MOONMAN
― Farrah Abraham had many songs/ many songs had Farrah Abraham (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
so he was basically a good bureaucrat
instead of what, an organic farmer or martin luther king?
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
most teachers are good bureaucrats, as are nurses, you going to shit on them next
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
So much of me doesn't want to feed the troll...espeically in this thread on this day but I have been so sad for hours and then to see you say all this crap, goddammit Matt, you are so full of shit about this whole subject that it's personally offensive to me.
Maybe on a social and political level the moon landing and the 1980 US hockey team are similar, but if that's the only lens you're going to view it through then you are insane. The only way those two feats are similar is if the Hockey team had to invent the game of hockey, create the wood itself for their hockey sticks because such a material didn't exist before they played, and then if the stadium they played in ran the risk of losing oxygen at any given moment and or bursting into flame.
If you don't personally care about space exploration that's one thing, but don't come in here with your bullshit handwaving and try to imply that Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission didn't achieve something scientifically remarkable. It was an inarguable FEAT and you should get over yourself.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
you post a lot on i love nfl huh
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
also winning a game of hockey would have to be an eternal human aspiration (except for matt p)
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
many philosophers would argue that as a mutual appreciation of athletic beauty, the olympics are one of the highest achievements of human civilization
OH BUT CREDIT CARD COMMERCIALS
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, more cuntitude than I expected on this thread.. I really can't thing of anything more technically complex and demanding of a humans bravery than travelling 250,000 miles to a hostile environment with no certainty that they could return safely. I'm just about the generation that remembered the Apollo missions as something inspiring and wonderful and smdh at anyone who demeans that achievement.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
i started free-form writing a week ago, asking myself questions and trying to be as real as i can cuz i've got issues. does writing help you? how about, say, recording yourself. i.e. what's the best way to look at problems under a clear light so u can start untangling them. what do you think??
― bind music up, scratch my discs up (Matt P), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:03 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
troll ilx
― jveggra va pbqr (Lamp), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:04 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― omar little, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
peas in a pod there. fucking glue sniffers giggling outside a dairy queen.
― balls, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
for real though a little depressing to think at least one of those two is an adult irl
― balls, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
lamp's more adult than you'll ever be unfortunately
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
probably not the one dabbling in free form writing and trying to be real as he can. unlike that bureucrat neil armstrong.
― balls, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
haha whatever
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
'unfortunately'
― balls, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
why did you use the word 'unfortunately' there?
good "humble" bureaucrats are cool they just don't usually inspire 500+ rip threads.
xp because i like you
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
"the best way to look at problems under a clear light so u can start untangling them? free form writing and keeping it real bro." - karl popper
― balls, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:12 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk what this is beyond PFFT PEOPLE DOING THEIR JOBS but yeah like good for him he was good at doing his job. your 'what's to admire about getting a man into space' is profoundly lolworthy.
-i guess the earth pictures tease at the possibility of a transformation.
philosophically generous of you, like if only they'd maybe shot at a better angle they could have teased something really deep out of it?
http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/apollo/img/earthrise.jpg
― very sexual album (schlump), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
This cover seems even more apropos now... ;_;
http://www.andysowards.com/blog/assets/neil-armstrong-leaving-for-the-moon-time-life-magazine-cover.jpeg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
anyway RIP moonman, you seemed like a decent guy who was probably more repelled by hero worship than anyone.
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Much as you can get a clear sense of someone's character when you see how they behave when under duress, so too can you get a sense of how big of an IRL douche someone is by how they comport themselves in an RIP thread.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
*farts*
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
brb
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
Feels like an appropriate time for this beautiful, beautiful song.It's 4 in the morning, July in '69; me and my sister, we crept down like shadowsThey're bringing the moon right down to our sitting room, static and silence and a monochrome visionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QEtyms1sGU
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
matt p did you know that you can be impressed by the sheer physical magnitude of an achievement and also at the very same time think that the forces that led to it were bogus? saying 'my god' at the blast of a nuke isn't the same thing as saying 'we should do that all the time'
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
this is so not the same as a nuke, though?! it couldn't be more different?!?
http://whalen.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/area51.jpg
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
51 HINT 51
51%
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/207184_464560156898334_1342280409_n.jpg
don't know if this is real
― how's life, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
matt what do you think of this ish involving a famous german composer:
Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been. The fact that spirits achieve with one act something which we in music could never dream of, that people practise ten years madly, fanatically for a concert. And then die. [Hesitantly.] And that is the greatest work of art that exists for the whole Cosmos. Just imagine what happened there. There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance, and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection. In one moment. I couldn't do that. Compared to that, we are nothing, as composers. [...] It is a crime, you know of course, because the people did not agree to it. They did not come to the "concert". That is obvious. And nobody had told them: "You could be killed in the process." (Stockhausen 2002, 76–77.)
btw no one died when neil armstrong and his buddies landed on the moon, no one was killed in the process
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
or: ppl going to the moon was literally spectacular
well we are the society of the spectacle so
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
The Kennedy Museum & NASA put together a great website for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, it's still up and running & worth checking out.
You can go through all stages of the mission with mission control audio the whole way through (even more fun if you do it with headphones on :D ), tons of photos and film from all the various stages. Good stuff
www.wechoosethemoon.org
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
no i feel you, that stuff wows me too and space is cool, seriously xp
― ayonanas (Matt P), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
if only we could all be cool bro
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
it was real
― how's life, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
basically i reserve the right to be able to say 'holy shit man lands on fucking moon' and not be castigated for not staying on message about all of the bad things in the world. also the guy that was the first guy there died today, and if that gives some people a reason to pause and think 'we could be doing better, cooler things than letting poor people die and killing people with robots' then i am a-ok with it
like if we are the society of the spectacle, at least give 'em better stuff than IEDs and crowd shootings
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
Matt P & dylannn:
http://i.imgur.com/Tnr5r.gif
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
grousing about the wastefulness of space exploration is why our kids are terrible at science, btw
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'd agree with that.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
canks was banned for less than this we put a man on the moon so that our generation could listen to moonwave
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
ilx: we worship this heromatt p: you would certainly revolt him as much as you revolt me
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
The space race was a big enough endeavor for different groups of people to exploit it different ways, but the engineers and scientists and rocket builders and astronauts and flight crews and cafeteria workers and janitors and gift shop employees and everyone who wasn't an elected official or a conspiratorial douchehammer realized that the purest purpose of reaching another heavenly object, one that no human in the history of history had ever stepped foot on before, was the most amazing thing that had and likely will ever happen (until we find another form of life).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
ffs, going to the moon isn't just like driving to a fucking rollercoaster park 300 miles away.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
what was cankles banned for?
― how's life, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
he made an offhand joke on the alex chilton rip thread. tbf chilton did make power pop.
― balls, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Something hilariously surreal about this whole thing: Pres Nixon addresses the quarantined Apollo 11 astronauts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU0B-loHHTM&t=4m24s
That line where he tells them that he made a date with their wives; nice awkward moment there, Tricky
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
it's amazing that the man's natural modesty and understatement (his contention that going to the moon was just his job) is being used against him (that he was merely a "bureaucrat").
boy, america has changed a lot between 1969 and now.
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm that doesn't seem to want to play
Try again. Start it at around 5 min for the arrival of Nixon etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU0B-loHHTM
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link