US moon rock gift is 'fake'

State Dept hands out souvenir lump of wood instead!

[Syzygy]

[news.bbc.co.uk...]

A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say. It was given to former Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.

The US agency gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s.

Lol - and I wonder how many of other countries who think they've been gifted a piece of moon rock actually got given a bit of petrified wood instead..? :-)

[Demaestro]

I see this furthering conspiracy theories about them not actually having landed on the moon.

[Leosghost]

We know the bit that they gave the Brits is real ..'cos it had "moon" written right through it .

[Syzygy]

Possibly the fake offerings do mask the truth, but with good reason.

I mean, the samples of green cheese they brought back must really stink by now...

[D_Blackwell]

US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery.

Crawling under a rock like always. Any museum with one of these will need to conduct due diligence. I wonder how many on display might quietly be removed display without comment.

[jecasc]

I see only two possible explanations: Either the moon is made of wood or there were trees up there once.

History has to be rewritten: The first man on the moon was not Neil Armstrong but Johnny Appleseed.

[wyweb]

I'm opting for the trees were up there once thing..

[taasinge]

Perhaps the little prince was there and dropped a baobab?

[Syzygy]

...and the moon people could be living inside the baobabs...

[weeks]

Because they never really went. I read it this week in The Daily Manab Zamin.
[google.com...]

[jecasc]

Because they never really went. I read it this week in The Daily Manab Zamin.

But if they did not go - where does the piece of moon wood come from? Hah. I've got you there.

[weeks]

But if they did not go - where does the piece of moon wood come from? Hah. I've got you there.

Indeed! Moon wood is proof-positive. I am so glad to have the internet to get the real story straight.

[Syzygy]

Could just be a bit of moon drift wood that washed up on these shores...

[lawman]

Sure it's not moon corprolite?

[swa66]

The moon is fake!

[sgietz]

Just be glad it's wood and not petrified "something else." Astronauts do have to answer nature's call. If they answer it on the moon, it could be considered a moon rock of sorts :)

[Syzygy]

...like Lawman's coprolite's? :-)

[lawman]

...like Lawman's coprolite's

Thanks for fixing my spelling error. :)

[johnnie]

Actually we do have some of the 'real stuff' here. Its amazing though. Personally, I was instantly able to tell that was definately *not* a piece of moon. Just from the photograph. Seems like people just didn't want to know.

[johnnie]

The moon is fake!

No. It's made of cheese, really.