Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died

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.

Comments

Re:Allegedly

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope your balls fall off. Show a little respect FFS.

Re:A true loss

[ShanghaiBill]

One of the greatest men of the last century - thank you for your contributions to mankind.

I am sorry the guy is dead, and I don't mean to be disrepectful, but this is way overstating his importance. Neil wasn't the quarterback, he was the football. If he wasn't available, the next guy in line would have done the job.

Re:Be as nasty as you want to the Baby Boomers...

[bfandreas]

A work of fiction devised by man as an allegory of what it means to be human will point out that adversity begets excellence. While the literal truth is doubtful there is something to be learned from it. Simply dismissing it as a work of fiction with no value whatsoever is not the enlightened thing to do.

Your attitude is what gives us atheists a bad name. While the faith is as laughable as they come denying the value of one of the oldest texts in human history is equally laughable.
Hot damn, we dug up the cylinder of Cyrus the Great which decrees that all the captive peoples of Babylon were free to go and pratice their faiths. So muddled as it may be there even is a grain of historical testimony to be found in those fables. Let's mock the faiths and learn from their writings. We are not fettered by fairy-tale beliefs and pointless dogma.

Sorry, pet peeve.