OT - Neil Armstrong has died

[Comeds]

Bess is afraid to leave her house!

 

[juliansteed]

Rough week for Armstrongs

It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't realize they were 2 different people. I've seen a lot tweets being posted about "this guy" has had a rough week.

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

Rough week for Armstrongs

I heard Billy Jo had a hangnail.
These things happen in 3's.

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

It never ceases to amaze me how many people are complete fucking morons.

FIFY

 

[dash]

I hear Colby has a nasal infection and with the size of his honker, it has to be serious...

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

With a name like Colby, I can't believe it's not cheese.

 

[beantownmaniac]

With a name like Colby, I can't believe it's not cheese.

 

[pixburgher66]

Someone said this and I thought it was pretty poignant.

He's one of the few men to leave this Earth having previously left this Earth.

 

[BF4L]

Someone said this and I thought it was pretty poignant.

He's one of the few men to leave this Earth having previously left this Earth.

ya Pix that is a awesome quote.

 

[dare2be]

Someone said this and I thought it was pretty poignant.

He's one of the few men to leave this Earth having previously left this Earth.

And if they send his ashes into space, that would be a triplicate.

 

[DevilishWon]

The whole world stopped to watch when he took that step. Hard for people today to realize

 

[Darkstone42]

For those folks (I know there aren't many here, if any) who don't believe the lunar landing actually happened, the Apollo 11 crew actually left instrumentation on the moon that we still use today.

Lunar Laser Ranging experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The reflector arrays left by the Apollo 11 (and subsequently 14 and 15) crews allow scientists to track the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

 

[Darkstone42]

A post from Facebook:

Just finished reading the cover article about Neil Armstrong from yesterday's Post Gazette... everyone should check out this video and think about how cool it was that so many people invested so much in something that didn't bring harm to anyone.

In 1969, NASA's budget was $4.251 billion ($21.376 billion normalized for inflation in 2007 USD). That comes out to 2.31% of the federal budget. NASA's budget last year was $18.448 billion ($17.005 billion in 2007 USD), which is 0.48% of the federal budget. It would take the last 5 combined budget years lumped into one to match the percentage from the Apollo days.

Compare those 5 years with the direct cost of the Iraq War to the federal government ($845 billion as reported by the US Treasury Dept.). That averages out to about $169 billion per year during that time. For comparison's sake that is a few percentage points short of exactly 10x the budget. Spent on tearing down and then rebuilding a country that essentially just had an outspoken dictator and an unfortunate geographical location.

The amazing thing is that we were able to land an unmanned craft on Mars, which on average is about 1,000x farther away from the Earth than the Moon, using this meager percentage. Imagine if we bumped that back up to a full 1% or god-forbid, 2%, what we might be able to accomplish.

And here's a video of the landing.

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[juliansteed]

The whole world stopped to watch when he took that step. Hard for people today to realize

It was a bit before my time. I don't think I've lived through such a moment. It absolutely boggles my mind that in the same lifetime of some people, mankind went from horse and buggy as the main method of transportation to sending people to the moon.

 

[DevilishWon]

It was a bit before my time. I don't think I've lived through such a moment. It absolutely boggles my mind that in the same lifetime of some people, mankind went from horse and buggy as the main method of transportation to sending people to the moon.

It's true. People born in the late 1800's or early 1900's literally witnessed this. Truely amazing when you think of it.

 

[mattola]

saw this on reddit.