Moon Landing 40th - My God, It's Full of Stars!

Happy 40th Anniversary, Moon Landing!

40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon and made it REAL. Hope you'll join me all week for a celebration of space travel and exploration. To start with...

40 Things Armstrong Didn't Find on the Moon and that You Probably Will Never Find There

1. A monolith pointing the way to the next stage of evolutionOr should I call it a Moonolith? (First item and already you want to slap me.)

2. An intact LEM

3. Superman and Solar Man, duking it out in slow motion.

4. Luna Park
The happiest place orbiting Earth.

5. A plane in a crater, no matter what you saw in Weekly World News

6. Werewolves who can't turn into humans again

7. Dracula's vampire castle

8. Werewolves FIGHTING vampires

9. The Watcher
That cosmic voyeur who's as interested in what you've done as what you might have done if you were a little crazy and didn't care that everyone on Earth died.

10. A floating city filled with Inhumans

11. Any kind of "blue area"

12. Robin Williams' floating head
I didn't know that's what they meant when they called him King of the Moon.

13. Cheese. Loads and loads of cheese.

14. An armada, waiting just behind it

15. Cyrano de Bergerac

16. A base ready to take on the universe
In case, you know, the Moon flies off for a day trip.

17. Caves dug out by savage insects my ether ship's crew really wants to explore

18. That Chinese emperor who blasted his ass up there with a throne full of fireworks

19. Souls (creepy!)

20. Amazon Women

21. A giant Egyptian dung beetle giving it a push

22. Footprints... with toes!

23. The Justice League Watchtower
Because there's a lot of crime on the Moon.

24. Lake Armstrong (not that I mind the terraforming, but beaches made of dust aren't exactly what I think of as a good vacation spot)

25. Marvin the Martian's summer cottage

26. This
Oh, people from 1835. Will you never learn?

27. Giant adverts

28. An 18-hole golf course

29. Something in the Moon's eye
Or eyes, for that matter.

30. Tycho City

31. The gun that shot down Apollo 13

32. The TARDIS

33. John Glenn's space fireflies

34. Captain Haddock's empties

35. The Mirror Universe Neil Armstrong waiting for him with a gun
It could have gone down very differently.

37. The camera crew taking pictures of the moon landing

38. Dinosaur-killing bacteria

39. Andy Kaufman

40. A cow in orbit
Somebody should really just get around to shooting one up there.