h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What triumph of science and technology occured on July 21, 1969?

The first Human Being landed on the Moon, therefore being the first time a Human had left Earth & walked on another Heavenly Body.

Do we know that?
I say the Lunar Landing was a scham! The pictures are frauds!
(And the real answer must be something in agricultural technology...)

JAR, holding his position as zeropointer

er.....OK! Everyone is entitled to their opinion! You reminded me of a film called "Capricorn One" then....

"Capricorn One"? The name sounds familiar, but I can't really place it. Is it a conspiracy/sci-fi thriller?

Agree with St.GB (you runnaway minx, you )
Capricorn One? Silly but likeable film.

Yeah, and we watched it on an old black and white TV where you had to pull the back away a bit and tap the tube with a knitting needle to get the picture to work.

...to watch the moon landing, not Capricorn One.

Of courseI trust GB for having given the right answer (while I was in the shower) there's not much she doesn't know about space.

That's right, they faked the moon landings. And aliens have infiltrated 90% of the government, the CIA shot JFK and Formula One is done with Scalextrix cars in a barn in the west midlands....

Sorry, got a bit cynical there....

Yep GB is right. Moon landfall. And we should be getting a similar thing with Mars in 15 years or so, if the space agencies get their collective arses in gear.

`confused´ *a muse-speciality*

According to several sources Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon on July 20, 1969? One source, however, states July 21, 1969 at 2:56:15 AM (GMT? Could depend on time zones...???

But I found another piece of interest:
On July 21, 1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits.

Half a point?

Yeah, but the worst is the Jewish/Catholic/Satanist conspiracy. Did you know they pump gay-gas into peoples homes to stop them from reproducing!

(Did you know some people belive this stuff? That's scary..)

JAR, really a secret agent

An individual I know extremely well got lucky.(at a drive-in movie)

(not the correct answer? depends on your perspective.)

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July 1st, 1969 - Just one day after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Duke Ellington and a portion of his band performed a 10-minute composition on ABC-TV titled "Moon Maiden". The work featured piano, drums, bass and vocals.

Oh, come on Greebo, surely I've deserved half a point now?

Sorry, lost a detail there, should have been:

July 21st, 1969 - ...

Well, I think that since all time zones are 'measured' with respect to GMT (or "zulu time," as it's frequently called, despite a large distance between Greenwich, England and Zulu country ), it's pretty common to just mark heavenly and celestial events at GMT time just as a standard. Of course, 2:15am at GMT is still the day before here in the States (which is, of course, where the flight started from, and Houston being the time zone for mission control ...) I'd think July 21st is fine to say instead of the 20th - it all depends on where you were at the time, I guess. Funny old thing, time.

Ah...that was when I was squandering my tender youth.

Hang on the important fact is not which timezone Houston was in but what timezone the Moon was in. It had to be full and therefore night time or morning in one of the earth time zones.