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Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight
Ellis D. Tripp writes, "A computer analysis has upheld Neil Armstrong's version of the first words spoken on the lunar surface. The word 'a' was dropped due to a communications glitch, and Armstrong has been accused of flubbing his words since the historic 1969 landing. The corrected statement was 'That's one small step for *A* man, One giant leap for mankind.'"
Well, I am glad that's finally sorted - I've been losing sleep over the issue for years.
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When stories keep changing, it is a sign of a cover up. Yet more proof that the moon landings were a hoax. .. .. ...
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This just in: computer analysis has revealed that Han Solo did, in fact, shoot first!
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But wasn't it all recorded on a NASA Sound Stage? I mean seriously how are we to believe that such prestine equipment setup for the moon landing would drop the 'a'. //HEHEHE Sorry..
Are you sure that it's "*A* Computer Analyst..." and not just "Computer Analyst..."?
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He really meant to plant a goatse.cx flag. :-)
Actually he said:
"Ah shit! I pissed my pants!"
because he was so nervous. Remember, he is an engineer, not a spokesman. But it was covered up.
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The time is ripe for Slashdot editors to try and convince us that duplicate stories were the result of communications echoes.
Sometimes at night I imagine the darkness is filled with horrible things with too many teeth, like Julia Roberts.
First NASA loses Apollo TV master tapes, and now it loses pronouns. At this rate it will lose a planet within a decade such that we'll have only 8.
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I was just a kid when this happened, but I do remember it. It was magic.
But I've never understood this fuss about his pronounciation. It seemed perfectly clear to me what he said at the at the time, and it seems perfectly clear on all the endless replays.
In retrospect, I think he should have said "Wow; holy shit!" instead. Then we wouldn't have this endless handwringing overanalysis.
...I read it somewhere a long time ago and been telling folks this for years - whenever the subject came up.
/., I can triumphantly wave the printout in peoples' faces and scream, "See! This proves it! Its right here in.....uh...uh..."
Now that its been officially reported in
Hmm. Never mind.
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a951117.html
While searching for this in the web site's archives I also found an entry from 1990 discussing the "small step for a man" argument:http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_362.html
My parents tell me that I actually saw the moon landing, but since I was a baby at the time I really can't comment on what I heard him say.Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of.
All I can say is thank goodness the first person on the moon wasn't put there by a commercial entity. I'm sure the first words would have been something like, "That's one small step for a man, but a Taco Bell Gordito(tm) is much bigger!"
Either that, or some other government making a political sound bite that promotes a specific ideology or theology instead of something referencing the accomplishments of mankind in general, would have been equally disturbing.
I'm really proud that the folks at NASA took time to plan what would be said, realizing that it would be a historic moment.
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Yup, the Moon spoke first! No, wait...
"From the Earth to the Moon", command module pilot Mike Collins suggested that if Neil "...had any guts, you would say "What the hell is that?!", then scream and cut your mike." :)
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One giant step for 'the' man, one giant leap for mankind.
God spoke to me.
Armstrong desended the ladder and was about to step on the surface when it was Aldrin that spoke first...
"Wait, Neil! That's no moon..."
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(I know it's not kosher to reply to yourself but I accidentally set this set up with the "No, wait...")
Technically, the landing part 'aint really all that hard...
At least it's not supposed to be. Landings should be nice and gentle.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
About changing history... I think John Titor is involved here...
"one small step for a man..."
it should have been "one small step for a human... one giant leap for humanity."
People laugh at that now, but maybe in a few centuries people will wonder why this mentality persisted for so long.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
In 1972, Armstrong cleared up his first words were actually:
Holy Shit! I'm on the fscking moon!