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     WALKING ON THE MOON
Year One Tournament of Champions Champ, August 2009 Champion It is pretty amazing how humans are able to escape Earth , go to the moon and walk on it. It is a symbol of national pride for Americans but also a beacon of hope for all humans because it shows us that no task is too large and no obstacle too high to overcome. "One small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind" Niel Armstrong
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Walking on the Moon was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Chewbacca  The Couch Dress  Moustache Balaclava  Giant Nintendo Controller  Jesus Christ  Little Superstar  Meat Suitcase  Sasquatch  Nikola Tesla  General Lee 01  Crop Circles  Mock Apple Pie  El Chupacabra  BigDog Robot  Robocop on a Unicorn  Roller Derby  Freerunning  Dwight K. Schrute  The Hamburger Bed  Wingsuit Base Jumping Wingsuit Base Jumping  Bob Ross  Aurora Borealis  Flying Spaghetti Monster  Beer Maids  Hedgehogs  WAKE n' BACON  Zombies  Rollerman  Paul Bunyan  Space Invader Invasion  Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator  The Brick Testament  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Captain James T. Kirk  The Man with No Name  Banksy  Library of Congress  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Literal Video Versions  Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee  Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Hunter S. Thompson  Extent of the Universe  Dante Bucci  Burj Dubai  Marilyn Manson  Mark Twain Mark Twain  Daft Punk  Danny Way Jumps the Great Wall  Emperor Norton  Silly Putty  Afro Samurai  Jesus Riding A Dinosaur  The Lost City of Atlantis  The Motherland Calls  Jackalopes  Capes  Tim and Eric Awesome Show  Georgia Guidestones  Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide  Los Pikadientes De Caborca  Wienermobile  Les Claypool Les Claypool  Holy Hand Grenade  Shreddin Walking on the Moon was voted LESS AWESOME than: Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
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   LITERAL VIDEO VERSIONS
Special Selection July 2009 Litteral video versions are pretty big fad on YouTube, but the art is being perfected more with each posted video. The concept is simple, there is nothing more pretentious and random than your average 1980's music video. You listen to the song, and maybe don't fully pay attention to how completely lame the visual story is in the video. Fast forward 25 years, and some talented artists are re-recording new lyrics to these lame visuals, and the result is pure gold. The first video in this playlist has more awesome than can be taken in just one viewing. "What the effing crap, that angel guy just felt me up" - pure genius
Nominated by Ivan Awesomeoff
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Literal Video Versions was voted MORE AWESOME than:
The Couch Dress Moustache Balaclava Giant Nintendo Controller General Lee 01 El Chupacabra BigDog Robot Roller Derby  Badass Mountain Men  Lawn Mower Racing  Pirate Parts  The Recliner  ManBabies  Non-Newtonian Liquid  Greenpeace  The Carrot Highway  Pizzazz  Converse All Stars  Disco Balls  Vampires  Price is Right Wheel  Fireworks  Obama Ninja-Chops Fly  Tooth Fairy Literal Video Versions was voted LESS AWESOME than: Little Superstar Sasquatch  Venus Fly Traps  Theo Jansen's Art Nikola Tesla Freerunning  Mister Rogers doing The Wave  President Obama The Hamburger Bed Wingsuit Base Jumping Bob Ross Aurora Borealis Flying Spaghetti Monster Beer Maids Hedgehogs Zombies Rollerman Paul Bunyan The Brick Testament Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Captain James T. Kirk The Man with No Name Banksy  Johnny Cash  Teddy Roosevelt Library of Congress James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Death Star  Praying Mantises Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole  Lincoln Continental Convertables  MST3K Extent of the Universe Extent of the Universe  Congress Ave Bridge Bats Walking on the Moon Les Claypool
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I found this when I wasn't even looking for literal vids today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhJVAFIMnkc reply
How different from the original do you think the literal video version of Man From Down Under is?
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If this was the song by The Police I'd vote for it, but literally moon walking? Too geeky a nomination by far!
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Just pretend it's the Police, then.
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Your sense of awesome is on the moon right now.
