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We Landed on the Moon!
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[B][url]http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]
Thank you... :D
When you start thinking about the kind of persons who became astronauts, US Air-Force test pilots (for the most part, IIRC), who faced a whole list of life and death situations. Armstrong then being the first one to set foot on an alien world and all that comes to his mind at that moment is some deep sentence that would have sprung off the mind of a monk or a poet. Puh-lease!
Besides the landing was only the halfway of the mission, a mission from which they might not have come back alive. They put their asses on the line for a dead world!! And achievement, yes, but when you think about all the hard work, training and practice that went into this mission, it's not surprizing that they were sick of it and glad to be done with it.
As I've said before, NASA =//= Star Trek. There's no Prime Directive, there's not technobabble solution for a problem, there's only prespiration due to hard work, heat or fear, or all of the above. I suppose it's like working on a rollercoaster, every day, for months on end. Sounds like fun....
Wikipedia tells us, that he probably said
"I don't see any god up here."
You may enter random *beep*'s between words to make it sound funny.
[B]When you start thinking about the kind of persons who became astronauts, US Air-Force test pilots (for the most part, IIRC), who faced a whole list of life and death situations. Armstrong then being the first one to set foot on an alien world and all that comes to his mind at that moment is some deep sentence that would have sprung off the mind of a monk or a poet. Puh-lease![/b][/quote]
It's not hard at all to believe that he thought of what he was going to say in advance and said it at the appropriate time.
[quote][b]Besides the landing was only the halfway of the mission, a mission from which they might not have come back alive. They put their asses on the line for a dead world!![/b][/quote]
Quite willingly.
[quote][b]And achievement, yes, but when you think about all the hard work, training and practice that went into this mission, it's not surprizing that they were sick of it and glad to be done with it.[/b][/quote]
They were sick of it and glad to be done with it? Where did you hear this?
[quote][b]As I've said before, NASA =//= Star Trek. There's no Prime Directive, there's not technobabble solution for a problem, there's only prespiration due to hard work, heat or fear, or all of the above. I suppose it's like working on a rollercoaster, every day, for months on end. Sounds like fun.... [/B][/QUOTE]
And, in the Apollo days, a sense of achievement that would have overcome all that for most of the people involved. I know it certainly would have for me.
You'd have to be a saint to keep your composure at a moment like this.
I agree, the times were different, but there are things that don't change and that's "kneejerk" reactions to extraordinary circumstances.
It always amazes me that people buy into all that lore and romance....
I guess for some people an airline pilot is a flying hero... for others it's just a glorified airbus driver.
I suppose it's a matter of point of view.
[B]I am quite sure it was planned, unless you want to go with consperacy theory logic and say that it was pre recorded. Also, being in the military, they would have the diciplin to say what they wanted to say when they needed to. [/B][/QUOTE]
In theory anything is possible, but I'd bet there are many more cockpit voice recorders retreived from crash sites that contain expletives than there are with useful and factual information left by trained professionals that pilots are, for the NTSB experts to examine.
:alien: :D The truth is out there....
[B]I am quite sure it was planned, unless you want to go with consperacy theory logic and say that it was pre recorded. Also, being in the military, they would have the diciplin to say what they wanted to say when they needed to. [/B][/QUOTE]
My grandfather, a man never given to profanity was said to have not sworn even once during the whole Gothic Line campaign, not even after taking the near fatal wound that sent him home from WWII.
Once upon a time, the segments of society that laced their speech with profanity was much smaller and often looked down upon as being illterate and unintelligent.