Neil Armstrong Gives Rare Interview

pcritter writes "In a rare coup for accountants' association CPA Australia, CEO Alex Malley interviews Neil Armstrong, whose dad worked as an Auditor, bringing him back four decades to the pinnacle of the space race. Neil reveals, 'I thought we had a 90 per cent chance of getting back safely to Earth on that flight but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt.' The four-part video series is now posted on CPA Australia's website."

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It's an urban legend

[warrax_666]

It's an urban legend.

Re:What's the problem with building self-sustainin

[CRCulver]

There's a whole solar system full of resources to utilise and SPACE to EXPAND since we hate the idea of state regulated birth control>

Even with multiple space elevators, you can't move more people off the planet than are being born on it at any given moment. Expansion into space is not a realistic solution for overpopulation.

You also present a false dichotomy between space colonization and extinction somewhere in the short term. Instead of expanding into space, a quite possible future for sentient races is to move into a virtual reality. Merged with machines and living underground, the human race could withstand catastrophic asteroid strikes and last until the sun expands to a red giant. Voluntary extinction may even be a possibility at some point after the human races has transcended biology. Your fanatical dreams of immortality and exploration of the universe are not the way it has to be.