Apollo 11 Anniversary

update: this post has been linked by the super-dooper area blog, Treasured Valley! Running with the big dogs now... Thanks, Mr. Oates!

I really feel like I should/should have posted something about the 40 year anniversary of Apollo 11's moon-landing, but frankly, I can't think of anything to say that hasn't been said better by others.

So instead, I'll throw up a link to Wired's 10 Reasons Why The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Was Awesome, which is a little tongue-in-cheek, a little serious, and all worth the short amount of time to read.

It starts with:

We made the Russians look like chumps

We won the Space Race by putting a man on the moon. Sure, the Russians were there first having bounced their Luna 2 spacecraft off the moon 10 years earlier, but we left our footprints there. The Cold War may have lasted another 15 years or so after that, but it gave us the confidence to make movies like "Red Dawn." It also showed the world what could be achieved by democracy over communism.