"THE LOST MISSILE" IS THE TITLE OF A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE FROM 1958. BEING A MOVIE FAN IN ADDITION TO BEING A SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY PERSON EVER SINCE THE TIME I WITNESSED AN EVENT IN MILAZZO,SICILY BEFORE COMING TO AMERICA IN 1956.
ABOUT A YEAR OR TWO EARLIER IN A NIGHT THAT IN A FEW SECONDS WITH A WHISTLE BECAME DAY, A SUMMER NIGHT THAT TURNED INTO TERROR CAUSING EVERYONE ENJOYING THE COOL MEDITERRANEAN BREEZE TO RUN EVERY WHICH WAY FOR SAFETY. IT WAS AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACE OBJECT,AN ASTEROID THAT FELL FROM THE SKY INTO THE TYRRENEAN SEA, NOBODY KNEW HOW BIG AN OBJECT OR HOW FAR INTO THE SEA IT FELL OTHER THAN SEEING DAYLIGHT AT ABOUT TEN THIRTY AT NIGHT AND AN OMINUOS WHISTLE AND LONG THUNDERING SOUND SCARED THE HELL OUT OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE,SOME OF THEM SCREAMING "ATOMIC WAR", "ATOMIC BOMBS".
THE NEXT MORNING I BOUGHT MY FIRST NEWSPAPER, I WAS ABOUT TWELVE, I DON'T KNOW WHERE I GOT THE MONEY FROM,MONEY WAS VERY SCARCE BACK THEN ESPECIALLY FOR A PRE TEENAGE KID, I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY BUT PROBABLY I GOT IT FROM WHATEVER LITTLE SAVINGS I USED TO PUT TOGETHER BY SELLING SCRAP METAL WHICH I USED TO LOOK FOR DRIVEN BY MY LOVE FOR COMIC BOOKS AND I USED THE MONEY TO BUY THE COMIC BOOKS. THIS EXTRAORDINARY EVENT PUSHED ME SO MUCH THAT IT MADE ME FORGET FOR ONCE THE COMIC BOOKS AND TO GO AND BUY ME " LA GAZZETTA DEL SUD" ONE OF THE TWO MOST POPULAR DAILIES IN SICILY AT THAT TIME ,THE OTHER BEING "IL GIORNALE DI SICILIA".
I LOOKED THAT PAPER WITH TREMENDOUS INTEREST, EVERY INCH OF IT,FINALLY I FOUND WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR,BUT IT WASN'T WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR, ALAS,.. NOBODY ELSE KNEW MORE THAN WHAT I KNEW,IT WAS ONLY 1954OR 55, NOT 2020 WHEN NOTHING MUCH ESCAPES SCINTISTS OF TODAY. THE ARTICLE WAS NOT MORE THAN TWO INCH BY TWO INCH AND IT SAID OF A SPACE OBJECT THAT FELL OUT TO SEA CAUSING PANIC AMONG MANY COASTAL PEOPLE BUT LUCKILY WITH NO DAMAGE AND NO HARM TO ANYONE.
THAT EVENT STARTED OPENING MY EYES . WHEN I REACHED AMERICA A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER I STARTED READING ABOUT SCIENCE,ASTRONOMY,ETC,AS SOON AS I COULD I BOUGHT A TELESCOPE , A THREE INCH NEWTONIAN THAT LATER ON I TOOK TO ITALY TO OBSERVE THE THEN WONDERFUL SICILIAN SKIES WITH ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC VIEWS, THOSE SKIES WERE COMPLETELY FULL OF STARS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE,THOUSANDS OF THEM,IF YOU TRIED YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO COUNT THEM ALL. I REMEMBER PEOPLE WHO STARTED TO DO IT AND QUIT JUST PARTOF THE WAY , JUST IMAGINE THE VIEWS WITH THAT SMALL BUT QUALITY NEWTONIAN.
THROUGH THE YEARS I PURSUED OTHER INTERESTS BUT NEVER REALLY QUIT ASTRONOMY, IT WAS AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING HOBBY BUT I REALIZED IT WAS LIMITED IN THAT THERE WOULD BE ONLY A SMALL ADVANCE IN MANY MANY YEARS, SO TO COMPLEMENT IT I BRANCHED OUT TO SCIENCE FICTION, THE POWER OF THE MIND IS MUCH FASTER THAN SCIENCE AND OFTEN WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION TODAY WILL BE REALITY OR PART REALITY TOMORROW.
