{"id":5844,"date":"2011-10-10T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2011-10-08T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T22:47:03","slug":"5844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5844","title":{"rendered":"Moon Return: Forms, Zombies and Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z101011moon_custom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"709\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did you know that when the <strong>first men to land on the moon <\/strong>returned to <strong>Earth<\/strong> that they completed a <strong>report for customs<\/strong>?\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, <strong>NASA <\/strong>astronauts, <strong>Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Collins<\/strong> completed a <strong>customs form<\/strong> upon their return.\u00a0\u00a0 A spokesman for <strong>NASA<\/strong> has confirmed the <strong>authenticity of the document<\/strong> and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>see a full-moonsized version<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Space.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was <strong>ten years old<\/strong> when we first landed on the moon.\u00a0 I can remember watching <strong>black and white images<\/strong> beamed to us from <strong>240,000 miles away<\/strong> as all of the adults in the room and <strong>Walter Cronkite<\/strong> on the tube got giddy.\u00a0 It <del>was<\/del> is pretty cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were <strong>on the moon<\/strong>!\u00a0 How long w0uld it be until we had <strong>flying cars<\/strong> like <strong>Nick Fury<\/strong>?\u00a0 How long until <strong>astronauts <\/strong>were going to\u00a0<strong>Mars and beyond? <\/strong>Perhaps even\u00a0 a five year mission to go where no man had gone before was in order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But getting back to the <strong>custom&#8217;s report<\/strong>, I never knew about it before a few days ago.\u00a0 <strong>I do remember<\/strong> that when <strong>Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Collins<\/strong> returned to <strong>Earth<\/strong> that they had to wear <strong>special biological containment suits<\/strong> and\u00a0 were <strong>kept in quarantine<\/strong> for <strong>three weeks<\/strong> to be sure that they didn&#8217;t bring back a <strong>virus or germ<\/strong> that could start a <strong>zombie-apocalypse. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ok.\u00a0 I made up the<strong> zombie-apocalypse<\/strong> part, but the <strong>astronauts<\/strong> were kept in <strong>quarantine<\/strong> and did <strong>have to wear<\/strong> the <strong>biological containment suits<\/strong>.\u00a0 Even at ten years old, I remember thinking that <strong>the end of the human race<\/strong> would be like a <strong>cool episode<\/strong> of <em><strong>The Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/em> if the <strong>astronauts\u00a0accidentally <\/strong>brought\u00a0 back a <strong>virus or germ that killed us all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think about it, <strong>our greatest human triumph leads to our extinction<\/strong>.\u00a0 Now that would be a <strong>cool episode<\/strong> for <em><strong>The Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0 except it really wouldn&#8217;t be so cool in real life, would it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that when the first men to land on the moon returned to Earth that they completed a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,63,65,50,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-trivia","category-tv","category-zombies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}