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08/26/2012 07:21:13 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by daisydavid:
Thanks Neil & your team, you made my growing up exciting. |
Ditto! I remember subscribing to a mail order club where I would get photos and stuff from NASA and I had a huge collection of Apollo stuff. I also remember watching the moon landing on something like this...
We've come a long way. ...at least in terms of TV technology. ;-) |
We ended up watching the landing on TV (on a similar one!) at a hospital somewhere near the Grand Canyon. I had been bitten by a spider/ insect and we were in the emergency room getting it mended. I still remember spending that entire few evenings looking up at the Moon and wondering what it was like up there. |
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08/26/2012 07:29:50 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by oldbimmercoupe:
Originally posted by EL-ROI:
It's one small step for Neil, one giant leap for Neil's soul. He was a man who travelled into the heavens believing in the One who created the heavens... Until He comes, rest in peace sir. |
really? you have to proselytize on the death of an astronaut? you people have no shame. can you just ONCE check your jesus crap at the door? thanks. |
You can leave your atheist crap to yourself also! If you don't believe then don't post.
eta: Thanks
Message edited by author 2012-08-26 20:14:51. |
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08/26/2012 07:29:51 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by oldbimmercoupe:
Originally posted by EL-ROI:
It's one small step for Neil, one giant leap for Neil's soul. He was a man who travelled into the heavens believing in the One who created the heavens... Until He comes, rest in peace sir. |
really? you have to proselytize on the death of an astronaut? you people have no shame. can you just ONCE check your jesus crap at the door? thanks. |
Oops, double post.
eta: Neil, may the heavens be with you. RIP
Message edited by author 2012-08-26 19:32:21. |
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08/26/2012 07:37:50 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I remember subscribing to a mail order club where I would get photos and stuff from NASA and I had a huge collection of Apollo stuff. |
I gotta get a hold of my mom and see if she has any of that stuff stored away somewhere. Could be worth some $$. |
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08/26/2012 07:47:53 PM · #30 |
| Now would be a good time for a challenge with a moon theme! |
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08/26/2012 07:52:41 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Now would be a good time for a challenge with a moon theme! |
or a Space theme (Expert would be nice). |
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08/26/2012 07:57:15 PM · #32 |
I agree it would be great to have a Neil Armstrong challenge...
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08/26/2012 08:08:22 PM · #33 |
| Perhaps a meme-stylechallenge, with Neil "landing" on various places...? After all, SHE showed up on HIS landing (see 8th image)! |
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08/26/2012 08:12:42 PM · #34 |
I remember the day like it was yesterday... RIP Neil I will be giving the moon a wink tonight....
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08/26/2012 08:37:48 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by littlemav:
I remember the day like it was yesterday... RIP Neil I will be giving the moon a wink tonight.... |
A thing I've already done, myself :-) I like the idea of the challenge. |
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08/26/2012 09:10:56 PM · #36 |
I would just like to point out to all of you who remember watching Neil land on the moon. And what I want to point out is the fact that you all must be very old! :D
Matt
RIP Neil. |
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08/26/2012 09:12:52 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by MattO:
I would just like to point out to all of you who remember watching Neil land on the moon. And what I want to point out is the fact that you all must be very old! :D
Matt
RIP Neil. |
Yup! |
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08/26/2012 09:23:51 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by MattO:
...you all must be very old! :D |
Old enough to fart dust, as it were. I was ten. I watched it on a big ol' vacuum-tube-based Heathkit black & white TV that my dad built around 1966. I will never forget that day.
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08/26/2012 10:08:34 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by MattO:
...you all must be very old! :D |
Old enough to fart dust, as it were. |
That'd be moondust? I've never forgotten it either, that first step onto the surface. As a youth I'd stare at the stars for HOURS and just absolutely ACHE to get "out there". I was a hard-core SF junkie from the age of 8 or so... |
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08/26/2012 10:17:23 PM · #40 |
I didn't get to see it live. I was on duty, and listened to it on the radio. I remember going out that night and looking up at the moon and thinking, somewhere there were a couple of guys having the time of all our lives...
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08/26/2012 10:30:24 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by MattO:
...you all must be very old! :D |
Old enough to fart dust, as it were. I was ten. I watched it on a big ol' vacuum-tube-based Heathkit black & white TV that my dad built around 1966. I will never forget that day. |
Probably why you had trouble reading Hiker in the other thread and thought it was Hitler....eyesight is one of the first things to go after memory.....
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08/26/2012 10:39:30 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by MattO:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by MattO:
...you all must be very old! :D |
Old enough to fart dust, as it were. I was ten. I watched it on a big ol' vacuum-tube-based Heathkit black & white TV that my dad built around 1966. I will never forget that day. |
Probably why you had trouble reading Hiker in the other thread and thought it was Hitler....eyesight is one of the first things to go after memory..... |
i'm old, but not that old!! (i only remember reading about the landing years later. . . .) |
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08/26/2012 11:18:24 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by MattO:
Probably why you had trouble reading Hiker in the other thread and thought it was Hitler....eyesight is one of the first things to go after memory..... |
My memory's fine, but I did read that as Hilter at first glance.... <"¤">
ETA:(I hadn't read that thread when I posted this.)
Message edited by author 2012-08-26 23:25:51. |
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08/27/2012 05:37:11 AM · #44 |
Originally posted by kawesttex:
Originally posted by oldbimmercoupe:
Originally posted by EL-ROI:
It's one small step for Neil, one giant leap for Neil's soul. He was a man who travelled into the heavens believing in the One who created the heavens... Until He comes, rest in peace sir. |
really? you have to proselytize on the death of an astronaut? you people have no shame. can you just ONCE check your jesus crap at the door? thanks. |
You can leave your atheist crap to yourself also! If you don't believe then don't post.
eta: Thanks |
I guess you really don't understand the basic premise of his post then do you?
Ray |
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08/27/2012 05:46:09 AM · #45 |
The death of anybody who is significantly in the public eye and linked to historical events seems to create a really tangible marker in our shared timeline - it makes us all aware that we are getting older!
No harm in that I suppose - reminds you there are things to do, a world to see andthat there is pretty much an obligation to enjoy yourself. And to do what you can to help others enjoy themselves too! |
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08/27/2012 07:53:17 AM · #46 |
I'm another one in the I remember it as if it were yesterday camp. I watched it at my then fiance's house (2 months before we married). He was home sick, I don't know what I was doing there...
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08/27/2012 11:31:35 AM · #47 |
| Love it!! A moon challenge WAS announced, albeit one without any mention of Neil. Still, a blue moon is pretty cool. Perhaps some clever DPCers will combine the two themes. |
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08/27/2012 01:14:59 PM · #48 |
| That's a great idea, Johanna! |
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08/27/2012 02:07:24 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I also remember watching the moon landing on something like this...
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"Someplace" I have some B&W photos I took of the landing off the TV ... :-(
Earlier this morning there was a radio program about this -- audio available later today ...
KQED Forum: Remembering Neil Armstrong:
Guests:
* Bill Barry, NASA chief historian
* James R. Hansen, author of "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong"
NPR's Talk of the Nation program has a rememberance coming up in the next hour ...
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
We've come a long way. ...at least in terms of TV technology. ;-) |
... if not programming quality ... :-( |
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08/27/2012 02:17:04 PM · #50 |
rip neil |
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