US moon rock gift is 'fake'

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US moon rock gift is 'fake'

State Dept hands out souvenir lump of wood instead!

Syzygy

3:29 pm on Aug 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

[news.bbc.co.uk...]

A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say. It was given to former Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.
The US agency gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s.

Lol - and I wonder how many of other countries who think they've been gifted a piece of moon rock actually got given a bit of petrified wood instead..? :-)

Demaestro

3:33 pm on Aug 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

I see this furthering conspiracy theories about them not actually having landed on the moon.

Leosghost

3:38 pm on Aug 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

We know the bit that they gave the Brits is real ..'cos it had "moon" written right through it .

Syzygy

5:33 pm on Aug 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

Possibly the fake offerings do mask the truth, but with good reason.

I mean, the samples of green cheese they brought back must really stink by now...

D_Blackwell

7:02 pm on Aug 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery.

Crawling under a rock like always. Any museum with one of these will need to conduct due diligence. I wonder how many on display might quietly be removed display without comment.

jecasc

2:44 pm on Sep 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

I see only two possible explanations: Either the moon is made of wood or there were trees up there once.

History has to be rewritten: The first man on the moon was not Neil Armstrong but Johnny Appleseed.

wyweb

3:48 pm on Sep 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm opting for the trees were up there once thing..

taasinge

6:48 am on Sep 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Perhaps the little prince was there and dropped a baobab?

Syzygy

9:04 am on Sep 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

...and the moon people could be living inside the baobabs...

weeks

9:58 pm on Sep 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

Because they never really went. I read it this week in The Daily Manab Zamin.
[google.com...]

jecasc

7:41 am on Sep 7, 2009 (gmt 0)

Because they never really went. I read it this week in The Daily Manab Zamin.

But if they did not go - where does the piece of moon wood come from? Hah. I've got you there.

weeks

1:06 pm on Sep 7, 2009 (gmt 0)

But if they did not go - where does the piece of moon wood come from? Hah. I've got you there.

Indeed! Moon wood is proof-positive. I am so glad to have the internet to get the real story straight.

Syzygy

4:59 pm on Sep 7, 2009 (gmt 0)

Could just be a bit of moon drift wood that washed up on these shores...

lawman

5:37 pm on Sep 7, 2009 (gmt 0)

Sure it's not moon corprolite?

swa66

3:09 am on Sep 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

The moon is fake!

sgietz

9:58 pm on Sep 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Just be glad it's wood and not petrified "something else." Astronauts do have to answer nature's call. If they answer it on the moon, it could be considered a moon rock of sorts :)

Syzygy

10:08 pm on Sep 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

...like Lawman's coprolite's? :-)

lawman

11:44 pm on Sep 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

...like Lawman's coprolite's

Thanks for fixing my spelling error. :)

johnnie

1:08 am on Sep 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

Actually we do have some of the 'real stuff' here. Its amazing though. Personally, I was instantly able to tell that was definately *not* a piece of moon. Just from the photograph. Seems like people just didn't want to know.

johnnie

1:10 am on Sep 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

The moon is fake!

No. It's made of cheese, really.