Neil Armstrong Dead

[Cyberman]

The Apollo XI landing is one of those things which makes people of appropriate vintage remember where they were and what they were doing when it happened. It's like the JFK assassination in that regard; I like to tell people that I was standing on a grassy knoll holding a rifle at the time.

[Norfolk And Chance]

All men die. Few get to walk on the moon, though.

Yeah but all good christians get to do that and more after they've thrown a seven.

Was it godschild that suggested that maybe he'd get to run his own galaxy in the afterlife if he was a good boy in this one?

Sad day though, very sad. Can't quite believe he's gone

[KichigaiNeko]

Neil Armstrong? After reading just what this man accomplished in his life I am so happy he was here and made it to the moon. 'Lucky bastard' .....all that hard work he put in and being in the right place to use it all.... he had a great 'innings'

82 is a great age to die, especially after having lived so well. He was the first one on a totally different "world" no one can take that away from him.

My sympathies to his family and loved ones..I'm sure they will miss him greatly.

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Thought you all might enjoy this............

http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/

The Universe
Neil Armstrong gave what was to be his final interview May 2012 to the Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia. In the interview he talks about Apollo 11’s historic lunar landing, his thoughts on leadership and taking risks to innovate for the future. The link is to the videos of the interviews, where he is interviewed for almost an hour.

Of his time on the moon's surface, he said: "It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do. We weren't there to meditate. We were there to get things done. So we got on with it."

Why accountants? Neil Armstrong's father Stephen worked as an auditor for the Ohio state government.

-TEL

[zebo-the-fat]

I never walked on the moon, never will... but I met a man who stood on the foot of the man who walked on the moon! This guy walked out of a hotel room in the US and stood on the foot of a guy walking past... Mr N. Armstrong!

[Cyberman]

Not a quote from Armstrong, but while in quarantine after splashdown the astronauts were watching a video of the press coverage of the Moon landing. Buzz Aldrin turned both to his commander and CM Pilot Michael Collins and said "Hey, we missed the whole thing!"

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

For some reason, I just thought of Buzz Aldrin smacking some guy who said the moon landing was faked. Loved it.


I think the video below puts those hoaxer freaks in proper context.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7KgdehBBsw

[Cyberman]

Oh god, Bart Sibrel. The taxi driver with the bible fetish. As your video shows, his modus operandi (such as it is) is to pester the astronauts for as long as he can get away with, shoving the bible at them and calling them liars to their faces. Then he edits out all but their reactions for his shitty videos. What the shot of Aldrin smacking the idiot doesn't make clear is that Sibrel had been pestering Aldrin for the better part of the entire afternoon while the poor man was just trying to enjoy the day with his granddaughter (I think). Aldrin had asked, and then told, him repeatedly to please leave them alone, all the while being called a liar who is getting paid a lot of money under false pretenses. It was also not the first time Sibrel had behaved like that to him. Tell me of anyone who wouldn't react in a similar way under those circumstances.

Sibrel is infamously well known to all the astronauts. He inveigled his way into (I believe) Ed Mitchell's house under the pretense of conduscting a legitimate interview; after he started playing his usual games, Mitchell literally and presumably very sharply kicked his arse out the door, saying "Get the fuck out of my house!"

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Some examples of Sibrel's "Lunarcy" (with rebuttals at http://www.clavius.org/bibsibrel.html):

* "Tricky Dick" Richard Nixon was president at the time. He was the king of cover-up, secret tapes, and scandal. Think about all of his potential antics that were not discovered.

* A successful manned mission to the moon offered a wonderful, pride-boosting distraction for the near revolt of the citizens of America over 50,000 deaths in the Vietnam War.

* The Soviets had a five-to-one superiority to the U.S. in manned hours in space. They were the first in achieving the following seven important milestones:
1. First manmade satellite in orbit.
2. First man in space.
3. First man to orbit the earth.
4. First woman in space.
5. The first crew of three astronauts onboard one spacecraft.
6. The first spacewalk.
7. The first of two orbiting spacecraft rendezvousing.
This put America at a perceived military disadvantage in missile technology during the very height of the Cold War.

* Neil Armstrong, the first man to supposedly walk on the moon, refuses to give interviews to anyone on the subject. "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies." Collins also refuses to be interviewed. Aldrin, who granted an interview, threatened to sue us if we showed it to anyone.

