RIP Neil Armstrong

[Turvey]

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, after suffering complications from heart surgery, NBC News is reporting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193587/Neil-Armstrong-dead-Famed-astronaut-man-moon-dies-aged-82.html#ixzz24aUrPblA

[ark_ader]

Well he lived a good life and achieved more than any of us.

We all have to go sometime.

[Well Fed Games]

I can't believe he kept up that moon landing charade until his death.


j/k... of all the "firsts" to be, "first man on the moon" is pretty awesome. RIP.

[SavannahLion]

I can't believe he kept up that moon landing charade until his death.


j/k... of all the "firsts" to be, "first man on the moon" is pretty awesome. RIP.

Yeah, dig that one up. Until anyone can prove that lame theory, I'll lean towards the, "we landed," camp.

[SavannahLion]

Came back a nut.  What did he experience out there?

When you look at the specs of those early rockets, you realize he was already nuts.  IIRC one of the first control systems was really a wire wound and epoxied circuit board. Entirely of 3 input NOR or NAND gates I think. 

Strapping a humongous rocket to your butt controlled by a hand built calculator with less processing power than a 8008 certainly qualifies him as nuts. And for that, he earns my respect.

[wp34]

Buzz Aldrin's been on the record several times saying he starts puking punching whenever anyone asks him.

Fixed that for you.

[SavannahLion]

There's bound to be some mental issues being trapped in a craft with zero chance of escape eight some-odd days.

In anycase, there is the lunar laser ranging retroreflector array and the Japanese flyby of one of the landing sites and the subsequent flybys by NASA probes.

While we're at it, might as well take those pictures of heaven taken by Hubble into consideration, you know the ones. They appeared in an issue Weekly World News.

Given that I've personally worked with technology from the 30's that makes.our modern versions look pathetic, I have little doubt that we were (world wide) fully capable of landing a human on the moon.  What makes the hoax thing so annoying is that the vast majority of people who continue to perpetuate it prop their theories up with crap and anecdotal stories. Right alongside the Philadelphia Experiment, UFO's building the pyramids, South American Tunnels and Perpetual Motion. It's a bunch of half assed theories propogated by people who really have no idea what they're trying to disprove or prove in the first place.

Of course, this country is so overwhelmingly full of morons that's it's stunningly easy to "disprove" any historical event. A woman at work once asked me if Lincoln (yes, Abe) really did hunt vampires. I had no ---smurfing--- clue what she was talking about until I found this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/

I sincerely wish I was joking when I say I would rather have been in personal company of PBJ than this dumb bimbo.

[Le Chuck]

Well he lived a good life and achieved more than any of us.

Maybe to date.  Depends on how you measure it.  I've got plans... big plans!

[trekking95]

I was really into the "space" stuff as a kid, especially the moon landing. So yeah, this hits me harder then an actor's death would. 

If anyone else goes and says "stop RIP threads" or "the landing was a fake" I will personally send them to the moon landing spot via the ASHPD express!

And yeah that picture of Heaven is a fake. Molecules of all matter in Heaven move at the speed of light, no telescope could see it.

[trekking95]

Well he lived a good life and achieved more than any of us.

Maybe to date.  Depends on how you measure it.  I've got plans... big plans!

Thinking up "big" plans achieves nothing, only doing your plans does. And most of those "big" plans never happen.
And the only person to really achieve more would have to go to Mars. But even then there will only be the first man on the moon once.

[Well Fed Games]

j/k...

yes, I am quoting myself. Because j/k means just kidding. As in, no reason to debate here if we landed on the moon- seriously, please save us all the trouble.

[trekking95]

j/k...

yes, I am quoting myself. Because j/k means just kidding. As in, no reason to debate here if we landed on the moon- seriously, please save us all the trouble.

My portal you to the moon thing was a joke too. 

[Howard_Casto]

His death represents the end of an era really.  There is a reason people don't get excited about space exploration anymore, it's because we don't explore space anymore!

After the apollo 13 disaster, NASA and the american public went chicken on us.  Since then people don't go anywhere in space.  Yeah the ISS has people in it, but it's just in orbit.  I equate that to traveling halfway around the globe for the super bowl and just staying in the parking lot once you get there.  The mars probes and stuff are nice, but if you don't send people then it doesn't really count. 

There were a lot of bad things going on in america back then, it really wasn't the simplier "better" times that many people claim it was, but one thing we did have going for us, was that the nation could rally together for the sake of dreaming.  With the tech we had back then, putting a person in space, much less the moon should have been impossible, but America, as a nation decided that we would spare no expense and waste no effort in trying anyway.  And guess what?  It turns out that if you can get enough people behind something, the impossible IS possible. 

If we as a nation and we as citizens of this planet could only unify ourselves again, like we did back then, it would be possible to fix all of the massive problems facing us today.  I am regretful that I was born into a generation that will probably never have this sense of unity. 

So to me Neil Armstrong is more than just some guy that rode to the dead rock revolving around us and back again, he symbolizes a point in our history when anything was possible.  A time that I genuinely hope will come again.  He will be missed.

[Le Chuck]

And yeah that picture of Heaven is a fake. Molecules of all matter in Heaven move at the speed of light, no telescope could see it.

Are you talking about this pic?



It was in the weekly world news.  The same publication that unveiled bat-boy.  The SAME publication that the secretive men in black use to determine what is really going on in the world.  Fake?  FAKE!  I think not. 

oh, and can you post the physics book you took your statement about heavenly particle speeds from?  I'm sure it's right, just want to review your source of empirical fact. 

