Did you know this section has a character limit?
I highly doubt Armstrong would like people going on suicide trips from a terminal named after him. Venus is the Australia of the solar system.
They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!
State of Mind
It can sustain a population of 22.5 million?
"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim
Did you know this section has a character limit?
No, Everything Is Trying to Kill You.
They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!
cannot into space
So... The best way to colonize venus is to send all our criminals there?
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Street Writing Man
This is what I said on Facebook after learning that Mr. Armstrong had passed...
It's interesting to me, the outpouring of sentiment that has resulted. "The man on the moon is dead" people say. Everyone wants to talk about Neil Armstrong the moon-walker, how he was the first to do...well, unless you've been living under a particularly d ense rock you already know.
What really catches me is how little we actually know about this adventurous pioneer. Yes, most people alive in the year 1969 remember where they were when they heard that a 38 year old American (in the words of Walter Cronkite) was treading on a celestial body that they'd gazed at, wondered about, made love underneath, et cetera.
I'm regrettably too young to have been alive when this happened, but I've seen the footage; a balloon-suited shape descends the ladder from Apollo 11...there's some scratchy chatter, and then he reaches the bottom. "That's one small step for man," he says from a million miles distant, "one giant leap...for mankind".
Millions of people were glued to their television screens when this cathartic moment - where politics, science and the human urge to explore intersected- played out.
I was ten years from being conceived when this event occurred, yet watching the clip still fills me with this insane kind of joy. A man, no different from me, walking on something I've gazed up at since I was old enough to raise my head. It's a tribute to what we humans can accomplish when we set our minds to something.
And yet...What do we know, really, about the man who actually did this great thing?
The answer is not much. Even in an age where information is unleashed at the tap of a key most American brows would furrow in worry if someone asked them to name a non-moon-related aspect to Armstrong's life. We know his birth, we know his death, we know that he walked on the moon, and that's pretty much it. I'm sure you the reader can resort to Google for more, but you know in your heart of hearts that such was all you really knew...and his birth is probably only in your mind because he just died and the newspapers are printing his lifespan.
Simply put, Neil Armstrong became a symbol.
I'm sure NASA designed it this way. I'm certain they knew exactly what they had to do to get this mission to the moon off the ground (take that either way) and planned accordingly. All the astronauts were family-oriented military men...people accustomed through their prior experience to working as a team, to being a cog in the wheel, part of a unit, whatever.
Even after their accomplishments, these men shunned the limelight...because that is what they were trained to do. We know their names (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard, Jim Lovell, Deke Slayton) and we know their accomplishments (flying above the atmosphere, walking on the moon, etc.) but we don't know the men....and that's probably all to the good, because flaws are not appropriate in a symbol.
Symbols are one-dimensional for a reason.
Neil Armstrong was one of these men. He, like all of his brethren, was not designed to be a hero; he was a lamb placed on the altar of human achievement. He knew this and embraced it, which is why he has and will always have my respect.
Vote is No
What I put on my tumblr: http://unemployedacademic.tumblr.com/post/30300475477/neil-armstrong
Neil Armstrong
I write this altogether too late at night. I may lapse into incoherence or flights of fancy and pointless purple prose. Be forewarned and prepared.
Unfortunately Neil Armstrong died. It’s hard to feel too bad for the man, he lived a long and full life. How many others can claim to have stepped on another planet (I know not really a planet but astronomical body is a clunky phrase) he could have said he was the first to go the furthest humanity has ever gone.
The world is a darker smaller place with his passing. Granted, we didn’t mourn the passing of Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин (Yuri Gagarin to you plebes who can't Romanize Cyrillic) the first man to breach the void and enter space. But Yuri died in 1968 during the height of the Cold War when missions into space were common and we were closing in on the moon.
With how our will to journey and explore has dissipated Armstrong’s passing takes a tragic tinge to it. We may reach a point where there will be no human alive who’s ever stepped foot on a body besides Earth. We will as a species have lost something.
I know nothing of Neil Armstrong as a person. I assume he was a good guy but I don’t know or care. Those memories are for his family. For us, the people who only know him through TV or history books he was more, he was a symbol.
And now lets take a moment to play a video so over used it’s almost become trite yet remains beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4
You have to love that one of the defining moments of human history is someone flubbing a line.
Also:
If you don’t believe in the moon landing, some other day I will debate how stupid you are. Today go away.
Obligatory self promotion: http://unemployedacademic.tumblr.com/
Indiana Solo
I second the "make venus a penal colony so it turns into Australia II"
so long as us Italians get to turn Mars into a plant with a HUGE ocean near everything. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
You know. I know I'll sound like a jackass, and I don't mean to speak ill of the dead...
But the good side of Mr. Armstrong being no longer with us is that maybe people will just shut up about the "staged moon landing", for the same reason people stopped making jokes about Michael Jackson right after he died.
Wandering Jew
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
I just read a Youtube comment expressing glee at that "filthy liar's" death.
You don't "get" conspiracy theorists do you? When a conspiracy theory becomes well known enough, it either get less popular or get proven correct. Theynever truly go away.
edited 28th Aug '12 5:35:29 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Staged moon landing was funny when I was 12. After that I just thought that it was inane.
Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong. It is a pity that your funeral couldn't have been done on moon.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Not really, I prefer talking to therapists without an agenda.
Wandering Jew
Fucking spell-check.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
@Drunk, MEPT: God, you're making me guilty I don't feel like writing anything about Neil Armstrong.
◥▶◀◤
I've been trying to find something to say for days and failing to find the right words or phrases. So because of this I'm just going to share this video instead.
Wandering Jew
Farewell to an American pioneer: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, buried at sea.
"Flight 1736 to Venus will depart from Neil Armstrong Terminal in 30 minutes, please prepare for boarding. "
edited 27th Aug '12 3:09:56 PM by Catfish42
A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line