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08-25-2012, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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RIP Neil Armstrong
No other details right now. End of an era.
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08-25-2012, 02:35 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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08-25-2012, 02:36 PM
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FOFC's Elected Representative
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The stars at night; are big and bright
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From the NBC news.com
Neil Young as well. 
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08-25-2012, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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RIP Neil Armstrong
 "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." |
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08-25-2012, 02:43 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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RIP. had the pleasure of meeting him once, the most humble hero you will ever encounter.. I was warned before meeting him not to even bring up the moon landing. I got the impression he was embarrassed by his fame and always felt he was just a guy doing his duty.
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08-25-2012, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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That's always been my impression and in a lot of the reading I've done, I'm sure all of those guys wanted to be first, but they all bought into the idea that it was going to be a team thing and the crews before were no different than that crew and were just as important. |
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08-25-2012, 03:44 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: San Jose, CA
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He may have invented it, but Michael Jackson perfected it AMIRITE
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08-25-2012, 03:47 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Lisboa, ME
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One status I saw on Facebook had it perfect:
"History chooses so few of us to be remembered eternally and even fewer for heroic accomplishments. Those most rare of those exceptional people seldom get that universal encapsulating line. Good bye, Neil Armstrong. Literally, he never will be forgotten."
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08-25-2012, 04:24 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Chicago
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Opportunity lost on the thread name, given the one started earlier in the week.
Neil Armstrong - well .... damn. |
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08-25-2012, 04:31 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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This news makes me sad panda.
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08-25-2012, 05:03 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Thought about it, but didn't really want it to be mistaken for a parody thread. |
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08-25-2012, 09:01 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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One of my son's heroes.
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08-26-2012, 11:45 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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Read this as part of a Wired article on Armstrong - talk about a guy with icewater in his veins.
Armstrong’s quiet engineering demeanor was perhaps best demonstrated after a flight in the Lunar Lander Training Vehicle (LLTV). Affectionately known as the “flying bedsteads" the LLTV was used to train astronauts who would be making approaches to the lunar surface and was basically a large jet engine pointed downward and small thrusters that could control the attitude of the vehicle during flight. It was considered a very difficult, and dangerous aircraft to fly. On a LLTV flight in 1968, Armstrong lost control of the aircraft due to a propellant leak and windy conditions. He ejected only moments before It crashed in a fireball. According to James Hansen’s biography, an hour or so later fellow astronaut Alan Bean returned to his desk after lunch and found Armstrong at his own desk simply “shuffling some papers.” Bean didn’t believe what others had told him about the crash so he asked Armstrong who replied, “I lost control and had to bail out of the darn thing.” |
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08-27-2012, 10:36 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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Damn. RIP Neil Armstrong. Definitely one of my heroes when I was growing up and still is.
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08-27-2012, 10:41 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Dec 2009
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"Lance is stripped, then Neil dies. I hope nothing happens to Stretch." - Jim Gaffigan
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