The first man on the moon died at 82 years of age. As someone on Reddit wrote "That's one small death for a man, one giant loss for mankind"
He was 82, a fair age. RIP Neil. I like the quote here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098 ""I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer."
I remember doing a book report on his biography in elementary school, one where you had to make a sock puppet of him too. So sad. He will be missed.
Wow, this was unexpected. RIP. I've always had a lot of respect for the men and women who risk their live so we can further our understanding of the universe, Niel Armstrong was a major part of human history and will always be remembered. As succesful as Niel's mission was, it seems appropriate to remember all the men and women who's lives were lost as part of the space program, especially the civilians who perished on the Challenger shuttle. RIP.
Wow, nice of you to post that bullshit discrediting the man's achievement in the thread about his death.
I never post in the RIP threads but I'll make an exception on this occasion! A great man died today and EVERBODY should be grateful to Neil and people like him for the work they did/do for us all to better understand the world and universe in which we live! A very sincere RIP from me!
Terribly sad that he never got to see a base on the moon. RIP Mr. Armstrong. And Maxou: I know you're just being a troll, but to paraphrase Mitchell & Webb: If you have to build a massive rocket capable of going to the moon in order to fool everyone on the ground... and costs more to feed an entire filmcrew for the duration of a shoot than 3 astronauts for a few days... then wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just send someone to the moon? It's logically nonsensical for everything people use as catalyst to criticise the moon landing footage. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, accepts that a stupid amount of money was poured into NASA during the Apollo missions. So then, why on earth would they make such silly mistakes such as making a mess of lighting, making photos where the 'crosses' on the photos were somehow on the background rather than superimposed over the image, having flags that should be stiff 'wave in the breeze', make photos where it appears no-one is taking a picture, etc. This is the same era that brought you 2001: A Space Odyssey: it's not like film-making and special effects were poor at this point in time. Heck, even my film production crew would not make any of the 'obvious mistakes' people claim this 'multi-million dollar fake' did. They didn't even have to rush it: they had 3 days to shoot all of it before they landed, which is plenty of time to make good quality footage that wouldn't have 'mistakes'. And if it wasn't convincing, then why has no-one associated with the Soviet Space Program ever bothered to dismiss it, when clearly those were the people this footage was REALLY for? Just because you personally cannot be bothered to put in the effort to prove to yourself that things like: * flags in a vacuum CAN appear to move like there's a breeze * you CAN light a scene with only one light source and highly reflective sand, like the kind you find on the moon, to make it appear like someone is lit from both sides * shadows CAN appear the way they do in the photographs doesn't mean it isn't true. And it's not like haven't gone back to the moon because it's impossible: it's just after going to a big dusty rock 6 times (several days at a time over several years) they couldn't find anything else scientific to do, and the public interest in it waned. Post space-race, the funding for NASA plummeted as newer governments cut funding for scientific endeavour when the money got tight, due to lack of public interest. By the time we wanted to go back again for publicly interesting reasons (aka: building a moonbase), the funding got cut before they got to launch as the global recession started to bite. Sadly, it's a case of numbers. Anyway, sorry to go off on one about this. I suggest that this acts as a complete 'busting' of whatever Maxou believes, and that we should get on with mourning the loss of one of the greats.
