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- ctiedje, on 06/23/2009, -1/+31tough to top the high of being on the moon no matter how much you drink
- alpha19, on 06/24/2009, -0/+28I would be depressed too if I went to the moon and realized there was probably nothing else that could top that for the rest of my life. I hope this man lives to see humans step foot on Mars. That's a stretch though...
- BlackOculus, on 06/24/2009, -0/+28Putting in years of hard work, risking your neck countless times to be given the chance to attempt something never before done in the history of mankind only to achieve the impossible.
Then to realize that half brained idiots who believe everything they read/watch are calling you a liar all the while everyone else gives all the credit to your friend because he technically placed his feet on the moon a minute before you did.
I can see why he went to the bottle.
For what it's worth though, there are still those of us that admire people like him. And to answer the question where was I on July 20, 1969?....wasn't born yet. - skabyss, on 06/24/2009, -2/+26The guy went to the moon, let him live however the hell he wants to.
- Wypie, on 06/24/2009, -0/+15Moonshine.
- Coven, on 06/24/2009, -0/+146 times. we landed on the moon 6 times.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+14I've heard this has happened to quite a few astronauts.Being in space can be such a profound, life-changing experience that they can't fully describe, and one that so few other people have experienced that they end up alienated, depressed, and lapsing into addiction. Ironically enough, maybe the strangest, most alien world an astronaut will encounter is earth up his return
- rizzo2008, on 06/24/2009, -1/+13you conspiracy theorists really believe anything that is presented to you. The moon landings happened...7 times get over it
- korashime2001, on 06/24/2009, -1/+11There's a difference between letting the man live his life, and letting him destroy himself, and the lives of his loved ones. We owe him some help at the very least don't we?
- Coven, on 06/24/2009, -0/+9um...Collins was the one in the CSM while Buzz and Neil were on the moon...
Christ...are people really this ignorant of critical moments in history? - inactive, on 06/24/2009, -1/+10Whatever you do, DO NOT call this man a liar. Doesn't tend to work out well for people.
- borez, on 06/24/2009, -0/+9Moon landing are one hell of a drug.
- Subduction, on 06/24/2009, -0/+9Yeah, because no one is remembering Buzz Aldrin. Never heard of him.
- jasdf, on 06/24/2009, -0/+8Seriously? Do you seriously believe that we didn't go to the moon? The technology was there, the physics work, and all of the engineering was done. Why do all the work without doing the actual trip?
- Subduction, on 06/24/2009, -0/+8Facepunch! Bam! You've been Buzzed!
- ApokalypseNow, on 06/24/2009, -0/+7People like CrazedLeper actually *do* believe that sort of thing, and it belittles the efforts and heroism of the people who did go, and those who supported them.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+7Alcohol is a powerful drug. Far more addictive and more dangerous than many that are illegal, Marijuana in particular.
- rizzo2008, on 06/24/2009, -1/+8oups Apollo 13 accident my bad
- pebecker, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6I do. Now they're in the flat face society.
- SharpEye, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6Really? Thinking it was more of a team effort...
- DulcetTone, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6Yes, Aldrin called "shotgun" before Collins realized the opportunity had come and gone.
- ApokalypseNow, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6If we haven't been there, explain the lunar mirrors we use to measure the distance from here to the moon.
- diggon, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6Many astronauts have given accounts on how dramatically their view of world, life, and spirituality changed after seeing Earth from space. I can't imagine how mind blowing it was for Buzz to see the Earth from the Moon.
- diggopolous, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6Where was I on July 20th 1969? Getting my mind blown by watching the moon landing.
- budboomer, on 06/24/2009, -0/+5You're the only one.
- Subduction, on 06/24/2009, -1/+6Terrific! Here goes:
Even within the stupid rules of your stupid construct your statement is stupid. The fact that you can't seem to even use the word God in a colloquial or stereotypical sense without feeling the need to show that you're "down" with the cool atheist meme is quite stupid in itself, but asserting that a "God*" in any form made the compounds in marijuana but had no hand in the compounds in alcohol would make even the stupidest philosophy student call you stupid.
Add to that the fact that intoxicating alcohols ferment naturally in berries all the time, much to the delight of birds everywhere, and that beer has been traditionally made for four thousand years using only naturally occurring yeasts, and you win the Stupidly Stupid Award for Stupidest Post of the Day.
