Tag: moon
Dennis Hope: The man who sells plots of land on the moon

A Nevada man named Dennis Hope has claimed ownership of the moon and sells plots of land to people for as little as $20.  He’s part of a group of individuals who deal in extraterrestrial real estate. This is a wild mini-documentary about Dennis from The New York Times.

I’ve never heard of this Pixar short before. It doesn’t seem to appear on any of the Pixar Short Films Collection volumes. Hmm, weird.

Full Moon Silhouettes from Mark Gee on Vimeo. This is all you need to know: Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. Such an incredible sight, and I’m so glad this wasn’t a time-lapse video.

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Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures – January 18, 2005 I really love this photo. And well, just about all the photos posted by PDN here.

This is what it’s like to drive a lunar rover on the moon. This is actual video taken during the Apollo 16 mission with astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke.