I don't really follow basketball, but I understand it takes a lot of talent to run up and down the court for a couple of hours, throwing a ball into a hoop ten feet high. And the morning TV shows just crazy-go-nuts over this guy Steph Curry, who has an attractive wife and a cute little daughter and whom Robin Roberts and others refer to as 'Superstar Steph Curry" and who wins a lot of games and who denies we ever sent people to the moon.
Yes, he said it, like when his fellow NBA "superstar" Kyrie Irving said earth is flat. Curry said, on the "Winging It" podcast,
"We ever been to the moon?"
And several other basketballers crooned in reply, "Nope."
"They're going to come get us, I don't think so either," Curry replied. "Sorry, I don't want to start any conspiracies."
He meant he didn't want to promulgate conspiracy theories, because the people who foisted off these non-landings started the conspiracy, if there was one, which there wasn't.
Leave it to Twitter to reply. People said things like, "Don't be stupid," and "it's not cool what you're doing."
It's neither cool nor smart.
NASA, those brainy people who put people on the moon, did the best thing. They invited Curry to come over and visit and see evidence of our having been on the moon.
"We'd love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel told the New York Times. "We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see firsthand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we're doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay."
From all that I read and hear, Curry is a great ballplayer, a leader on and off the court, a nice person who deals with the media and with fans equably, and has the reputation of reaching out to kids and young athletes. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina, and although he probably majored in Basketball, he must have stopped by a classroom or two in his campus days and heard about the pictures of the landing areas, the robotic orbiters and rovers and the 842 pounds of moon rocks in NASA's possession.
It's never been pointed out to me just why going to the moon was ever that important, anyway. I once asked a science-y friend why it was such a big deal, and the answer came back, "We got Tang, Corning Ware, and digital technology out of it."
I would prefer that we settle down here on earth and get our problems fixed here before we go to other planets and mess them up. But at least I know our planet is round and we did go to the moon.
Steph Curry should take NASA up on the field trip they offer. That would be one small step for a man, and yadda yadda yadda.
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