What Neil Armstrong Saw...

...after shouldering Buzz Aldrin out of the way and making one small step for man on the moon 36 years ago today.

Google Maps are now intergalactic. Go here.

Comments

whizler | July 20, 2005, 4:56pm | #

Be sure to zoom all the way in :)

mediageek | July 20, 2005, 4:57pm | #

Nice.

Also of relevant interest, via the FAQ:

The Google Copernicus Center is hiring

Mo | July 20, 2005, 4:58pm | #

Bitchin!

Baylen | July 20, 2005, 5:00pm | #

I can't get the driving directions to work.

blah | July 20, 2005, 5:00pm | #

still optional to believe they were really there...google just in on the secret scheme of deception. :)

kmw | July 20, 2005, 5:07pm | #

ok, that's just cheesy.

Brian Courts | July 20, 2005, 5:08pm | #

...after shouldering Buzz Aldrin out of the way

Heh. Too funny, Nick. Actually I heard Armstrong tied the shoelaces on Buzz's moon boots together to slow him down. In fact, if you listen carefully to the tapes, right after you hear "the Eagle has landed" in the background you can very faintly hear Buzz saying "What the... damn you Neal!"

Brian Courts | July 20, 2005, 5:14pm | #

And if you listen very closely you'll realize he's actually saying "...damn you Neil" ;) oops

Supernatural Rabbit Scribe | July 20, 2005, 5:29pm | #

Whizler, you've done your good deed for the day. Yes, do zoom all the way in! It's just as I've always suspected...

Slainte' | July 20, 2005, 5:41pm | #

Intergalactic? C'mon, the Moon's practically in our back yard (in fact it was right over mine last night). It's not even out of the Solar System.
But ok, yeah, it's a cool new google feature.

mediageek | July 20, 2005, 5:43pm | #

Be sure to zoom all the way in :)

You have to wonder how the peeps at the Creationism conference will interepret this.

Jeff | July 20, 2005, 5:43pm | #

Traquility has a Starbucks?

The Mad Scientist | July 20, 2005, 5:56pm | #

According to The Onion's coverage for July 21, 1969, Armstrong's first words from the moon were, "Holy living fuck... Are you fucking believing this? Over." Opon stepping onto the surface he was reported to have said, "I abso-fucking-lutely am standing on the surface of the fucking moon. I am talking to you from the goddamned fucking moon. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket. Over."

I think it's about what I would have said myself.

NoStar | July 20, 2005, 6:02pm | #

or was it "Damn you, kneel!"

Pro Libertate | July 20, 2005, 6:57pm | #

If you haven't seen it already, check out this Quicktime panorama of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The site has other moon landing panoramas as well as ones for various locations on this planet.

Born Again Iconoclast | July 20, 2005, 7:17pm | #

Thanks, Google. My friends and I always wondered if Neil Armstrong was lactose intolerant or not ...

Jim Walsh | July 20, 2005, 9:14pm | #

I heard that when Armstrong stepped out on the lunar surface the first thing he did was to pray...because from there, it's only a local call! (Ba-da-bump!) Goodnight, everybody...

Warren | July 20, 2005, 10:31pm | #

Nuclear physics, democracy, the surrealist movement, or pick your own favorite, I still say the highest achievement of mankind, history’s greatest moment ever, was… wait for it; Alan Shepard working on his short game.

Eddy | July 20, 2005, 10:33pm | #

or was it "Damn you, kneel!"

Sounds like a priest from high school.

Warren | July 20, 2005, 10:34pm | #

miles and miles and miles...

Rhywun | July 21, 2005, 1:13am | #

Google Maps don't work in Firefox >:|

Michael Geary | July 21, 2005, 2:29am | #

Huh? Of course Google Maps works in Firefox. Maybe something wrong with your Firefox installation. What problems do you run into?

Number 6 | July 21, 2005, 9:36am | #

Rhywun- They do work in Firefox(even on a Linux machine). You probably need to install the Java plug-in.

I've found FF to actually be compatible with more sites than IE.

Number 6 | July 21, 2005, 9:38am | #

Or, if you're running the no script extension, you may need to allow google.com to run scripts.

J Palchak | July 21, 2005, 10:17am | #

Surprised none of the "Moon Landing Hoaxers" made a comment about this.... :-)

Sean | July 21, 2005, 10:21am | #

Anybody else find it funny that, one H&R entry after taking a cheap shot at religious people for not being "scientific," the distance between the Earth and the Moon is characterized as "intergalactic?"

No? Just me? Oh. Carry on, then.

Pro Libertate | July 21, 2005, 10:49am | #

No, no, no, Nick is right. Observe:

"Galaxy" is Greek for milk.
The Moon is made of cheese.
The Earth and the Moon share a common composition.
Therefore, the Earth is made of cheese or other dairy product.

Result? Going from milk-based Earth to milk-based Luna is, in fact, "intergalactic" travel.

Cgee | July 21, 2005, 11:09am | #

I thought it was made of green cheese, not yellow. Guess you can't believe everything your parents tell you...

drf | July 21, 2005, 11:47am | #

"Blessed are the Cheesemakers"

Pro Libertate | July 21, 2005, 12:08pm | #

Exactly, drf.