From: Jonathan Singer (S&T Onsite) 
To: geriy@hubble.asymetrix.com, ggarb@eworld.com, jsp,
        sandy@home.actlab.utexas.edu
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 14:38:50 PDT
Subject: FW: Humor: Moon-Men
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[Forwards manifesting their destiny]

   About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission
 took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo
 Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface.  With all the
 trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in
 full Lunar spacesuits.
   Near by, a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange
 creatures walk about occasionally being tended by personnel.    The
 two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.
 Since the man did not know English, his son asked for him what the
 strange creatures were and the NASA people told them that they are
 just men that are getting ready to go to the moon.  The man became
 very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the
 astronauts.
   The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up
 a tape recorder.  After the man gave them his message they asked his
 son to translate.  His son would not.
   Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate
 and every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to
 translate.  Finally, with cash in hand someone translated the message,
 "Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land."


 --Charles Phillip Whitedog, Ojibway and Network Manager Multimission Ground
 Systems Office (Mission Control), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA