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Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died

Posted by timothy on from the he-had-a-very-good-run dept.

dsinc writes "Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon, has died. NBC News broke the news, without giving other details. Neil was recovering from a heart-bypass surgery he had had a couple of weeks ago. Sad news, marking the end of a glorious and more optimistic era... RIP, Neil." Also at Reuters.

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  1. Re:A class act by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really hoped he would win the Tour de France again. ;_;

  2. Re:Allegedly by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I urge you to go tell Buzz Aldrin your opinions.

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  3. The real story: the Earth landings were a hoax by seifried · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows the real Neil Armstrong never left the moon, who do you think started building the first military moon base, and was later put in charge of it? In fact the entire Apollo program was designed to deliver astronauts to the moon, and then fake an Earth landing and use body double to replace them. Did you see how big the rocket needed to get all that crap to the moon was? And how small the lunar module was, no way did it have the power to escape to orbit and enough fuel to return to Earth. The Moon landings were real but the Earth landings are a HOAX!

  4. Re:oblig xkcd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nasa is not sending any more people to the moon until they figure out why everyone who went there is dying.

  5. Re:Who? by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was Neil Diamond. That's why the Beatles wrote Loose Seals in the Sky with Diamond. Learn your archiology.

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  6. Re:I gotta say it.... by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fucking idiot. Don't you have a birth certificate to find or something?

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  7. Bad luck, Buzz. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody had to be second.

  8. Re:A class act by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Neil Armstrong has truly been an inspiration to each and every one of us. What we wouldn't have done to be in his shoes when he made that One Small Step.

    Not a damn thing, personally. I'd have wrecked that lander the second I touched the yoke, assuming I hadn't literally shit my life into my pants on liftoff. Some jobs require specific men, and I'd no more want to have stood in his shoes than I'd want to stare down the defense line in an NFL game or suddenly realize I'm in the water halfway across the English Channel.

    Some men are special, and he was one of those few.