And next time use the reply button for what it was designed for, stupid.
*FSM - inactive, on 06/24/2009, -1/+6LM pilot consisted of reading off gauges. Watch a youtube of the landing; you'll hear the phrase, "3 feet down, two and a half; picking up some dust." That was Buzz's main job - to read off gauges for Neil.
Not to say he didn't train to fly the LM back, but really Armstrong deserves pretty much all the credit he gets preventing the LM from crashing into volkswagon sized boulders at the intended landing site. - Subduction, on 06/24/2009, -3/+8Even among stupid things to say, that is among the stupidest.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+5you make good points but try not to be so much of a *****.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+4Yeah, I'd still be down. I do enough drinking here on earth that I think I could manage.
- jasdf, on 06/24/2009, -0/+4I'll deal with all of that, just send me up.
- jasdf, on 06/24/2009, -0/+4Added to my Amazon list.
- Coven, on 06/24/2009, -2/+6Armstrong should get the credit. He was the one who manually piloted the LM to the surface.
- tao52nyc, on 06/24/2009, -1/+440 years later, and I still have to hear this guy talk about his alcoholism. Every damn space conference he attends...it's like he's now addicted to recovery. I want to hand him a drink just to make him shut up about it.
- Nekura20x6, on 06/24/2009, -0/+3I can't imagine going back to a normal life after that. You've got this one, amazing, untoppable moment in your life and then have 50 years to do nothing but think about what that one day was like.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -1/+4Alright, you got me.
Allow me to humbly confirm the skepticism you so rightly expressed by placing "heard" in sneer quotes. There's obviously no way I could have gathered such information with my ears. I must have "read' it, or perhaps even "watched" it on television.
And yes, sorry for the new age ramblings. It's hard for me to make a post that isn't littered with references to crystals, bastardizations of eastern thought and Yanni songs.
I also apologize if the ramblings themselves start to make assertions; it's an odd communication problem I have. Sometimes my comments also write poems when I'm not not around, too.I hope this phenomenon is governed by science and medicine, so I can receive treatment for it.
If only I could edit my comment to remove "quite" from it, as well as provide properly citation regarding incidents of astronaut addiction-alas, I cannot .However, I promise, in the names of Science and Medicine, to try to be more careful from now on. - Subduction, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Thanks!
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2No, thank *you*.
- Coven, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2But did Aldrin wait until the LM was within eyeshot? Everybody knows you can't do it while you're sitting on the couch.
- tonyteetime, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Who took my moonshine ?
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Not to make light of alcoholism, but *****.. when you've been to the ***** moon, life down here probably seems a lot less interesting.
- tech42er, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Neil's job during the LM landing was to look out the window for where they were landing. Buzz's was to keep an eye on the altitude and fuel. When Neil and Buzz realized that they were heading for a very dangerous area, Neil took manual control of the LM and flew it a little farther than had been intended to land in a safe area.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Way to crowbar the atheism in, champ, similar to the way some fundamentalists use any opportunity to pontificate about religion...
....*very* similar. - inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Sorta like short-circuiting a supercomputer that's hellbent on destroying mankind by asking it the value of pi, huh?
Fine, but I warn you: two can play this game.Don't make me mock you over and over for using the word "stupidest'... - arunforce, on 06/24/2009, -2/+4♫ YOU GOT ME WALKING ON THE MOOOOOOON ♫
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2He likes to get "Buzzed"
- WhiteMike87, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Yup, a little thing called the Cold War.
- colinmhayes, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2sarcasm can easily be lost on many, many people.
- Subduction, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2I'm trying to think of a way to make you try to be so sarcastic you lose structural integrity.
- tech42er, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2If you haven't read the book, he recovered. The descent into alcoholism and depression was because he went from a very structured environment (West Point, Air Force, NASA), made an incredible achievement, and then got treated like a media tool by the government and NASA. So he lost all sense of direction. Poor guy (not unlike what happened to one of the guys in that famous Iwo Jima flag photo). The good news is he eventually got help, recovered, and met the love of his life. He seemed pretty happy when I saw him (at the B&N book signing) yesterday.
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