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Title: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: TheoK on August 26, 2012, 04:15:09 AM
EDIT:

First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825)
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: Al Swearegen on August 26, 2012, 04:59:35 AM
First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 (http://www.qruiser.com/?id=122176)

Fail link Lit  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: Callaway on August 26, 2012, 05:00:30 AM
Sad.
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: lutra on August 26, 2012, 05:20:00 AM
Turned out that it was a giant leap for mankind indeed. The aspiration to go to the moon, back then, brought 'us' a LOT of the technologies we almost take for granted nowadays.

Well, may he rest in peace..
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: Al Swearegen on August 26, 2012, 05:54:58 AM
Indeed.
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 26, 2012, 07:54:21 AM
  Neil Armstrong was BRAVE!  May he rest in peace.  :viking:
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: odeon on August 26, 2012, 10:31:37 AM
Very sad. :(
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 26, 2012, 11:51:25 AM
I always wished that he was more publicly active.  Aldrin would attend your Bar Mitzvah for a ten-spot.

When I think about what these men did it terrifies me.  RIP.
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: Bastet on August 26, 2012, 08:43:22 PM
for some reason my brain was thinkong Lance Armstrong. 
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: odeon on August 26, 2012, 11:06:03 PM
for some reason my brain was thinkong Lance Armstrong. 

Yeah, they are very similar. Both got high. One used a rocket, the other-- :zoinks:
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: Dexter Morgan on August 27, 2012, 06:01:24 AM
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I always wished that he was more publicly active.
Screw that.  There are enough self-congratulating people in our country.  He didn't want to milk his fame because he knew landing on the moon wasn't something one man should take credit for.
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 28, 2012, 10:48:50 AM
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I always wished that he was more publicly active.
Screw that.  There are enough self-congratulating people in our country.  He didn't want to milk his fame because he knew landing on the moon wasn't something one man should take credit for.

So therefore people shouldn't have wanted more interaction?
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: Dexter Morgan on August 28, 2012, 12:01:15 PM
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I always wished that he was more publicly active.
Screw that.  There are enough self-congratulating people in our country.  He didn't want to milk his fame because he knew landing on the moon wasn't something one man should take credit for.

So therefore people shouldn't have wanted more interaction?
Fame is a cancer that good men don't deserve.  There's a reason people like Jonas Salk and Norman Borlaug aren't household names, and that is because they saw their work as something greater than themselves.
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2012, 12:20:48 PM
Oh fuck, he is still dead?
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 28, 2012, 01:22:51 PM
There's a reason people like Jonas Salk and Norman Borlaug aren't household names

That entirely depends on the household I guess
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: 'andersom' on August 28, 2012, 05:42:02 PM
Oh fuck, he is still dead?

Can't stop laughing.

Guess avoiding bed does that.
Title: Re: Neil Armstrong is dead
Post by: 'andersom' on August 28, 2012, 05:44:43 PM
I have great memories of the night I was woken up, as a four year old, by my parents to see the landing on the moon. The name of Neil Armstrong brings me back to that night, every time I hear it.