We’re back in outer space again this post, bringing you The Onion’s absolutely fucking brilliant parody of the Apollo moon landing, featuring extremely high production value and some great voice acting. Hear what the first astronauts on the moon really meant to say, all while dreaming out to a Brian Eno track.

Hit the jump to view the NSFW, not safe for kids, not safe for fuddy-duddies video…

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Who needs planet Earth when we’ve got Mars?? That’s what I’m saying. The Mars Society, a group of scientists who share a goal of colonizing Mars, believes that humans can colonize the red planet in little more than 1000 years, in stark competition with other scientist’s who say it would be 20,000-100,000 years. According to the society, Mars could be colonized in 3 steps, the first of which is occurring now, exploration. Though many human landings would need to take place, the following steps would involve sketchy actions, such as giant mirrors directing the sun to the planet in an attempt to warm it, freeing gasses and eventually creating a global warming type effect. One of the options would be to build several chemical plants on the surface, pumping out 1,000 tons of fluoromethane an hour, which would raise the temperature on the red planet by 50°F over 30 years. See the complete PopSci walkthrough for a complete walkthrough of scenarios for terraforming planet Mars.

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In a new paper published on Sunday and delivered at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society a scientist is stating his theory that two NASA space probes (Vikings) may have found alien microbes on Mars 30 years ago but inadvertently killed them. The theory presented is that Voyager was looking for life forms specific to Earth-life, where salt water is the internal liquid of living cells, rather than hydrogen peroxide, a liquid which could more realistically survive the cold and dry climate of Mars. As the Viking probes performed their experiments on the Mars surface any hydrogen peroxide-based life would have been killed by experiments consisting of water poured onto the planet surface and another which heated the soil to see if something would occur, essentially baking and Martian microbes.

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French photobugs have been hard at work, taking pictures of the heavens, from moon phases to the Aurora Borealis, and posting them on celestial hobby photos page Photo Astronomique. One such project is a collection of pretty-good quality photos of every full moon since May 2005, compiled into a nifty little flash animation. Something about good quality photos of the moon is just so perfectly relaxing.

See more: 20 consecutive full moon slideshow