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Geeky...once again, I don't get you Yorky
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You don't get me? It's simple: if it's the kind of thing I imagine the spotty kids who used to sit at the front of the class would like, it's not awesome.
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Yeah, but most of us ARE those spotty kids who sat at the front of the class. Hence, Awesome.
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And, human beings walking on another FREAKING WORLD is pretty f***ing Awesome. Geeky or not, It takes stones to cram yourself in the computing equivalent of a four function calculator and hurl yourself to another celestial body!
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If they'd opened up the selection process I'm sure there wouldn've been no shortage of volunteers.
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OK, so strapping yourself to a pillar of flame, onboard the largest non-nuclear explosive device ever built, tearing yourself free from the planet's gravity and taking steps on a surface further away than anyone has been before isn't awesome?
And as for volunteers, it's hard to find volunteers who have the skills required to pilot a lunar module or re-entry vehicle using nothing but a slide-rule, brains and guts. Totally awesome. reply
It's difficult to find volunteers who are qualified to be a f***ing crossing guard, let alone fly to another world.
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Look, lets not slag volunteers in general; as someone who relied on volunteers to put on our provincial Special Olympics Games, I can vouchsafe the fact that volunteers are awesome.
But I doubt I could find any with the neccessary skillz to fly a Saturn 5. reply
That wasn't really meant to disparage volunteers as a concept. My point was that, judging from Youtube, every redneck with a video camera would volunteer to do ridiculous things, but that doesn't mean that they would, 1. be qualified or 2. actually do it when the chips were down.
When you and two of your closest buddies are sitting on top of 6 million pounds of rocket fuel. Steaming, seething, ready to explode at a moment's notice, you might have second thoughts about taking that trip. Especially knowing that the computers that run everything onboard are substantially less complicated than even the most basic cellular phone. Mankind's greatest endeavour. End of story. I may have nominated Mark Twain, but I'm going to go ahead and call Walking on the Moon the single most Awesome entrant of the month.
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Obviously no-one just has the skills to fly a lunar lander and safely put it on the moon: that comes with training. What they would need to look for in volunteers is the aptitude to absorb that training and the medical and physical fitness and mental robustness to survive the mission and be able to think straight while under considerable mental and physical strain.
Needless to say, I'd do it. In my world where I'm the model of normality everyone would jump at the chance, hence my comment about there being no shortage of volunteers. reply
And yet a couple messages ago you thought walking on the moon was 'too geeky' for you to vote for it.. yet now, you are saying you would volunteer, and give your life to the cause of space exploration... you're getting hard to follow yorky.
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I'm not being inconsistent at all: being asked to take part in a space mission, especially a Moon landing, would be totally awesome - nominating "Walking on the Moon" (but not the record by The Police), however, is geeky.
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yah thad be cool if we really went to the moon!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories
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I find it interesting that most people that believe the moon landings were a hoax cite photographic evidence to prove we didn't go, but typically no little to absolutely nothing about photography. Which leads me to my conclusion. If you do not believe we went to the moon, then you are f***ing retarded, and I'm sending Buz Aldrin to your house! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU
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With moon landings, atlantis, nostradamas, georgia guidestones and jesus riding t-rex, expect the crazies this month. I'm not sure what will be bigger this month; the conspiracy theory/new age bloc or the music bloc.
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I hadn't noticed just how wacky many of these candidates were until you pointed it out. This should be a fun month!
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A month that makes Emperor Norton look sane. We're in trouble!
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A-ha: Take on me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnjYrP5J6rE
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I think the Ah-ha one is great, but I can not find the original. I'm not going to post the one with that douche from digg, I want the original without the intro or starwars crap at the end. I just can't find it!
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Fair enough, the intro and extro are veryh annoying!
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Take On Me (complete version)
http://www.dustfilms.com/literalvideos
This also has Dustin's other three literal videos. Take On Me and Under The Bridge were banned from his YouTube account (though other YT users repost them).
Dust Films (DustoMcNeato on YT) originated the literal video. The four by him, and the eight by DASjr Productions (dascottjr on YT) seem to be the most highly regarded, though HomeStarRunnerTron's two are well-produced, and worth a look.
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