James Purser [INSERT WITTY CATCHPHRASE HERE]

While getting my morning twitter fix this morning I came across this post by Jeff:

"Astronauts are in the Command Service Module now, almost all the way to the Moon, poking around in the Eagle. 47 hours until landing!"

After a brief period of wondering whether he'd either ingested some good honest Yass "herb" or had infact invented a time machine, I came across wechoosethemoon.org which has been put together to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings.

One of the very cool features of this site is a live stream of the mission audio from Apollo 11. This means that no only do we get to relive the landing itself, but we can get that almost there sensation. It's like eaves dropping across time on a moment that for me at least is one of the highest achievements of humankind.

On the other hand it's also kind of depressing. 40 years ago we got to the moon, proved that it could be done and that we now had the opportunity to create a new pioneering age. Instead we got stuck with a brick with wings and teflon. Have we as a species lost that urge to explore that drove us across oceans, deserts and icepacks? Why is it considered science fiction to talk about Moon colonies and Asteroid Mining?

Sigh, I may not see a permanent settlement on the moon in my life time, but I hope against hope that my grand kids will.