* Newly retouched photographs correct errors from previously released version. Why would they be updating thirty-year-old pictures if they really went to the moon?

* Rediscovered lost footage shows the American flag blowing in the wind. The wind was probably caused by intense air conditioning used to cool the astronauts in their lightened, uncirculated space suits. The cooling systems in the backpacks would have been removed to lighten the load not designed for earth's six times heavier gravity, otherwise they might have fallen over.

* Enlarged photographs underneath the lunar lander's 10,000 pound thrust engine showing the soil completely undisturbed. During ground tests there was grave concern for the vehicle falling into the hole the engine created as it descended. An oversight that they would have to keep for all subsequent moon missions. They attributed it to the effect of no atmosphere (except for the flag blowing in the wind!)

* Rare, uncirculated photographs, allegedly from the moon's surface, show scenes supposedly lit solely by sunlight. Yet they contain shadows that do not run parallel with each other, indicating supplemental artificial light. Sunlight would cast shadows that would never intersect.

* The moon is 250,000 miles away. The space shuttle has never gone more than 400 miles from the Earth. Except for Apollo astronauts, no humans even claim to have gone beyond low-earth orbit. When the space shuttle astronauts did get to an altitude of 400 miles, the radiation of the Van Allen belts forced them to a lower altitude. The Van Allen radiation belts exist because the Earth's magnetic field traps the solar wind.

* The top portion of the lunar module which landed on the moon supposedly popped up off the moon with two astronauts aboard, entered lunar orbit 60 miles up, and docked with the command module in lunar orbit. To look at its design and think such could have actually occurred is absolutely ludicrous. The fuel tanks were nowhere near one-sixth the size of those on the space shuttle as one would expect to achieve lunar orbit.

* The surface of the moon is a vacuum. The landing module would have been heated to 250 degrees F on the light side where they landed. There is no way they could have rejected the heat for as long as 72 hours as they claim on some Apollo missions. How long do you think you could keep your car cool on a hot day running off battery power?

* Take a look at the lunar module which supposedly flew from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. It is a cylindrical shape with a high center of gravity and one big thrust engine at the bottom. Upon just looking at this design, to think it would not immediately pinwheel and and crash, as the lunar module trainer did three weeks prior on earth, is absurd.

* After the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin gave a press conference. When asked whether they remembered seeing any stars from the surface of the moon, Collins, who was supposedly in the command module the whole time, gave a wrong answer to a question he should not have been answering. The relevant portion of the clip is in my documentary; viewing it with an understanding of the circumstances makes it clear they were were lying about having traveled to the moon. I'm saying Collins blew it right then and there and I honestly cannot understand why there is even further discussion on the whole topic. Furthermore, if you obtain a written transcript of the press conference you'll see that the comment is erroneously attributed to Aldrin. Honest mistake or cover-up?

* In 1967 three astronauts were burned alive on the launch pad. The upshot of the congressional inquiry was that the entire Apollo program was in shambles and it was a miracle no one was killed sooner. All of the problems were supposedly fixed by 1969, just two years later. How could they have made such a large improvement in "quality control" in such a short period of time?"

* All Apollo missions stayed in low earth orbit for the duration of the trip. WE uncovered some mislabelled., unedited, behind the scenes footage from NASA that shows the crew of Apollo 11 staging a shot of being half-way to the moon. This clip, shown in our documentary, proves they did not leave low-earth orbit. You won't see this anywhere else!

[Cyberman]

I'd like to share this picture with you all. This is my favourite photograph taken on the Lunar surface, by Buzz Aldrin:

Ok, you're now asking yourselves, why that photo? What's so special about it?

Well, it's my favourite because of what happened next:

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That's right. Aldrin took the first picture of the virgin surface, then stepped forward to make that eternally-famous bootprint which he of course then stepped back again to photograph.

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The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, from which these pictures were taken, contains every historical document and article about all seven Apollo Lunar missions (including the ill-fated Apollo XIII); high-resolution scans of photographs, mission reports, flight plans, video footage, transcripts of radio communications - you name it, they've got it.

In my opinion, the ultimate tribute not only to Neil Armstrong and his crew, but to the entire Apollo endeavour.