R.I.P. - Neil Armstrong

[Peter Dow]

Neil Armstrong, the coolest guy, ever!

Let's be honest, though. Armstrong was in the right place at the right time. What he did could have been accomplished by anyone in his position; even some of us on this board could undergo a similar training regiment and assume the mantle of Apollo 11 astronaut.

Boast for yourself there buddy. If it is honestly you are looking for, I know my limits.

I lose my cool when my PC doesn't work as it ought to. Armstrong when speaking to control on the launch pad of Apollo 11 sounded as cool as you or I would sound when taking out a library book. Coolest guy, ever.

When I was the age Armstrong was when he landed on the moon I could not get a job or nor sustain my studies at university because of my lack of respect for the authority of employers / university managers. Armstrong was a team player and if he was the best player on the team he didn't boast about it.

In my youth I used to ride a motorcycle but I have never been on a fairground ride that involves large vertical motion, nor gone hang-gliding, parachuting, bungee-jumping, skiing, climbing nor indeed anything that involves a significant degree of additional person risk. Armstrong knew the risks but took them anyway.

After all, what human being would pass up the opportunity to walk on the moon?

I'll pass any opportunity to be launched by a rocket. I've got my feet on the ground of this good planet Earth and I like it that way!

If anything, honor the scientists who built the Apollo rockets. Especially a guy like Van Braun, who single-handedly built the US rocket program. That's a rare skill; that's true talent. Same goes for scientists like Newton, Pasteur, and Tesla. Rare minds who dramatically change the direction of history. If we honored them a little more and those who take advantage of their work a little less do you think we'd go a long way towards advancing the species.

Armstrong did honour all the others who comprised the NASA team. He was no strutting peacock saying "look at me, see what I did!"

Yes those were brilliant original engineers and scientists and I honour most of them eagerly but not so much with Wernher von Braun who built his first big rockets for the Nazi military. I prefer a scientist like Einstein who didn't fight for the wrong side. Armstrong fought the hermit Stalinst kingdom of North Korea, a place that's as wrong today as the South Korea he defended is right.

Neil Armstrong, the coolest guy, ever.

He came in peace for all mankind, and that means you too buddy. Honour him!

 

[Cowlesy]

An amazing feat of human accomplishment. RIP, Mr. Armstrong.

 

[Acala]

RIP

That's not Neil Armstrong.

 

[James Madison]

He came in peace for all mankind, and that means you too buddy. Honour him!

Considering I wouldn't be born for two decades that doesn't apply.

Going to space would be the coolest thing a human being could do. Setting foot on the moon is just gravy. If it cost me my life I wouldn't shed any tears (probably because I'd be dead).

 

[Peter Dow]

Considering I wouldn't be born for two decades that doesn't apply.

"Mankind" means all in the human species, past, present and future and anything you do, whether land on the moon or anything "for Mankind" matters most to the present and future humans who can benefit from whatever you are doing for us all. So "for all Mankind" does mean for you and it does mean for those who won't be born until another two decades from now.

Going to space would be the coolest thing a human being could do. Setting foot on the moon is just gravy. If it cost me my life I wouldn't shed any tears (probably because I'd be dead).

Oh no James, don't say that. Life is for living. It's only cool if and when you make it back to Earth in one piece like Neil Armstrong did. I find the idea of one-way suicide missions into space to be repulsive and most definitely uncool.

 

[Danke]

http://wechoosethemoon.org

 

[Pericles]

Of all the unconstitutional stuff the government does, this bothered me the least.

 

[Acala]

Of all the unconstitutional stuff the government does, this bothered me the least.

Me too. It's okay to think space exploration is cool and to admire people with brass cojones and mad skills and still be opposed to the way it was funded.

 

[Peter Dow]

The Space Ship S.S. Condoleezza Rice

^I wonder if that will realistically ever happen. You can talk about Branson's space tourism yet to happen or Space ship one.

I'd rather talk about the Space Ship S.S. Condoleezza Rice.