They've already done an ark. How about Ezekiel's wheel instead?

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No i wouldn't work. They are on a secret mission to go see the Aliens on Jupiter and see if they have a good cheesecake recipie. Good cheescake recipies are the comodities of the universe.


I would think they should be flown by a ragtag highly trained team of rebellious and funny ex-postal clerks or bank tellers.

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[/b]Wouldnt it be "[bump]"?[b]

Well, no. If it were really on the moon the noise would be []. If an astronaut falls at Hadley Rille and there's no air, is there still a sound?

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If I understand correctly, sound on the Moon would be more of a personal experience. If our astronaut falls at Hadley Rille and hits his head on a rock he would certainly hear it transmitted through his helmet. (Boy, I think about this kind of stuff way too much).

That's why the EVA scenes in "2001" worked so well. All you heard was the hiss of the PLSS (or equivalent) and the astronaut's breathing.

This discussion takes me back to the old days playing "Rocket Ranger" on the Commodore Amiga. Chasing the zeppelins around the world, gathering the parts for the V-3 rocket and defeating the Nazi moon base.
If I'm not mistaken, this game character formed the basis for the movie "Rocketman".

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Ah, Senor Molinero, you stole my thunder!
Yes, I well remember battling Interplanetary Rocket-Propelled Nazis from the Moon - never managed to finish the game. And, didn't Joe Poyer write a novel that ended with a German pilot ending up on the Moon in a modified V2 rcoket?

For those of a more analytical bent, try reading "German Secret Weapons of the 2nd World War2", I. Hogg, Greenhill. This explains how the Nazi research and development establishment operated.

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Why does NASA and NAZI sound so similar?

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Do they? Oh boy, what great imaginations these hoax believers have. No wonder their hypotheses are so credible. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

But tell me, why do "Rusty Lander" and "nasty slander" sound so similar?

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That's because you don't pronounce it properly. It's 'Nassau'. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

This thread just made my day. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

I've bookmarked the loopy site (why, oh why, do these whackos think that only NASA could possibly know what the Moon is like? don't they realize there are scientists who don't work for NASA and even ones who *gasp* *shock* aren't American?) and I've been reading all of the hilarious replies.

For a model for your screenplay, you could go back to one of the geniuses of speculative fiction, Edgar Allen Poe. He was one of the first people to pull off a moon hoax, writing a "news article" which claimed that people had travelled to the Moon via balloon and discovered an alien race. He did it for a laugh, but got upstaged by a similar hoax and ended up simply revealing the truth about his own little hoax. Perhaps the premise of the movie could be that his hoax wasn't really a hoax and the Nazis later used that method to ascend to the Moon and establish a permanent base?

Why does NASA and NAZI sound so similar?

And this would prove ... ?

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NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration. Nazi stands for National Socialist (national, socialist, isn't that an oxymoron?). Both sound similar because they both begin with the word 'national'.

Yes, it's that simple.

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For those interested in the science fictional possibilities, I refer you to Stephen Baxter's books, "Traces" whcih has a number of stories on the theme of Germans getting a space program giong, and "Phase Space."

Also, Allen Steele wrote "the Jericho Iteration" based in parton the stories about John Harper Wilson about an American effort to keep the space program in the hands of the military, and how that might have yielded some successes -- and interestnig implications.

Unfortunately, this whole thread got off track because of a simple typo early on. Forget about doing a play or movie. Jerry Seinfeld owns all the rights--the original posting should have been:


Soup Nazis on The Moon!

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Senor Molinero said:
I think you're mistaken. The movie in question is, I believe, The Rocketeer. The Rocket Man is some cheesy movie about an astronaut going to Mars. The Rocketeer is about a rocket pack and racing around against the NAZI's, with Jennifer Connelly as the girlfriend.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102803

According to this site, the Rocketeer was first a comic book originated in 1981. (Warning: page loads with music.) The movie is definitely a direct descendant of the comic book - the look is the same, and the creator is credited on the movie.

"Rocket Ranger" may have been inspired by The Rocketeer.

Irishman wrote:

I must disagree. The Rocketeer is a direct descendant of the "Commander Cody" movie serials of the early 50s. Cody was "The Rocketman" and had a rocket pack, helmet, and flying suit very similar to that worn by "The Rocketeer" in the 1991 movie and the comic book cited earlier. Unfortunately, I am old enought to have seen the serials as a kid at the Saturday Matinees. Twenty cents got you a chapter of a serial, 10 cartoons, and a feature movie (usually 3d run).

The 1950 idea of flight control was a bit unsophisticated. Cody had a control box strapped to his chest. It had a toggle switch marked "ON --OFF," and a rotary switch marked "UP --DOWN." No avionics!

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Well, you could really say it was both then. The Rocketeer comic was no doubt inspired by the old movie serials, and the movie was based on the comic, so in essence the Rocketeer movie was based on the old serials.

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Hey, I remember when that comic went out I was in Canada at the time!

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all them bases on the moon with tens of thousand of ppl living there...i see a largely ignored problem. what about the cheese ?? do they think the cheese will last forever ?? and what kind of cheese is it now ?? runny german/swiss like or cardboard textured and tasteless like any american cheese.
i propose forming a group that would protest at the UN and american &amp; german embassies. if we don't speak out for the lunar cheese, who will ?

of course until a general meeting can be held, i will hold the post of preident, secretary and treasurer of the Lunar Cheese Preservation Society.
i wonder if CNN will put me on Larry King before moving on to more serious audiences like "C2C"...

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