RIP Neil Armstrong

unless you want to know the truth

Yeah, not even the slightest bit tempted.

Can someone delete dylannn's posts and block him from this thread, plz? Is that doable? I mean, we've been to the moon and all, so surely we can do this.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if in 1000 years, the only three figures the average person can name from the 20th century are Einstein, Hitler, and Armstrong.

can't wait to hear the "walk into a bar" joke

via my friend on twitter: "Whenever I would think making web sites was hard, I'd remind myself we landed on the moon with the computing power of my MacBook. #RIP Neil"

RIP an American hero

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:32 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah Neil Armstrong was an inspiration to the whole bloody universe, this goes further than it being an American thing. He left our planet to be the first person to step on the moon. Even grisled former USSR officials from the 60s should be wanting to honour him tonight. He did something for all of us.

Alex Balk
‏@AlexBalk

Michael Stipe: "Cha-CHING!"

lmao

haha

As tcote just noted on twitter in turn:

"Sting is probably thinking the same thing."

Many years later, it was revealed that Armstrong totally saved the moon landing by manually overriding the autopilot when it became apparent the area it was aiming for was far too dangerous, then flying the lunar module to a safer place, and setting it down with all of five seconds' worth of fuel left! At the time, NASA never let out a peep about this. Apparently his heart rate was up around 150, but his hands and mind were steady.

RIP, neil.

very appropriate today, sadly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DMlxrGIi8U

love that Mekons song
RIP Neil, you brave brave man

I just called my parents to see if they knew and I had to tell them. They were less emotional than I expected them to be, but we had a nice convo about how if someone is going to represent humans to the cosmos, he was a good person and not an asshole. RIP Neil Armstrong.

Statement from Armstrong's family: http://neilarmstronginfo.com/statement/

For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

aw man

RIP

RIP dylannn you brave brave man

Just posted that on twitter, it's lovely.

Anyone with any scepticism at all should go and spend a few hours at Kennedy, wandering around the exhibits, seeing the technicians at work, speaking to astronauts.

trolling to the moon xp

RIP buddy

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS11_TEC.PDF

i'm just going to be dr. morbius here for a sec.

the moon landing was perfectly staged propaganda. fifty years later we still don't give a shit about exploration if it isn't exploitation first. neil armstrong an unfortunate hero for everyone who loves lying to themselves.

oh yeah? did you miss when we proved relativity?

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS11_PAO.PDF

^^ where the poetry is

also all technology flies like that. you think columbus was looking for *THE TRUTH*

da vinci: smoke trees, fuck bitches, get paid

of course not, that's the point. xp

Well my naive world has been blown wide open.

also all technology flies like that. you think columbus was looking for *THE TRUTH*

maybe he was looking for THREE CHORDS.

well tell you what, when the aliens get to the decrepit wreck of planet earth, they'll see a shining knight on a desolate plain, and you know what it's not morbius and morbid nihilism

they won't shed a tear for your childish bitching

Second half of a 60 Minutes interview he did, worth a look if you havent seen him speak about it.

The thing I always loved about him was how walking on the moon for him was nothing more than doing a job that was asked of him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzbnSymE2w

xp also matt p i just tore up your ticket for the colony ship

xp

The government's purpose was propaganda. That does not mean that the purpose of the people who worked on the mission was propaganda. Their purpose was to get people to the moon and back, more or less safely, and they did it. As for Armstrong, it is a rare man who would risk his life in a tin can 250,000 miles in space, simply because he wanted to propagandize some commies.

fifty years later we still don't give a shit about exploration if it isn't exploitation first.

Who are the constituents of this perfectly-placed 'we'? Because it sure as shit doesn't include me.

he put a mirror there so we could prove relativity and he brought back rocks

also he took a picture of an earthrise which has done more for the environmental movement than any number of fools lining up w/ lattes in manhattan traffic

When Neil Armstrong was on his way to the Moon, the New York Times printed a correction, for mocking a rocket pioneer in 1920

RIP

Many xposts: Matt, you could say the same thing about every soldier who fought for their country. how about the fact that Neil had the stones to do a job that had every chance of killing him & his crew. Have you watched the test footage? They may have been pawns in your eyes but don't think that dimishes their feats in any way

Do not feed the moon trolls today.

RIP Neil. One small step indeed.

he did it for 5000 years of humans too

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/500269/500269,1306661017,2/stock-vector-egyptian-sun-boat-78156865.jpg

the roach is the pawn of the military industrial complex stealing fire from the gods in the solar barge

that should be the "roach in the solar barge"

You mean: The scarab is rolling the sun across the sky like a ball of shit.

Can someone delete dylannn's posts and block him from this thread, plz? Is that doable? I mean, we've been to the moon and all, so surely we can do this.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

board sanitiser: can't recommend enough for those persistent stains

It's not exclusively N.A., obviously, but I've enjoyed watching "For All Mankind" - and paging through its companion coffee table book - with my kids. They have no idea of the time, effort, courage and money it took to achieve what they did, let alone bring back those movies and pictures, and yet they could still connect on a primal level with the beauty and wonder of the images.

i was kidding, i think he just holds the sun like dung as it sails across the sky?

but the pharoahs built solar barges to sail to the sun on when they died

iirc akhenaten compared man and god to vermin and sun

so the moon mission is actually a holy quest

a moonship journey, if you will

― the late great, Saturday, August 25, 2012 5:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

nice.

;-)

now, for the other view

http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2009/07/53-space-exploration.html

not sure if this is hard-trolling or not but in honor of matt p ...

