Red and Rover by Brian Basset for July 24, 2021

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    ETB  over 2 years ago

    Seems like Red’s torso has been eclipsed thanks to his black shirt and the night sky!

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    Strob Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Rover’s interpretation supposedly saved Columbus who told his captors that he’d make the moon disappear (the timing sounds awfully convenient.)

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    [Unnamed Reader - 8bb645]  over 2 years ago

    Better go during the full moon, gives you a bigger target, Red.

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    robertdkrebs Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Gotta love Rover, kinda like that Wilson guy on Home Improvement. BTW, sold a lot of Telescopes in 69. Grandfather bought us one. All the kids in the neighborhood were trying to see the American flag the astronauts left, ha.

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    Doug K  over 2 years ago

    Every month the moon seems to fade away and comes back.

    When it goes from Full Moon to New Moon – it “vanishes”. Then it reappears and grows – and then diminishes and disappears once again.

    It waxes and wanes. Will it be waning when they finally go?

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    DaveG1960  over 2 years ago

    It’s a bit like landing on the sun at night for safety….

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    Catfeet Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Will there be enough green cheese for both Red and Rover when they arrive?

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    WentHulk  over 2 years ago

    Rover the moon doesn’t disappear during a lunar eclipse.

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    Yakety Sax  over 2 years ago

    Where’s Bill Nye when you need him?

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    Tentoes  over 2 years ago

    Hmm. That WOULD be cool to have somebody, or something, on the moon with a camera during an eclipse!

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    Calvinist1966  over 2 years ago

    Rover may have been thinking of a nuclear war when he first asked if the moon would still be there. Nuclear war was still a very real risk at the time of the Space Race although fortunately it led to less money being spent on nuclear missiles and more spent on space travel. When the Space Race ended in the early 1970s, East and West went back to concentrating on nuclear weapons.

    As I grew up in the 1970s and ‘80s, I wasn’t particularly worried about the effects of a nuclear war on the moon but on life on earth. Luckily, this was enough to deter the actual use of nuclear weapons although large amounts of cash was spent on them so that the threat involved “enough weapons to destroy the world many times over.”

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    WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago

    He has an excellent point! The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court made the sun disappear until they acknowledged him as a powerful wizard!

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    mymontana  over 2 years ago

    Nobody is more amazing than Rover!!!

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Apollo 16 found and photographed the landing site of Apollo 12. I expect the landing site of Apollo 11 will be made into a historical site if we ever get back to the moon.

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      over 2 years ago

    Couldn’t agree more, Rover.

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    ChrisTrey  over 2 years ago

    Red, you need to go right before a so-called “Super Moon”: when it’s seen as a full moon from the earth and is seen to be even bigger as it’s closer to the Earth at that time. Save a day or so on the trip. But you better study hard and learn your math so you can calculate the correct heading so you and Rover in your space ship don’t miss the moon as it does move in it’s orbit. Orbital mechanics are well beyond me.

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    heathcliff2  over 2 years ago

    Some people want to disappear it forever. The same people who want to add particles (potentially dangerous to our heath and our planet) to our atmosphere.

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    SteveLederman  over 2 years ago

    You’re a lunar-tic!

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