of seriousness about helmet reflections and flag wrinkles, I am going to punch them in the fucking throat… maybe once for every Apollo Astronaut.

Houston, we are all out of F-Bombs.
- http://twitter.com/JustAdComics JustAdComics
  
  Thank you. :) I had the unfortunate “pleasure” of working with a gentleman who was (and still is) convinced that it was all a hoax. I eventually gave up trying to get him to realize he was being a tinfoil hat-wearing idiot.
voiceinthedistance

This type of post on BB is published periodically to flush all the idiots out into the open in the comments section. After performing admirably, I think we are good now for another couple of weeks now.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It’s called an idiot filter. Rob has a particular talent for constructing them.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Kelly/692448753 Jim Kelly

From Wikipedia (and also recounted, much more wittily, by Tom Wolfe): “The Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles (“International Association of Turtles”, “Turtle Club”,[1] or similar title) started as an informal “drinking club” between World War II pilots… Once inducted, a member must reply to the question, “Are you a turtle?” with “You bet your sweet ass I am.” Otherwise, the member must buy the questioner a drink…

During the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission (part of the United States space program), astronaut Wally Schirra was asked by a ground controller whether he was a turtle. Not wanting to use vulgar language while his communications were being broadcast worldwide, he temporarily stopped transmitting while he gave the required response.

Deke Slayton, a mere 3 minutes into Sigma 7′s flight, came on the radio, which was open for everyone to hear, and asked, “Hey, Wally, are you a turtle?”. Schirra switched his mic from live to record and uttered the appropriate response. On the open line, he said, “Rog.”[4]”
http://profiles.google.com/macrumpton Michael Crumpton

That dialog seems far more likely than the laid back banter that was on the official recordings.
BluePlasticJess

This is definitely my favorite bit from the Our Dumb Century audio book. “Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket” has become a common exclamation around my house.

The “I Had A Really Weird Dream Last Night” speech from Martin Luther King Jr. is also hilarious.
j9c

Just wanted to post this here, even though I’m a bit late to the party:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPJCEHumvE&feature=bf_next&list=UUR9sFzaG9Ia_kXJhfxtFMBA

A tip of the hat to not just the staff and crews of the Apollo missions, all of them, but to the a place and time, a people and a government, who thought that space exploration was and is a worthy human endeavor.

Can’t wait for the anniversary celebration of the Apollo 13 mission. That was truly amazing.