I'm not so sure we even deserve a space program.

One thing the obits have brought home for me is that there isn't a really great iconic picture of Armstrong on the surface of the moon because the great famous shots were taken by Armstrong of Aldrin. But this Reddit post claiming to be from the head of press relations for the mission says that the famous photo of an astronaut saluting the flag was misattributed and is actually of Armstrong.

So I've spent ten minutes staring at the photos trying to match up any distinguishing features of the suits or the patterns of moon dust on them to work out if this might be true, until finally it hit me: wow, these are people, on the moon, with MOON DUST up their legs. And this was too overwhelmingly immense and awesome to continue with my nitpicking investigation.

sort of a half-baked blog post linked there but wow, i never knew about that editorial(?) from the NYT in 1969:

For all his resplendent glory as he steps forth on another planet, man is still a pathetic creature, able to master outer space and yet unable to control his inner self; able to conquer new worlds yet unable to live in peace on this one, able to create miracles of science and yet unable properly to house and clothe and feed all his fellow men, able eventually to colonize an alien and hostile environment and yet increasingly unable to come to terms with the nurturing environment that is his home.

Aldrin:

I am very saddened to learn of the passing of Neil Armstrong today. Neil and I trained together as technical partners but were also good friends who will always be connected through our participation in the mission of Apollo 11. Whenever I look at the moon it reminds me of the moment over four decades ago when I realized that even though we were farther away from earth than two humans had ever been, we were not alone. Virtually the entire world took that memorable journey with us. I know I am joined by millions of others in mourning the passing of a true American hero and the best pilot I ever knew. My friend Neil took the small step but giant leap that changed the world and will forever be remembered as a landmark moment in human history.

Higgledy-piggledy
Armstrong the astronaut
rode in a rocket ship
up to the moon.

"Not made of cheese," said the
Wapakonetian.
"Sounds kind of crazy, but
it’s a balloon."

― weatheringdaleson, Friday, September 14, 2007 7:45 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

RIP

I remember the Moon Shot miniseries on TNT, I think. Barry Corbin narrated it, and they cut back & forth from archival footage to present day interviews. I remember Gene Kranz breaking down on camera and being comforted by the offscreen interviewer when recounting the Apollo 13 rescue efforts.

Heh; I'm just now remembering that my gifted class teacher got me out of school one day in 5th grade to go see Jim Lovell speak in Flint, MI.

HE TOOK THEREMIN MUSIC INTO SPACE. WHAT A DUDE.

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/03/neil-armstrong-finally-reveals-his.html

Woah

Hey, I have that Dr Samuel Hoffman collection!

sort of a half-baked blog post linked there but wow, i never knew about that editorial(?) from the NYT in 1969:

For all his resplendent glory as he steps forth on another planet, man is still a pathetic creature, able to master outer space and yet unable to control his inner self; able to conquer new worlds yet unable to live in peace on this one, able to create miracles of science and yet unable properly to house and clothe and feed all his fellow men, able eventually to colonize an alien and hostile environment and yet increasingly unable to come to terms with the nurturing environment that is his home.

The very first "if they can put a man on the moon, why can't they . . ." I guess.

it's a little more of a ... "let's take this moment to reflect on how great we can be, and try to bring that greatness to our efforts at home"

LBJ called that The Great Society program, which actually worked much better than the conservative propaganda would have us believe. Unfortunately, in order to sell the idea, the liberals overpromised on the results.

Hey, I have that Dr Samuel Hoffman collection!

Me too!

0 of 57 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars No Man has ever Walked on the Moon, January 16, 2012
By iruri - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (Paperback)
I won't be reading this book. It is based on a Real Moon Landing, therefore I will not be reading a book touted as Real based on a Pack of Lies.

carlos ‏@famouscrab
i think when they were maybe reading the resumes for apolo 11 they didnt even get past the names. BUZZ? MAN WITH STRONG ARM? F*KIN SWEET

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/687709main_armstrong_burial_cropped_946-710.jpg

What it was like to hang out with Neil Armstrong over the past couple of years.

Read a whole bunch of books about the Apollo program because of this thread and a few more are still waiting.

what did you read? recommendations plz

(xp)That was awesome. Thanks, Chris.

After the good book with the title Moonshot, the one by Dan Parry, I read Moondust, by Andrew Smith, where he interviews all the surviving moonwalkers and tries to find out what it was like- rave review from Arthur C. Clarke and J. G. Ballard! Then Andrew Chaikin's A Man On The Moon, which is kind of a standard work that narrates all the Apollo missions which, although it has its longueurs when they are on the ground, does a really good job once they are in flight. Then the most excellent How Apollo Flew to the Moon, by W. David Woods, which goes into as much technical as you could want without reading the actual NASA manuals. Paged through Al Worden's Falling to Earth, saving up Mike Collin's Carrying The Fire, which is supposed to be the best of the "nose cone histories."

Mike Collins. Lately my apostrophes have started floating in microgravity.

Did not read Gene Cernan's book or Chris Kraft's, nor Deke!, although the last is supposed to be pretty good. Nor 2012's Forever Young.

Also, please feel free to help answer this important question if you can: Apollo 8 anniversary RFI: which astronaut brought along "Sleepwalk" on his spaceman Walkman?.

this is p cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HdPi9Ikhk&feature=youtu.be

*Bump* to RIP the Last Man, Gene Cernan.

Rip lance armstrong, inventor of the trumpet