# Americans: did you know what the moon was before 7/20/69? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854 "2011-03-16T00:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/61 "2011-03-16T19:41:10Z")
Merging with the similar lunar thread. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/62 "2011-03-16T20:00:53Z")
As for Pluto: of course I knew what Pluto was. Mickey’s dog is an icon of American lore. Whaddya take us for, maroons? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/63 "2011-03-16T20:23:49Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Merging with the similar lunar thread. Good idea. Because that makes it a lot more confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/64 "2011-03-16T20:24:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > As for Pluto: of course I knew what Pluto was. Mickey’s dog is an icon of American lore. Whaddya take us for, maroons? Is it true he was gay? ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/65 "2011-03-16T20:53:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > As for Pluto: of course I knew what Pluto was. Mickey’s dog is an icon of American lore. Whaddya take us for, maroons? Yeah but if Pluto’s a dog what’s Goofy??? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/66 "2011-03-16T21:06:20Z")
Goofy? Wasn’t he fooling around with Minnie at one point? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/67 "2011-03-16T21:28:45Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > And to answer the question: only sorta kinda. But only because until '72 my parents made me go to bed every night at sundown, so I never had the chance. That would be funny if the only way to see the Moon is after the sun is down and before it comes up again. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/68 "2011-03-16T21:35:47Z")
I did, & I was a raging Space Program fan & supporter. And still would be, if we still had a space program. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/69 "2011-03-16T22:40:34Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Goofy? Wasn’t he fooling around with Minnie at one point? When Mickey said that Minnie was fucking Goofy, she didn’t mean that he was acting crazy. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/70 "2011-03-16T23:05:30Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I had it covered early on, after the green alien chick looked at Captain Kirk quizzically and inquired, “what is this . . . thing . . . you humans call . . . _love_?” Woah! I said I was ‘human’. I didn’t say I was a ‘girl’. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/71 "2011-03-16T23:09:59Z")
I suspect that at least a third of the people on this board were born after the moon landing. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/72 "2011-03-16T23:20:33Z")
I knew there was a moon, but I thought it was a big pizza pie, the way it hit my eye. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/73 "2011-03-16T23:23:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Certainly people should have known what the Moon was.It was in that George Melies silent film “A Trip to the Moon”, and there was the Heinlein movie \*\*Destination: Moon[/B, sorta based on his novel _Rocket Ship Galileo_, about a trip to the moon. Not to mention **rocket Ship X-M** , **Rocket to the Moon** , **Cat Women of the Moon** , **Hercule versus the Moon Men** and, of course, **2001: a Space Odyssey** , with its lengthy sequence featuring a trip to the moon. The Moon featured prominently in the posters for many of these. True, but it was clearly a fictional place, just like Vulcan. In one movie it had a big eye, in one it had Selenites living in caves, and in one it had a big colony. And, in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” it had a river. Really, who could believe in a place like that? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/74 "2011-03-17T00:11:50Z")
Hence the strongly implied impossibility of Mrs. Gorsky’s proposition. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/75 "2011-03-17T01:08:22Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > > [@JRDelirious](#): > > > > Would enjoy it more if I knew what was the parody or referenced même… > > The what, now? It’s like a meme, only the same. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/76 "2011-03-17T01:22:48Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Woosh is the sound the moon makes when it’s full. What sound does a new moon make? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/77 "2011-03-17T01:47:52Z")
Hah, the moon landing was faked! I knew what it was because I saw a documentary about lassoing it made girls lose their panties. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/78 "2011-03-17T01:54:46Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > What sound does a new moon make? 😛 It sounds like Duran Duran. But only on Mondays. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/79 "2011-03-17T02:42:07Z")
You people are loony. ---
**Author:** ![CTburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@CTburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CTburns)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854/80 "2011-03-17T03:01:14Z")
I knew it was a sattalite that revolved around earth and that it needed to be explored by brave men who were willing to go into the unknown, and secure for us our first look at material removed from the moon [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-did-you-know-what-the-moon-was-before-7-20-69/574854.md?page=5)