Cavorite Gets its First Outing

[Channel Hopper]

Tagging this on since it seems relevant.

“There were two brackets on the experiment which held the solar panels folded while travelling to the moon. We got a ball pen and signed our names.. I signed my name and I thought, well, I’ll put ‘UK’. Then I thought, I’ll draw a little Union Flag.

“So we had a little Union Flag sketched onto there, installed it on the experiment package and it went to the moon.”

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin 'planted a British flag on the moon'

A British engineer has claimed that a Union Flag was planted on the moon by an unwitting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Truth is often stranger than fiction

 

[PaulR]

Hmmmm, article is dated too close to April 1st for my comfort.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Interestingly, Wells wasn't the first, cos there's this:

www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=716 .

Update

The Mysterious Bronze Objects that Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

The first dodecahedron was discovered nearly 300 years ago, yet no one is certain just what they were used for.

getpocket.com

 

[Channel Hopper]

I don't think so.

China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon

It becomes the second nation to unfurl its banner on the lunar surface, more than 50 years after the US.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Channel Hopper]

Cavor's craft was in Flog It yesterday.