There is that
I'm sure plenty of pranks took place on the moon. It wouldn't surprise me to know there's a 25' cock scratched into the lunar dust just in case any aliens fly-by. *

But the weirdest thing I've read about the US Apollo program concerns the moonshot where one of the astronauts asked Houston where the third stage was in relation to them? Given that it was less than 20 miles away and was clearly visible to them at the time, this was a question that puzzled Houston who nevertheless informed them where it was. But he asked the question, he says, because he was looking at something closer than that but couldn't say because everyone was listening.

*This so need photoshopping but I'm shit, if anyone would care to have a go....?
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 13:54, 2 replies)

Yes - they're famous for never having asked a stupid question ever, as well.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 13:57, closed)

googled this
and there's some fun youtube videos with Buzz talking about it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkV1ybBnHI

My theory? Well I guess they saw something but it's a big leap to get to aliens. More likely would be some discarded junk from another space mission.

*more googles* Ooh, this Russian unmanned probe was attempting to get to the moon around the same time - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_15 - a bit of that?
( rob, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 17:33, closed)

Yes, that's the one
My memory is a bit hazy but that's essentially the scenario that I was talking about.

It could well have been part of the Luna 15 shot as that left three days earlier but you would have thought they would have known about that and that, in hindsight, that's what it would have been identified as a piece of if such were the case.

But clicking around those videos, as I say, there's a bunch of astronauts who are giving testimony these days and it's harder to dismiss these guys as cranks, given they're all experienced pilots and such.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 19:10, closed)