Artemis is behind the moon and we have the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.

Everyone, monkey masks, NOW

Point Blank poster by Bronisław Zelek, 1970

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green…” It’s time for some color theory… [bethmathews.substack.com]

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NASA Issues Formal Apology For 1969 Genocide Of Moon Natives WASHINGTON—Saying the long-overdue gesture was a step towards atoning for the space agency’s past transgressions, NASA issued a formal apology Wednesday for the 1969 genocide of the moon’s native popu...

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NASA Announces Plan To Put Moon On Mars By 2040 WASHINGTON—Saying the ambitious new project would be a historic, once-in-a-generation leap forward in the annals of space exploration, NASA announced Friday its plan to put the moon on Mars by 2040. “...

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NASA Worried Moon Won’t Remember Them WASHINGTON—In a press conference Monday, NASA administrator Bill Nelson confirmed the biggest concern agency officials had about returning to the moon was that it might not remember them. “It’s been, ...

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Anyone else just a little stressed out by all the dangling cables just begging to be snagged on? #artemis

Would be quite funny if the first thing Artemis sees is hundreds of residents of China’s lunar colony waving up at them.

Just the second panel I reckon.

something something something The Waterboys

The How and Why Wonder Book of the Moon, 1963

One Wedding and a Quarter of a Funeral

Camera Buff poster by Andrzej Pagowski, 1979

No End poster by Andrzej Pagowski, 1985

Bugs Bunny lifting Clark Gable’s schtick from It Happened One Night (1934) is responsible for the whole rabbits-love-carrots myth. Apparently they’re way too high in sugar to be a staple part of their diet.

You just have to say an oeuf is an oeuf

In summary: CARROTS ARE A LIE

Orange carrots are a relatively new development, due to selective breeding by Dutch farmers in the 16th and 17th centuries, likely to honor the House of Orange.

Carrots Can't Help You See in the Dark. Here's How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the Royal Air Force relied on top-secret radar

And the whole “carrots help you see in the dark” thing was WWII propaganda to both encourage home-grown veg during rationing and as a mask for to distract from the development of radar.

Bugs Bunny lifting Clark Gable’s schtick from It Happened One Night (1934) is responsible for the whole rabbits-love-carrots myth. Apparently they’re way too high in sugar to be a staple part of their diet.

Last Year at Marienbad poster by Masakatsu Ogasawara, 1983

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The How and Why Wonder Book of the Moon, 1963

Hot Rod Magazine, 1949