Well, in 2024 NASA is going to make this a reality for me.
So now that April Fools is well over, and you all thoroughly believed my absolutely convincing ruse, I really wanted to just take a moment to acknowledge that in the original version of this gag, I had chosen 2024 as my "go to the moon" date.
Cause as far as I can find, the Artemis II mission was proposed and planned in April of 2017, almost exactly a year after my original april fools joke was posted. Then I find that their original target date for the launch was November 2024, which is the year I totally just threw out in 2016 (probably subconsciously thinking in presidential election timelines given that year). Then they delayed the mission for another two years, opting to launch in February of 2026 but due to a coolant leak they had to postpone again to the launch date that was a week ago today, April Fools 2026, exactly one decade after my original goof.
So now I'm thinking, Apollo (further moon launch connection, tin foil hat activated) decided to give me the gift of prophecy, but only for the strict usage of really stupid april fool spoof webpages that play rick astley's never gonna give you up.
Next year: give me a subject you want to get pre-cog foresight on and I'll make another rick astley page about it without thinking too hard but I'll be sure to use specific dates. Maybe we can do our own sports almanac thing and we all get "biff tannen in the alternate 1985" rich.
Then we buy Blockland IP rights from Badspot and we make...
Blockland 2.
