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  There’s been remarkable video bouncing around the internet this week, and it’s surprising because this video has no adorable goats or cars flipping over or even a dude getting whacked in the junk by some flying something. It’s just a person in front of a bookshelf talking to another person in front of a wall. It’s what was said in this video that’s interesting, and who said it. I suppose the quickest summary of what went down is that a sitting United States Representative asked a Forest Service official if they could, somehow, change the orbit of the moon. As far as I’m aware, this is the first time the Forest Service (or the Bureau of Land Management, which was also addressed here) has ever been requested to alter the orbital properties of any celestial object in any sort of remotely-official capacity, and this alone seems like a sort of transportation milestone, which makes it worth covering. Here’s the clip in question: ...and a transcript, if that helps: First, I’d lik...