bloodyrosemccoy | Goddamn Bad Science

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Has anyone seen that thrice-cursed Red Bull commercial about the moon landing? It’s one of those ones with the badly animated squinty guys. They climb out of the LEM, but they cannot actually get their feet onto the moon because they drank a Red Bull, and so they have wings. So Houston says, “Well, we’ll just have to fake it.”

The first time I saw this commercial, I began to froth at the mouth. The following is a transcript of my response:

“What? No! Wings wouldn’t do anything on the moon, because there’s no goddamn atmosphere so there’s no air resistance! And why are the wings sticking out of the backs of their spacesuits? Is there a hole? Then they should be decompressed and out of air! And Red Bull wasn’t even invented for the moon landing, but if it was they’d never let astronauts sneak it on board!* And the moon landing wasn’t faked, you bastards! And the way they’re moving even with wings—”

At this point I was cut off, because Liz smacked me.

So when FedEx’s ‘moonbase’ commercial came on during the Superbowl, my friends began to preemptively shout, “Don’t think about it!” at me.

Screw them. You’ve pissed off the scientists. (And yes, it includes an embed of the ad.)

*Golf equipment, however, is an entirely different matter.