Comments on: Nassa

Nassa

yonation — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:06:14 -0800

Meet the NSP It was a long time ago, you understand. 1957-58, if you will. One of the best 27mb movie files you will see this year. the real story is somewhat different.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:26:11 -0800

This is good. Watching it though, I had in mind the news of late about the prevalence of government propaganda in the form of video, and I thought.. you know, if someone were serious enough, anything could be made to seem believable, if you set the right tone.

By: zoinks

zoinks — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:37:29 -0800

Great. Sullivan Carew's letter home is brilliant, and Dr. Fingerroot, yes. I've worked on a number of docs on African American history, including one on the Tuskegee Airmen a couple years ago, so this hits very close to home. Yay. (Oh yeah and "whites only" on the top of the capsule...heh.)

By: driveler

driveler — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:40:44 -0800

It sure is fuckin' cold up here. Yessir. I 'bout froze my muthafuckin nuts off. Goddam. Space is one cold muthafucka.' That was great. Thanks.

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:55:13 -0800

Fabulous. "It was a different time...1957."

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:01:17 -0800

"... or 58"

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:08:17 -0800

I vaguely remember that there was an African-American candidate for one of the missions back during the Apollo program, but I can't think of the name.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:16:19 -0800

Thanks, yonation - I had tears in my eyes! "A film not by Ken Burns," indeed.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:39:54 -0800

This was significantly better than Gay Niggers From Outer Space.

By: maryh

maryh — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:49:32 -0800

"America's love affair with racism was in full swing." This is great. Thanks, yonation!

By: nixerman

nixerman — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:45:47 -0800

Cool. Yeah, you can fake most anything. It'd be terribly easy to effect another 'War of the Worlds' type event because people are so conditioned to accept the local/cable news format.

By: tristeza

tristeza — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:55:15 -0800

BOOKMAN!!!!

By: Balisong

Balisong — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:06:49 -0800

That was wonderful! Thank you!!

By: thanatogenous

thanatogenous — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:31:54 -0800

No one actually "caught fire"... or "burned" if you will.

By: fungible

fungible — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:04:49 -0800

Very Dave Chapelle-ish, only better.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:10:56 -0800

"This is good", or "excellent post" if I may.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:42:37 -0800

I vaguely remember that there was an African-American candidate for one of the missions back during the Apollo program, but I can't think of the name. It was in one of the links, but you had to read carefully and click through. Robert Henry Lawrence was the first African-American astronaut, a test pilot from Chicago who was named to the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. Lawrence died months later in a crash, and the MOL never was realized; satellite technology improved, eliminating its reconnaissance role, and its remnants were subsumed into the joint USAF/NASA program which became the Space Shuttle, and eventually the International Space Station. Mostly because he wasn't part of NASA at the time (rather than racism), he was not included in the astronaut memorial until 1998.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:37:19 -0800

As terrified as the administration was of losing the space race to the Russians, they were ten times more terrified of losing it to the Negroes. Oh my god, this is so fucking funny. That blues song about the blackstronaut "shooting up again" is dead-on perfect parody. A full three years before Neil Armstrong, Jefferson and Hayes land their modified Cadillac Coup de Ville just east of the Sea of Tranquility. But because of the Black blackout, the accomplishment is completely buried by the mainstream media. [Burns-style pan to tiny page 34 article, "Negroes Land on Moon."] *falls out of chair, laughing*

By: milnak

milnak — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:52:09 -0800

"Space is one cold motherfucker" [this is good]

By: Dean Keaton

Dean Keaton — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:54:43 -0800

This was so well done it seemed almost like watching the History Channel, and I laughed my ass off.

By: Toecutter

Toecutter — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:52:22 -0800

I 'bout laughed my muthafuckin nuts off. Outstanding post.

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:00:25 -0800

I wish I could remember the context in which I made this image last year.

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:06:04 -0800

Oh, shoot, I forgot I put in an .htaccess to stop hot linking? Anyway, it's a Photoshopped team picture in spacesuits of the first astronauts to go to the moon, Armstrong, Adrin and Collins, with Neil Armstrong's head swapped out for Louis Armstrong, har-har.