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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.
I hope your balls fall off. Show a little respect FFS.
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.
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.
20 minutes into the future
And a great pilot. You will be missed.
One thing worth pointing out was that a great pilot was all Armstrong ever was. That, and a dinosaur.
He could have been supportive of people like Elon Musk who are trying to pick up the ball that the government has dropped.... but he wasn't. Since he had nothing nice to say about SpaceX, he could have STFU and said nothing at all. But he didn't do that either.
Armstrong has been a hero of mine since childhood, but at this late date, there are other heroes. I see no reason to spend even five more minutes thinking about Neil Armstrong and anything he did. When he used one of his rare public appearances to trash SpaceX's work without offering any better alternatives, he voluntarily consigned himself to the past
One good thing that comes from the old man's death? Maybe all of those clouds he's been yelling at can hear him now.