Thursday, September 14, 2023

If you're under 30, can you name these guys?


 

27 comments:

  1. Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins. I met Collins and shook his hand in a parade when I was 11 years old.

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    1. I miss all of the NASA stuff. Space station should be on 24/7 on regular TV.
      What we did and what Americans do is amazing. Still want my flying car.

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  2. Mike Collins - Going around to the far side of the moon in orbit by himself. As alone as any human being has ever been. I was 10 when they landed on the moon and I kept telling everyone that they gave the really tough job to a Mike! My hero.

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  3. If you're UNDER 30? Highly doubtful unless you're a young nerd. It's been over 50 years and I believed we landed on the moon up until maybe 10 years ago. Keen-eyed observers continue the great debunk. The most recent was the camera tilting upwards as the lunar landing module rose to connect with the orbiting Apollo. It's a tragedy they left either Aldrin or Armstrong behind so he could capture that breathtaking moment.

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    1. Ha ha ha. Good one!

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    2. You don't think people who could successfully land on the moon couldn't rig a camera to pan up?

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    3. That was not Apollo 11, which is the crew pictured. The camera tilt was performed as the Apollo 17 (Cernan, Schmitt, and Evans) ascent module lifted off. Ed Fendel operated the Lunar Rover camera from his console at Houston, and had to time his inputs to account for the ~1.5 second delay in transmission. He got it nearly perfect. We went to the moon.

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    4. NASA... which stands for Never A Straight Answer... has admitted we can't return to the moon because the technology has been lost. You see it was in those cardboard boxes in the shed out back and the janitor tossed it all out.

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    5. It was actually easier to GO to the moon than to fake it and be in conspiracy with the 500,000 people who worked on Apollo. I saw a Saturn V launch when I was 7. It had to be going SOMEWHERE.

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    6. It's far less than amazing that no one starting spinning the "fake moon landing theory" until after the debut of the god-awful cinematic crime against humanity, Capricorn One was burped out at the box office in '78 in the U.S.

      After that, Art Bell and his call-in dorks couldn't shut up about it for...ever.

      It's like the two drunken pub idiots in Britain who went out in a local barley field with a 2"x4" one night and half in the bag, stomped out some crop circles.
      Six months later, after multiple forays to pull the chain of the locals and the news idiots, they told people how they started it, but The Faithful and the copycats wouldn't have any of it, and people still keep doing it, absolutely convinced it's space aliens trying to communicate with us.




      And yet people wonder why I'd scatter old rifle brass around the grassy spots in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, and why old mountain geezers from Montana to San Bernardino make 2'-long plywood monster feet snowshoes, and go out romping in fresh snow...

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  4. I'm 73 and guessed they were probably astronauts. Couldn't name any except for Shepard, Grissom and Glenn (which these three above ain't).

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  5. That is the 80's band Talking Heads.

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  6. as a native of Auglaize county Ohio I had better know at least one of then. The museum in Wapakoneta is quite good

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    1. I’ve seen the folks that shut down bingo in Wapokoneta.

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  7. I’m an Allen county native myself, next county to the north. Been to “Wapak” and the museum myself a few times, even watched an RC airplane show held in their parking lot years ago. Good area to grow up in.

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  8. Neil Armstrong meets Igor Sikorsky.

    https://www.flightjournal.com/impossible-barriers-are-made-to-be-broken/

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  9. I saw all 3 at the 1970 Rose Parade in Pasadena!

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  10. I saw them at the 25th anniversary celebration at the Kennedy Space Center. My wife was working on the shuttles back in ‘94. There were still folks there who worked on Apollo and had met them. Didn’t get to meet them, though.

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  11. The middle one was an unrepentant thief.

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  12. Liar #1, liar #2, and liar #3.

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  13. Here's a whole lotta moon hoax to keep you busy for days. The Stanley Kubrick supplements are very interesting. Lots of info here.
    https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2021/10/the-moon-landing-hoax-must-see-video-2677728.html

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  14. I'd love to take all you idiots who think we didn't go to the Moon, shove you into a descent module, and let you crash on it. Quit being so damned stupid, you make this planet a dimmer place.

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    1. You're of the idiots who think Oswald did it. You believe whatever the television tells you. You need more vaccine. Keep that face diaper on.

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    2. You're a moron with delusions of intelligence.

      Bounce a laser off a reflector at any one of six different lunar landing sites, and tell the class how they got there.

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  15. i'm over 60, and I watched them accomplishing what was once thought to be impossible.

    Steven Y.

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  16. It's the Pep Boys: Manny, Moe, and Jack!

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  17. Weird how many people think wrestling on TV is real , but the moon landing was fake.

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