AMERICA OF THE 1950S WAS LIKE A WONDERLAND,FOR A KID LIKE ME IT WAS LIKE HEAVEN, MY TWO BIGGEST HOBBIES AT THE TIME WERE COWBOY MOVIES AND SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES AND MOVIES OF THOSE GENRE WERE CONTINUOUSLY COMING OUT LIKE HOT CAKES!,COMEDY MOVIES WERE ALSO IN THE MIX, SO TWO TIMES A WEEK WITH 25 OR 50 CENTS I WOULD GET TO SEE TWO MOVIES AT THE LOCAL MOVIE THEATERS ,WESTERN OR SCIENCE FICTION SOMETIMES ONE OF EACH PLUS A MOVIE SHORT USIALLY A STOOGES,ABBOTT&COSTELLO, OUR GANG, OR THE EAST SIDE KIDS AND COMING ATTRACTIONS.
THE SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES OF THE FIFTIES HAVE COME NOW TO HAVE A BAD NAME FOR THE BAD QUALITY,WHICH FOR THE MOST PART IS TRUE,THE PRODUCERS WOULD QUICKLY GIVE TO THE AUDIENCES WHAT THE AUDIENCES WANTED, WHICH WERE MONSTERS,CHEAP THRILLS,SENSATIONALISMS ETC, BUT ALSO THE FIFTIES PRODUCED THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES WHOSE QUALITY STANDS UP HEAD AND SHOULDERS TO THE ONES OF MANY YEARS LATER FULL OF VIOLENCE AND LITTLE OF SCIENCE ,SPECIAL EFFECTS IS THE ONLY IMPROVEMENT TO THE 50S.
WITH TIME I BUILT UP A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES ON BETA AND VHS AND THEN WHEN THERE WAS NOT MUCH MORE TO ADD I STARTED WITH MOVIE POSTERS, MOSTLY MADE UP OF SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES AND A FEW OTHERS,I REGRET NOT BUYING EXPENSIVE ONES LIKE DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN,I WOULD ONLY BUY THE ONES THAT I LIKED, LIKE "THE LOST MISSILE" OF THE PHOTO ABOVE AND SOME OTHERS.
SOME OF THE FIFTIES SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES I WOULD RECOMMEND TO ALL WHO HAVEN'T SEEM THEM ARE THE ONES LIKE "DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL", "FORBIDDEN PLANET", "FLIGHT TO MARS", "ROCKETSHIP XM", "MAN FROM PLANET X", "ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS"."THIS ISLAND EARTH", "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE", "WAR OF THE WORLDS", "BAMBOO SAUCER', "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS", "I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE", THE LAST TWO NEVER MIND THE CORNY TITLE,THEY ARE EXCELLENT MOVIES. YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I MEAN WHEN YOU SEE THEM.THERE ARE MORE WHICH I DON'T HAVE TO MENTION.
NOW FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, THE REASON FOR THIS POST , FOR THE TITLE OF THIS POST AND FOR THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE PICTURED ON THIS POST IS THAT SOME OF THOSE MOVIES SOMEDAY WILL COME TO BE AT LEAST OF SOME REALITY, LIKE NOW ,IN A HUNDRED YEARS OR IN A THOUSAND YEARS.
THIS TIME, SO SOON,BECAUSE WE HAVE AN OBJECT WHICH SCIENTIST ASTRONOMERS HAVE SEEN ,STUDIED AND MAPPED,WHICH IS APPROACHING EARTH FROM OUTER SPACE AND TRAVELING AT A SLOW ASTRONOMICAL SPEED OF LITTLE OVER THREE THOUSAND KILOMETERS PER HOUR , WILL BE APPROACHING EARTH SO CLOSE THAT EARTH WILL SNATCH IT FROM ITS WAY AND MAKE IT A SECOND TERRESTRIAL MOON AT LEAST UNTIL 2021 UNTIL THE OBJECT WILL BREAK FREE AND RESUME ITS UNENDING SPACE VOYAGE.
