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Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form
An anonymous reader writes: Proving once again that the government has a form for everything, Buzz Aldrin has unveiled his Apollo 11 documentation on social media over the past few days, including a travel voucher detailing his expenses on his trip to the moon. The papers listed him as having been on a "work trip" from his home in Houston, Texas that had taken him to the moon and then back again with a total expenses claim of just $33.31. The report notes : "Government meals and quarters [were] furnished for all of the above dates."
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Comes to $216.59 in 2015 dollars.
You gotta give them some incentive. It was a really risky trip.
"Houston, the lunar take-off rockets failed to fire, and the fuel is leaking fast. Uh, we'd like about an hour of privacy, please...".
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"the government has a form for everything"
As if there wouldn't otherwise be people screaming about how Buzz Aldrin did not account for how he spent out tax money and is therefore a theif.
As if private corporations do not require expense reports. (My favorite case of this was returning from business trips to South East Asia. I would land in Hong Kong about 10am, have some lunch, leave on a 2pm flight, land at LAX at 10 am, have some lunch, leave on a 2pm flight. My expense report would make people freak out because I listed 2 lunches for the same calendar day. It took a couple of tries before someone told me to enter one as breakfast.)
* Chewing gum
* Accordion
* Shoe-horn
* Pizza cutter
* 75 watt light bulb
* Dried armadillo
* Bicycle peddle
* Original painting of a bulldozer
* Rodent repellant
* 7 bottle caps
* Pillow feathers
* Rubber mallet
* Dog bone
* Green paint, exterior
* Detour sign
* Broken canoe paddle
* Decorative beads
* Baby pacifier
* Petunia seeds
* Empty ice tray
* Batman mask
* 3 human teeth
* Toothpick sculpture of a 3-legged donkey
* Drained snow-globe
As a hard-working tax-payer, I demand answers.
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What the video shows is an assault, which is still a crime. If I punch you in the face, regardless of the reasons, I'll end up in jail. Was the hooligan in the video charged? Nope, because he's 'famous', so the prosecutors came up with an excuse, which they won't grant you. And you lap it up, because you're from the Republic that loves royalty.
You don't know what you are talking about. The law and the police recognize that people can be provoked into throwing a punch. Laws frequently contain clauses about "Fighting Words" and/or stipulations for considering who a "reasonable person" would react in a situation. If you watch the whole video, you will see Aldrin spend minutes trying to get away from Sibrel who continues to chase him, block his path, shove a bible in his face and accuse Aldrin of being a "a coward, and a liar, and a thief." No one would be charged for throwing a punch after all that harassment. Not even you, Mr. AC.
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
Buzz Aldrin was duly charged. The proceedings essentially lasted as long as the video, since it's obvious that he was provoked.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
Depending on where you live the law usually makes room for justifiable assault, even justifiable homicide but the bar for "justifiable" is set usually quite high.
Anecdotal example: My brother-in-law arrived at the scene of an accident near his home, a car full of young guys had run a red light and t-boned his wife's car, fortunately nobody was hurt and the incident was caught on a red light camera. He approached the cop who was talking to the other driver and then without any warning 'king-hit' the other driver square in the face. The young man fell on his arse and started bleeding. Apparently he had been telling the cop how the "stupid old slut" in the other car had caused the accident. The cop's response was brilliant, he said something like - "I heard what he said, but you can't do that in front of me. Again".
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
David Attenborough tells a wonderful story about his early days at the BBC. He had bought two pack horses on location for 30 shillings because he could not find a guide who had enough of their own horses to service the crew. When he was done with the horses he gave them away (to the guide I assume). Back in London he got a call from the BBC accounting office querying the two horses on his expense claim. The accountant was demanding to know where the horses were located because they were now "BBC property" and would appear as such in an audit. Attenborough responded with "Madam, we ate them", which as it turned out were the magic accounting words that turn an asset into a consumable.
The moral of the story is; if you are ever on safari and need to claim some pack mules, either bring them back with you or describe them as "breakfast" on the expense claim..
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Because it's expensive and dangerous for little gain. There's been plenty of science to be done closer to earth, which is why we built the international space station.
Nope, NASA covered that too.
I used to work on the system which keep track of Navy flight records. We had to modify it to handle Navy personnel flying on the Space Shuttles. The system only allowed for 99.9 hour flight legs. Since shuttle flights were longer than 100 hours, we had to modify the system to handle them differently if the aircraft was one of the space shuttles. Talk about getting in your flight hours.
My question is why is he showing the expense form now... did it take that long for them to process it?