RIP Neil Armstrong

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.

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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

tender spots! we all need our saints. i agree that symbolically the earth images run counter to the mission. doesn't make the hero-worship any less nauseating. and it doesn't make me nihilistic to point out that calling the moon landing a great accomplishment is completely ideological. xps

otoh space is cool

oh okay so you don't have any heroes or saints? or are yours just not nauseating like the ones us proles worship?

we all need our saints.

just because:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5gjfN5lns

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/182376_o.gif

i'm not above hero worship but i try to recognize its limits, what it actually accomplishes and when it becomes something else usually en masse and i hope/trust at my best we can all do this. xp

Thing about US propaganda and the moon and all that. The cultural narrative to me has always seemed more or less that it was fulfilling Kennedy's dream, which was from a cool and nice and idealistic time before he was assassinated. Neil was pretty humble about his role in all of it, which is something i greatly admire, and he had the skills and wits to pull of some much-needed last minute SAVING THE DAY type actions, so that seems pretty heroic too. Undermining it by saying it's just a product of US propaganda just seems like empty "Sheeple!" talk. If the mission was to go to the moon and shoot missiles at Russia along the way i would be cynical. But this didn't involve physically attacking another country, and him evoking "One giant leap for mankind" rather than "One giant leap for America" sort of takes away from that propaganda talk anyways. All in all, a pretty righteous dude. Pretty much everyone I've read about the was involved in the mission saw it as something bigger than themselves, and bigger than the Cold War.

ok maybe not all of us.

that was glib and lame. i guess i made my point. anyway roll on being inspired everyone.

calling the moon landing a great accomplishment is completely ideological

But it WAS a great achievement. I don't have a horse in this race, I'm not American and I'm not blind to the fact that you guys have done an awful lot of terrible, horrible things (hey, so have we! Woo!). But to deny that PUTTING A HUMAN BEING ON THE MOON is a great accomplishment is just insane.

if a carefully staged engineering exercise is really your idea of a great accomplishment than i'm just... sad i guess.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDB4_y8Nbf0/UDkqyIVJfLI/AAAAAAAAn_c/GscZ2uuovRI/s640/Scan10001.JPG

Neal Stephenson, Neil Armstrong, Neil Gaiman

you're definitely sad, yeah

i mean it's basically the same as the 1980 olympics but replace hockey fans with technophiles xp

you distrust the "en masse" idea because your game is to look down on the majority of people

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