SCIENTISTS ARE NOT EXACTLY SURE YET WHAT IT IS ,WHERE ITS COMING FROM AND WHERE IT'S GOING BUT AFTER STUDYING IT THEY THINK IT MIGHT BE PART OF A LOST MISSILE LAUNCHED FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON IN 1966 THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAND AND STUDY THE MOON, THEY LOST CONTROL ,PART SEPARATED AND PART CRASHED INTO THE MOON. THE PART THAT SEPARATED CONTINUED ON AN UNKNOWN TRAJECTORY AND FINALLY TURNED AROUND AND IS NOW COMING BACK IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. WE SHALL KNOW MORE AS OCTOBER APPROACHES AND TIME FOR EARTH TO CAPTURE AND MAKE IT A SECOND MOON FOR WHAT IS EXPECTED SEVEN OR EIGHT MONTHS.
IN THE MOVIE "THE LOST MISSILE" SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A MISSILE LIKE OBJECT ON A TRAJECTORY CLOSE TO EARTH, A EUROPEAN NATION PROBABLY RUSSIA SENDS A ROCKET TO TRY AND KNOCK IT OUT,THE ROCKET HITS IT BUT MANAGES TO CHANGE ITS TRAJECTORY IN A WAY THAT IT GETS IN AN ORBIT AROUND EARTH CAUSING GREAT DESTRUCTION AS IT GOES AROUND,THE CITY OF OTTAWA IS DESTROYED AND NEW YORK CITY HAS TO BE EVACUATED, IN THE END A PLUTONIUM CHARGE IS PLACED ON ANOTHER ROCKET LOADED AND LAUNCHED BY ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS THAT FINALLY SUCCESSFULLY KNOCKS THE OBJECT OUT OF THE SKY SACRIFICING HIS LIFE TO SAVE THE WORLD.
WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS THING APPROACHING EARTH PRESENTLY AND SOON ENTERING EARTH ORBIT I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT ABOUT "THE LOST MISSILE" WHICH IS IN MY MOVIE AND POSTER COLLECTION,I HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN AGES AND MIGHT DO SO SOON.
MEANWHILE DO NOT WORRY ONE BIT, PLANET EARTH IS SAFE AT LEAST FOR THIS ENCOUNTER WITH THIS LOST MISSILE.
NEW YORK,SEPTEMBER 26,2020
ABOUT A YEAR OR TWO EARLIER IN A NIGHT THAT IN A FEW SECONDS WITH A WHISTLE BECAME DAY, A SUMMER NIGHT THAT TURNED INTO TERROR CAUSING EVERYONE ENJOYING THE COOL MEDITERRANEAN BREEZE TO RUN EVERY WHICH WAY FOR SAFETY. IT WAS AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACE OBJECT,AN ASTEROID THAT FELL FROM THE SKY INTO THE TYRRENEAN SEA, NOBODY KNEW HOW BIG AN OBJECT OR HOW FAR INTO THE SEA IT FELL OTHER THAN SEEING DAYLIGHT AT ABOUT TEN THIRTY AT NIGHT AND AN OMINUOS WHISTLE AND LONG THUNDERING SOUND SCARED THE HELL OUT OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE,SOME OF THEM SCREAMING "ATOMIC WAR", "ATOMIC BOMBS".
THE NEXT MORNING I BOUGHT MY FIRST NEWSPAPER, I WAS ABOUT TWELVE, I DON'T KNOW WHERE I GOT THE MONEY FROM,MONEY WAS VERY SCARCE BACK THEN ESPECIALLY FOR A PRE TEENAGE KID, I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY BUT PROBABLY I GOT IT FROM WHATEVER LITTLE SAVINGS I USED TO PUT TOGETHER BY SELLING SCRAP METAL WHICH I USED TO LOOK FOR DRIVEN BY MY LOVE FOR COMIC BOOKS AND I USED THE MONEY TO BUY THE COMIC BOOKS. THIS EXTRAORDINARY EVENT PUSHED ME SO MUCH THAT IT MADE ME FORGET FOR ONCE THE COMIC BOOKS AND TO GO AND BUY ME " LA GAZZETTA DEL SUD" ONE OF THE TWO MOST POPULAR DAILIES IN SICILY AT THAT TIME ,THE OTHER BEING "IL GIORNALE DI SICILIA".
