Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The moon, redux
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Everyone wrote and talked and showed pictures about the Apollo 11 anniversary, yesterday. But several different websites put the moment when Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface (land previously only seen as a big man with a lot of cheese, and later visited by Wallace and Grommit for that very reason (ha ha)), was somewhere bewteen 2:56 a.m. and 3:39 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time today, July 21, 1969. Yes, on the east coast of America that was nine-ish p.m. on July 20th which is the common wisdom moment that gets all the hoopla - but it's amazing and a bit disappointing, I have to admit, to realize that even something seemingly factual like the time of the occurrence of a historical event is American-northeast-centric.
Labels: anniversaries, madness, modern times
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