[Hoopz]

What makes the hoax thing so annoying is that the vast majority of people who continue to perpetuate it prop their theories up with crap and anecdotal stories. Right alongside the Philadelphia Experiment, UFO's building the pyramids, South American Tunnels and Perpetual Motion. It's a bunch of half assed theories propogated by people who really have no idea like X.

FTFY

[SNAAKE]

wait so someone actually made a picture of "heaven"?

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHHAHAH

[SavannahLion]

And yeah that picture of Heaven is a fake. Molecules of all matter in Heaven move at the speed of light, no telescope could see it.

Are you talking about this pic?



It was in the weekly world news.  The same publication that unveiled bat-boy.  The SAME publication that the secretive men in black use to determine what is really going on in the world.  Fake?  FAKE!  I think not. 

oh, and can you post the physics book you took your statement about heavenly particle speeds from?  I'm sure it's right, just want to review your source of empirical fact.

That's the one. WWN had it wrong though. That's not Heaven. That's Atlantis. You see, Atlantis was at threat of sinking into the ocean, that's true. But the Atlantians, with their advanced technology, figured out how to lift the entire city into the sky. At first, they just floated from place to place, content to trade with other cities but after a falling out with the Aztecs, the Atlantians developed a new kind of shield to protect their city atmposphere and rocketed the city into outer space where they live today.

I have a sneaky suspicion that Heaven is actually another city pre-Atlantian. For reasons unknown, that city also lifted off and left Earth. The Atlantians discovered this and that is exactly where they're headed now, to meet our ancestors, the Heavenites.

[ark_ader]

You people scare me. 

[SavannahLion]

You people scare me. 

Yeah, I used to be into that kind of stuff back in High School. Chariots of the Gods, OOBE, Aliens, Russian technology, Loch Ness and cousins, that whole thing.

Then I came to a realization. Since I couldn't necessarily apply any of that "knowledge" to earn myself any money, what worth was it? Perpetual Motion/over unity/free power is fine and dandy, but what every single one of those morons don't realize is that unless I can get a working one in my basement/attic it doesn't do me a lick of good, conspiracy theory by the power companies be damned.

But I digress, once you have the basics down, coming up with a new crackpot theory is stunningly easy. Even better, you're bound to find some nut that believes any ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- you come up with. Hubbard is proof of that.

[trekking95]

And yeah that picture of Heaven is a fake. Molecules of all matter in Heaven move at the speed of light, no telescope could see it.

Are you talking about this pic?



It was in the weekly world news.  The same publication that unveiled bat-boy.  The SAME publication that the secretive men in black use to determine what is really going on in the world.  Fake?  FAKE!  I think not. 

oh, and can you post the physics book you took your statement about heavenly particle speeds from?  I'm sure it's right, just want to review your source of empirical fact.

Physics books that I have seen don't have that stuff, so I see where you're going with this. 
Actually I might be a bit off on that, but hey I'm no astrophysicist. But you know, Hugh Ross is. Read some of his books, they are written so you almost have to be an astrophysicist to fully understand them. But then you have to believe that sort of thing anyway.....
This is a RIP thread for Neil Armstrong, lets not screw it up with religious discussions, fake pictures or Atlantis theories. 

[trekking95]

You people scare me. 

Indeed.

[Le Chuck]

This is a RIP thread for Neil Armstrong, lets not screw it up with religious discussions, fake pictures or Atlantis theories. 

Wait... wut?  You bring up heaven, particle physics, and the christian creationist Hugh Ross but don't want to discuss any of those things?  That's cool two can play at that game.  Um... Legos, double dutch jump rope competitions, and... uh... Paul Giamatti.  Please only discuss the late Mr. Armstrong.






Don't think about elephants either! 

[trekking95]

This is a RIP thread for Neil Armstrong, lets not screw it up with religious discussions, fake pictures or Atlantis theories. 

Wait... wut?  You bring up heaven, particle physics, and the christian creationist Hugh Ross but don't want to discuss any of those things?  That's cool two can play at that game.  Um... Legos, double dutch jump rope competitions, and... uh... Paul Giamatti.  Please only discuss the late Mr. Armstrong.

Don't think about elephants either!

I didn't start the Heaven topic, it was being talked about already. I just don't like getting too deep into religious stuff on forums because it is one of the top ways to start a fight and get banned. If it is allowed here I guess it's okay then, but still the thread will get too off-topic.
And I am not trying to get out of discussing it, just there is a time and place (or forum) for it.

[Gray_Area]

I like Paul Giamatti.


I've experienced some things I can't explain. But I can describe them. I'm fortunate in that they have for me no moral/political/philosophical implications.

There's bound to be some mental issues being trapped in a craft with zero chance of escape eight some-odd days.

I guess sensory deprivation tanking was a little late on the scene.....

Given that I've personally worked with technology from the 30's that makes.our modern versions look pathetic, I have little doubt that we were (world wide) fully capable of landing a human on the moon.

Like?

[Vigo]

Given that I've personally worked with technology from the 30's that makes.our modern versions look pathetic, I have little doubt that we were (world wide) fully capable of landing a human on the moon.

Like?

Zepplins. They just don't make good zepplins these days.

[Ond]

I'm not disrespecting him, but none of them came back able to describe what it felt like to be on the moon. 

yeah they did, read Jim Irwins 'To Rule The Night', the first half of the book is all about exactly that.  While Aldrin had a nervous breakdown afterward, Irwin had more of a religious experience.

Book is out of print, but there are copies still around.  Great read.

[Gray_Area]

Given that I've personally worked with technology from the 30's that makes.our modern versions look pathetic, I have little doubt that we were (world wide) fully capable of landing a human on the moon.

Like?

Zepplins. They just don't make good zepplins these days.

Hey, I watched Forever Young the other night. I know that's real ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.