I LOOKED THAT PAPER WITH TREMENDOUS INTEREST, EVERY INCH OF IT,FINALLY I FOUND WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR,BUT IT WASN'T WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR, ALAS,.. NOBODY ELSE KNEW MORE THAN WHAT I KNEW,IT WAS ONLY 1954OR 55, NOT 2020 WHEN NOTHING MUCH ESCAPES SCINTISTS OF TODAY. THE ARTICLE WAS NOT MORE THAN TWO INCH BY TWO INCH AND IT SAID OF A SPACE OBJECT THAT FELL OUT TO SEA CAUSING PANIC AMONG MANY COASTAL PEOPLE BUT LUCKILY WITH NO DAMAGE AND NO HARM TO ANYONE.
THAT EVENT STARTED OPENING MY EYES . WHEN I REACHED AMERICA A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER I STARTED READING ABOUT SCIENCE,ASTRONOMY,ETC,AS SOON AS I COULD I BOUGHT A TELESCOPE , A THREE INCH NEWTONIAN THAT LATER ON I TOOK TO ITALY TO OBSERVE THE THEN WONDERFUL SICILIAN SKIES WITH ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC VIEWS, THOSE SKIES WERE COMPLETELY FULL OF STARS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE,THOUSANDS OF THEM,IF YOU TRIED YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO COUNT THEM ALL. I REMEMBER PEOPLE WHO STARTED TO DO IT AND QUIT JUST PARTOF THE WAY , JUST IMAGINE THE VIEWS WITH THAT SMALL BUT QUALITY NEWTONIAN.
THROUGH THE YEARS I PURSUED OTHER INTERESTS BUT NEVER REALLY QUIT ASTRONOMY, IT WAS AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING HOBBY BUT I REALIZED IT WAS LIMITED IN THAT THERE WOULD BE ONLY A SMALL ADVANCE IN MANY MANY YEARS, SO TO COMPLEMENT IT I BRANCHED OUT TO SCIENCE FICTION, THE POWER OF THE MIND IS MUCH FASTER THAN SCIENCE AND OFTEN WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION TODAY WILL BE REALITY OR PART REALITY TOMORROW.
AMERICA OF THE 1950S WAS LIKE A WONDERLAND,FOR A KID LIKE ME IT WAS LIKE HEAVEN, MY TWO BIGGEST HOBBIES AT THE TIME WERE COWBOY MOVIES AND SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES AND MOVIES OF THOSE GENRE WERE CONTINUOUSLY COMING OUT LIKE HOT CAKES!,COMEDY MOVIES WERE ALSO IN THE MIX, SO TWO TIMES A WEEK WITH 25 OR 50 CENTS I WOULD GET TO SEE TWO MOVIES AT THE LOCAL MOVIE THEATERS ,WESTERN OR SCIENCE FICTION SOMETIMES ONE OF EACH PLUS A MOVIE SHORT USIALLY A STOOGES,ABBOTT&COSTELLO, OUR GANG, OR THE EAST SIDE KIDS AND COMING ATTRACTIONS.
THE SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES OF THE FIFTIES HAVE COME NOW TO HAVE A BAD NAME FOR THE BAD QUALITY,WHICH FOR THE MOST PART IS TRUE,THE PRODUCERS WOULD QUICKLY GIVE TO THE AUDIENCES WHAT THE AUDIENCES WANTED, WHICH WERE MONSTERS,CHEAP THRILLS,SENSATIONALISMS ETC, BUT ALSO THE FIFTIES PRODUCED THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES WHOSE QUALITY STANDS UP HEAD AND SHOULDERS TO THE ONES OF MANY YEARS LATER FULL OF VIOLENCE AND LITTLE OF SCIENCE ,SPECIAL EFFECTS IS THE ONLY IMPROVEMENT TO THE 50S.
WITH TIME I BUILT UP A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES ON BETA AND VHS AND THEN WHEN THERE WAS NOT MUCH MORE TO ADD I STARTED WITH MOVIE POSTERS, MOSTLY MADE UP OF SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES AND A FEW OTHERS,I REGRET NOT BUYING EXPENSIVE ONES LIKE DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN,I WOULD ONLY BUY THE ONES THAT I LIKED, LIKE "THE LOST MISSILE" OF THE PHOTO ABOVE AND SOME OTHERS.
