#lunar landing day

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[andreaissy]

Okay so if you are a nerd, like me, and are terrible at math (also me) and very specifically have a combination of interest in sims 4 and space- I got help figuring out how to get Lunar Landing Day into the standard 7 day season cycle in seasons and figured I would share it if you’d similarly like to add a lunar holiday to your sims.

See- the fun thing about summer is (in the northern hemisphere) it’s about 93.6 days long. So when I started with math it was like oh jeez how am I going to slide this down into workable units to calculate lunar landing day. Well, the solution is start with the beginning of summer. This is generally June 20-22, it depends on the year. For simplicity- we’re using June 20th because Lunar Landing Day is a month from it, which gives us a nice number of 30. (I checked- each number by dividing 93.6 by 28, 29 and 30. The numbers are 3.34, 3.22, and 3.12 respectively).

So now we know it’s pretty much exactly one third of the way through summer! Great! One third of seven is 2.3 repeating. Plugging each of the numbers in gets 2.09, 2.16, and 2.24 respectively. Which pretty solidly puts it at the second day of summer if you’re using standard sims 4 week long seasons.

If you wanna add a holiday I’ll leave it up to you! But I’ve been seeing some really awesome posts with people doing/planning little parties and baking stuff so I’m adding that to mine! Have fun with it! And happy lunar landing day!!

[mar-the-magician]

It’s moon day!!

[flyingbooks42]

For moon landing day, I wore my 50th anniversary of the moon landing t-shirt and baked a cheesecake. Hopefully it turned out okay - I haven't tasted it yet

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY FELLAS

↑↑WE WENT THERE↑↑

[ravingsockmonkey]

In honor of the anniversary of the lunar landing...

[druid-in-hiding]

In Honor of the July 20th Moon Landing

Could somebody help me out? For some reason I can't remember if we actually landed on the moon or not. It's weird. I swear I watched the broadcast in grade school but it just keeps slipping from my head.

[kimnowls]

Happy Moon Landing Day! (July 20, 2023)

[alagaisia]

Okay so I never got around to replacing the not-very-good-anyway astronaut shaped cookie cutter that I melted in the dishwasher with a better and unmelted one. And my cookie-decorating skills are none. So tonight, in preparation for Lunar Landing Day tomorrow, I made moon (circle) shaped shortbread cookies with just a regular old smear of frosting on them. But! They are pretty tasty :)

I (more or less) used this recipe for apricot basil shortbread:

It’s pretty savory on its own, which isn’t a bad thing at all, just not what I was looking for. But luckily, I was already planning to also use this recipe for apricot cream cheese frosting:

I halved it and had pretty much exactly the right amount. (…I also barely followed this recipe because I had dried apricots, not apricot jam, and because I’ve made cream cheese frosting before, and it’s very easy. The important takeaway here is that half of a block of cream cheese is the amount of cream cheese to start with for this recipe in this instance)

[theofficialastronomy101]

[astronotmovie]

An open road. Astronaut David Scott approaches the Lunar Rover during Apollo 15, Aug 1971. This was the first use of the LRV during the Apollo Program. The moon buggy was designed for a top speed of 6mph (9.7kmh) though it achieved nearly double that during Apollo 17 at 11.2 mph (18th). The 3 LRV’s of Apollo 15-17 are on the moon. I wonder what they look like now 50+ years onward?

[thepastisalreadywritten]

One small step. 🌑

On 20 July 1969 (54 years ago), Apollo 11 crewmembers became the first human beings to set foot on the lunar surface.

Today, we’re building on the legacy of Apollo as we prepare to establish a long-term human infrastructure on the Moon with Artemis.

— NASA

[ownsfare]

Happy Moon landing Day!

[thedeadthree]

what is lineage, if not a silver thread of pride and guilt?

PRINCESS ELAENAERA OF HOUSE TARGARYEN

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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In honor of Moon Landing Day, I'm considering buying some lunar regolith simulant. Real moon rocks are in, shall we say, limited supply, but you can buy Earth-made stuff that is nearly indistinguishable from the real deal from the University of Central Florida. It's not cheap, something like fifty or sixty bucks per kilo for the good stuff, well over a thousand per kilo for the REALLY good stuff, and they don't sell it by the gram (you can get 100g of the really good stuff, or 10g of the crap stuff), so you'll really want to think it over before committing. It's mostly bought by universities to study the effects of sandblasting their instruments with Moon dust or Mars dust, but I think it would be neat to have a jar full of the stuff as a paperweight. It's a high fidelity facsimile, which is up my alley, but I don't know if I want it enough to justify the price tag. $60 is close to a week worth of food for me, so maybe I'll save up and get some for Christmas instead, just in time for Apollo 17's Moon Landing Day (December 11).

[ourbastardofsorrows]

fun fact: i grew up in a very small town that held a carnival every year on the anniversary of the moon landing

(note: the town was in no way related to the moon landing. it just shared a name with the united states space missions. it’d be like florence, alabama throwing a party on da vinci’s birthday)

it’s nice to see tumblr keeping that spirit alive