The photo you're thinking of isn't the first step on the moon. It wasn't even Armstrong's boot that did it. That photo was part of an experiment that Aldrin carried out. He first photographed the area, stepped in it, then photographed his footprint to document the properties of the lunar soil.
The first footprint was immediately damaged/erased when Armstrong finished getting off the ladder. Not to mention when Aldrin climbed-down next.
Then, when the ascent stage launched, you can definitely see dust having been displaced. The force even knocked-down the flag they placed (I can't find the video, I'm at work, but it's out there). On future missions, they decided to place the flag further from the lander due to this.
I was helping a roommate get his laptop back up and running after he pounded it with his fist (made a neat screaching sound when the HDD tried to spin up), and he had an Ubuntu live CD that he wanted to try (Gutsy, I think it was). I told him the damage was definitely physical and it would cost him if he wanted it back up and running, but he didn't have the money.
After that he just forgot about it. Perhaps a year ago I stumbled across the laptop again (he was long gone at this point) and decided to put a new drive in and get it working. I used Hardy Heron (8.04) and instantly started having fun. Took some work getting the integrated WiFi working (thanks, Wicd!), but it ran like a dream. I then installed Xubuntu on my girlfriend's old, ailing machine, and repeated the process on my other roommate's old Dell laptop (incidentally, she hated it).
I've since moved on to try other distros. My girlfriend has completely settled into that laptop, and she just re-installed it with Jaunty this past weekend (upgrade mirrors were SLOW, so she hit the torrent and burned a CD).
I've derived more fun from installing and configuring Linux distros in recent months than I have from playing games. I'm currently triple-booting my desktop between Vista Home Premium 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and Debian (lenny) amd64. I spend 90% of my time on the computer in Debian.
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The photo you're thinking of isn't the first step on the moon. It wasn't even Armstrong's boot that did it. That photo was part of an experiment that Aldrin carried out. He first photographed the area, stepped in it, then photographed his footprint to document the properties of the lunar soil. The first footprint was immediately damaged/erased when Armstrong finished getting off the ladder. Not to mention when Aldrin climbed-down next. Then, when the ascent stage launched, you can definitely see dust having been displaced. The force even knocked-down the flag they placed (I can't find the video, I'm at work, but it's out there). On future missions, they decided to place the flag further from the lander due to this.
I was helping a roommate get his laptop back up and running after he pounded it with his fist (made a neat screaching sound when the HDD tried to spin up), and he had an Ubuntu live CD that he wanted to try (Gutsy, I think it was). I told him the damage was definitely physical and it would cost him if he wanted it back up and running, but he didn't have the money.
After that he just forgot about it. Perhaps a year ago I stumbled across the laptop again (he was long gone at this point) and decided to put a new drive in and get it working. I used Hardy Heron (8.04) and instantly started having fun. Took some work getting the integrated WiFi working (thanks, Wicd!), but it ran like a dream. I then installed Xubuntu on my girlfriend's old, ailing machine, and repeated the process on my other roommate's old Dell laptop (incidentally, she hated it).
I've since moved on to try other distros. My girlfriend has completely settled into that laptop, and she just re-installed it with Jaunty this past weekend (upgrade mirrors were SLOW, so she hit the torrent and burned a CD).
I've derived more fun from installing and configuring Linux distros in recent months than I have from playing games. I'm currently triple-booting my desktop between Vista Home Premium 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and Debian (lenny) amd64. I spend 90% of my time on the computer in Debian.