You know, in 50 years the Canadian Arrowhead cultists might well succeed in their long-running effort to steal credit for the Moon landings. Who, after all, would believe that a backward country of creationists and other superstitious luddites could ever have led the way in anything scientific, let alone the greatest feat of the age.

For those who don’t know, the Arrowheads are Canadian nationalists who assert among other things that the cancellation of their fabulous Avro CF-105 aircraft in 1959 allowed the superior Canadian engineering talent to join the US space program. Further, according to Arrowheads, the program would have failed without this input since escaped German war criminals were not quite up to the job and Americans of course are pointedly discounted. Needless to say, there is no justification for this claim, since only 32 fomer Avro engineers joined NASA contractors or NASA itself, compared to thousands of Americans and a thousand or more non-Canadian foreigners.