DailyDirt: One Small Step For A Man...
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Neil Armstrong's recent passing has reminded lots of folks about the first manned mission to the moon. The whole idea that "we could put a man on the moon" seemed incredible in the 1960's, and the feat is still remarkably difficult -- even if kids today can't fully appreciate the accomplishment. Maybe someday, we'll go back to the moon (and this XKCD will have to be adjusted), but in the meantime, here are just a few links about that historic first moonwalk.- Neil Armstrong's first words as he stepped on the moon were slightly misheard by everyone on Earth, and audio analysis of the recordings suggests that Armstrong didn't just mis-speak. "That's one small step for *A* man, one giant leap for mankind." [url]
- In 2006, NASA realized that it had lost its original Apollo 11 moon landing videos, but fortunately, archived footage of the moonwalk was found in Australia in 2010. The tapes were restored and digitized -- and hopefully we won't lose them again when nobody remembers what MP4 is. [url]
- President Nixon was prepared for an Apollo 11 disaster with a speech that he thankfully never read to the American public. The "moon disaster" speech is a creepy reminder that space exploration is an inherently risky venture... [url] [page2]
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Filed Under: apollo 11, exploration, moon, moonwalk, neil armstrong, nixon, space
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One Small Step For Man Makes No Sense
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", makes no sense at all, where as
"One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind", actually does make sense.
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Because no. (Unless you're Lewis Carrol.)
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Thank heavens for copying.
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I might go take the wife this weekend to his burial site in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
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There seems to be one thing conspiracy theorists forget about. Retro Retroreflectors. The US didn't have the technology to deploy them without human hands in 1969. They helped find the exact distance to the moon when NASA bounced a laser off of them.
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Re: Man it didn't take long for this kind of taint to appear.
A good exercise in critical thinking for a budding science class, I would say.
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"One giant step fof Manny Kind"
Manny was a friend of his whose wife always refused to give Manny a blow-job, saying to him - "They'll have to land a man on the moon before I'll do that!"
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Armstrong Himself Wasn�t Quite Sure He�d Said It Right
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1
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Manned missions are incredibly risky and expensive... and productivity-wise, it's hard to beat robot missions for doing science. We could easily send a robot to the moon to accomplish any number of scientific tasks, so why send a human? It's been done before, and there isn't that much more to learn about it -- UNLESS we're going to try to start colonizing the moon.....
So plans to start living on the moon semi-permanently might take some (more) decades to pull off....
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