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cavediver Member (Idle past 3961 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined:
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Neil Armstrong - 1930-2012
Although far too young to appreciate Eagle's landing, by the age of four I was intimately familiar with NASA and the Apollo programme, and Neil Armstrong became my first and foremost hero. Thank you, Neil, for the inspiration - it took me many places.
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vimesey Member (Idle past 390 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined:
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Hear hear.
I was 2 and a half when the first moon landing occurred, and my mum woke me up to watch it. I don't remember doing so, but Neil Armstrong (and Aldrin and Collins) always inspired me. I've often tried to conceptualise the courage they showed, and it is extremely difficult to grasp the half of it.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 930 days) Posts: 3228 Joined:
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My parents woke me up so I could see it Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon right when it was happening.
About 3 years ago, I bought a box lot of space memorabilia at an auction, and there was a politcal flyer that was put out to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of Apollo 11, and I found leafing through it (after I bought it), that one page was autographed by Neal Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
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ringo Member (Idle past 730 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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I remember John Glenn, you young whippersnappers.
I remember Walter Cronkite discussing the thickness of the dust on the moon's surface. I watched the landing on a 12-inch black-and-white TV and heard the immortal words live - though there was some question what the words actually were.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1822 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined:
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Damn I am getting old. All my heros are kickin off.
![]() Neil Armstrong, what balls to be the first person to step out that door!! Salute."You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs |
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3978 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 5.7 |
Alex Karras, All-Pro N.F.L. Lineman Who Also Starred as an Actor, Dies at 77
Wiki page
A couple of nights ago I was watching Steven Wright videos on youtube. That led to looking up the Wiki article on him, then to George Carlin and black humor. The black humor wiki led to Blazing Saddles which led to the Alex Karras article. There I found out that it had just been announced that he had kidney failure and had been given only a few days to live. I found this to be a strange way to have discovered the news. Moose Edited by Minnemooseus, : Tweek.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1572 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Coca-Cola Winona MN | celebrating the last 6 1/2 ounce run
Edited by subbie, : TyopRidicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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anglagard Member (Idle past 1154 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined:
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Russell Means, the American Indian activist died earlier today of esophageal cancer.
I spent two days with him back in 1989 when he was our keynote speaker at the State Libertarian Convention in New Mexico. As the county chair, I somehow wound up assigned to be his welcoming committee and sort-of chauffeur. To call him interesting or intelligent would be an understatement. Of all Hollywood actors, of which he later became, glad I met him instead of any other, for what I think should be obvious reasons. Edited by anglagard, : add 'I met' for clarity Edited by anglagard, : more clarityRead not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 193 days) Posts: 4001 From: Adirondackia Joined:
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In the early 70s I drove a daily circuit from Indianapolis to county court houses throughout Indiana, doing real estate abstracting and tax roll checks for mortgage companies.
Nearly every county court house/capitol was that county's most imposing structure--columns, rotunda, colorful ceramic murals mounted on the brilliant Indiana limestone--and every court house had the glossy red, round-topped Coke machine that served 6.5 oz Cokes for a nickel. You'd pull out a Coke and the entire vertical stack of bottles would move to fill the space. Those little bottles were sturdy--they usually didn't break even when you dropped them. I'd hit a half dozen counties in any given day, and that nickel Coke machine was always a welcome sight. So long ago...it seems that everything good from that time is gone, and all the bad has flourished: the laid-back bigotry, rather than fading, has been replaced with the passionately intense conviction that the bigotry is not only justified, but patriotic. I miss my naive belief that bigotry and hatred were on the run. I wish I had some of those Cokes."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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jar Member (Idle past 157 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I grew up in a fairly large family and a favorite tradition when we were allowed to each buy a Coke was to see whose bottle came from the furthest away. When we went out to the diner we always took a US map with us where each bottle was mapped and marked with the kid's initial.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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CosmicChimp Member (Idle past 135 days) Posts: 311 From: Muenchen Bayern Deutschland Joined: |
You beat me to it. That is a very interesting story Anglagard. We need more like him. Thanks for posting.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1723 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1306 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
I don't remember why I happened to read about Russell Means, but that's when I first learned about AIM, their occupation of Alcatraz, and civil disobedience. He truly was a great man.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2641 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 5.9 |
Free Leonard Peltier!!!
Free Leonard Peltier!!! Free Leonard Peltier!!! Leonard Peltier - Wikipedia I read a great book, In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse, by Peter Matthiessen.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2620 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
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