SOME OF THE FIFTIES SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES I WOULD RECOMMEND TO ALL WHO HAVEN'T SEEM THEM ARE THE ONES LIKE "DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL", "FORBIDDEN PLANET", "FLIGHT TO MARS", "ROCKETSHIP XM", "MAN FROM PLANET X", "ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS"."THIS ISLAND EARTH", "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE", "WAR OF THE WORLDS", "BAMBOO SAUCER', "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS", "I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE", THE LAST TWO NEVER MIND THE CORNY TITLE,THEY ARE EXCELLENT MOVIES. YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I MEAN WHEN YOU SEE THEM.THERE ARE MORE WHICH I DON'T HAVE TO MENTION.
NOW FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, THE REASON FOR THIS POST , FOR THE TITLE OF THIS POST AND FOR THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE PICTURED ON THIS POST IS THAT SOME OF THOSE MOVIES SOMEDAY WILL COME TO BE AT LEAST OF SOME REALITY, LIKE NOW ,IN A HUNDRED YEARS OR IN A THOUSAND YEARS.
THIS TIME, SO SOON,BECAUSE WE HAVE AN OBJECT WHICH SCIENTIST ASTRONOMERS HAVE SEEN ,STUDIED AND MAPPED,WHICH IS APPROACHING EARTH FROM OUTER SPACE AND TRAVELING AT A SLOW ASTRONOMICAL SPEED OF LITTLE OVER THREE THOUSAND KILOMETERS PER HOUR , WILL BE APPROACHING EARTH SO CLOSE THAT EARTH WILL SNATCH IT FROM ITS WAY AND MAKE IT A SECOND TERRESTRIAL MOON AT LEAST UNTIL 2021 UNTIL THE OBJECT WILL BREAK FREE AND RESUME ITS UNENDING SPACE VOYAGE.
SCIENTISTS ARE NOT EXACTLY SURE YET WHAT IT IS ,WHERE ITS COMING FROM AND WHERE IT'S GOING BUT AFTER STUDYING IT THEY THINK IT MIGHT BE PART OF A LOST MISSILE LAUNCHED FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON IN 1966 THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAND AND STUDY THE MOON, THEY LOST CONTROL ,PART SEPARATED AND PART CRASHED INTO THE MOON. THE PART THAT SEPARATED CONTINUED ON AN UNKNOWN TRAJECTORY AND FINALLY TURNED AROUND AND IS NOW COMING BACK IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. WE SHALL KNOW MORE AS OCTOBER APPROACHES AND TIME FOR EARTH TO CAPTURE AND MAKE IT A SECOND MOON FOR WHAT IS EXPECTED SEVEN OR EIGHT MONTHS.
IN THE MOVIE "THE LOST MISSILE" SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A MISSILE LIKE OBJECT ON A TRAJECTORY CLOSE TO EARTH, A EUROPEAN NATION PROBABLY RUSSIA SENDS A ROCKET TO TRY AND KNOCK IT OUT,THE ROCKET HITS IT BUT MANAGES TO CHANGE ITS TRAJECTORY IN A WAY THAT IT GETS IN AN ORBIT AROUND EARTH CAUSING GREAT DESTRUCTION AS IT GOES AROUND,THE CITY OF OTTAWA IS DESTROYED AND NEW YORK CITY HAS TO BE EVACUATED, IN THE END A PLUTONIUM CHARGE IS PLACED ON ANOTHER ROCKET LOADED AND LAUNCHED BY ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS THAT FINALLY SUCCESSFULLY KNOCKS THE OBJECT OUT OF THE SKY SACRIFICING HIS LIFE TO SAVE THE WORLD.
WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS THING APPROACHING EARTH PRESENTLY AND SOON ENTERING EARTH ORBIT I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT ABOUT "THE LOST MISSILE" WHICH IS IN MY MOVIE AND POSTER COLLECTION,I HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN AGES AND MIGHT DO SO SOON.
MEANWHILE DO NOT WORRY ONE BIT, PLANET EARTH IS SAFE AT LEAST FOR THIS ENCOUNTER WITH THIS LOST MISSILE.
NEW YORK,SEPTEMBER 26,2020
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