Tag: Moon real estate
“To the Moon, Alice!”
by Bucky Lewis on Jul.21, 2009, under About laughter, The Funny Farm
Hard to believe it was 40 years ago that we landed on the moon. Where does the time go? It’s ironic that Ralph was talking about sending Alice to the moon back when a lot of us were just -or hadn’t been - born yet. I think that us folks that do remember where we were when it happened were part of the boomer generation, or the tail end of it.
- We all know this scene and what Ralph was saying to his wife.
- “One of these days Alice!”
It was perfect timing. Television had matured just in time for most of us to see the grainy and blurry images of a NH boy Neil Armstrong stepping and then hopping on the moon, shocking the Russians. It was the ultimate coup for the US to get there first, and we did. But what does it mean now?
Who owns the moon? Do we have any more rights to it than any other country?
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The Lunar Registry
That’s right. The Lunar Registry has sold pieces of “Moon Pie” real estate to approximately 37,000,000 people. That is not a typo. I guess they have not read the Outer Space Treaty that was ratified at the UN by most nations including the US back in 1967. It basically says that the moon is owned by no one and everyone. I guess it’s the old adage of access. Look at how we flourished after Lewis and Clark. If you get there first and find a way to mine it through commerce… Bingo.
Access is after all how we remember all of those “I remember where I was when” stories. All seeming to revolve again, back to the technology of the time: television. Evrything was etched and burned more into our collective brains through the images that unfolded through the tube: Kennedies, King, Lennon, Olympics, the moon, and to infinity and beyond.
For me, my development-through-access came from watching the true characters that made the face of Funny on television: Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Bennie Hill. I can go on and on. Such as this great live blooper sketch from Red Skelton:
And one more gem from another great character comedian and talent: Frankie Fontaine. Full circle back to Jackie Gleason to close out this blog.
