Funny of the day: Buzz Aldrin with the best twitter reply ever
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He walked on the moon at roughly 1030 pm. I was 4 years old and remember my father waking me up to watch it telling me how I would remember that moment forever. My father was correct.
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Shaq asked people on Twitter what he should name his new yacht. One reply was: Why don’t you name it free throw. Then you know you will never sink it.
I was in a far away land too. It was called Viet Nam.
flip forward to ~2:45 if four minutes is too long
No need to flip forward...Regan is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
Moon Talking
When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" statement but followed it by several remarks, usual com traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark, "Good luck Mr. Gorsky."
Many people at NASA thought it was a remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs.
Over the years, many people questioned Armstrong as to what the "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled. On July 5, 1995 in Tampa, Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong
This time he finally responded. Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question. Armstrong explained, “When I was a kid, I was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. My friend hit a fly ball which landed in the front of his neighbor's bedroom windows. My neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky. As I leaned down to pick up the ball, I heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex! You want oral sex?!
You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" statement but followed it by several remarks, usual com traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark, "Good luck Mr. Gorsky."
Many people at NASA thought it was a remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs.
Over the years, many people questioned Armstrong as to what the "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled. On July 5, 1995 in Tampa, Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong
This time he finally responded. Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question. Armstrong explained, “When I was a kid, I was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. My friend hit a fly ball which landed in the front of his neighbor's bedroom windows. My neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky. As I leaned down to pick up the ball, I heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex! You want oral sex?!
You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
I asked a 2nd grader......................what did he learn in school today?
His response.................................."Not enough, I have to go back tomorrow"!
His response.................................."Not enough, I have to go back tomorrow"!
Thanks, some things should be taken for face value. I'll place your concern in my little black book of worthless information.
Any info or urban talk on who shot JFK?
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I have a great joke in my collection on your post, I'll post it for you tomorrow, it's filed in my work computer.
Speaking of JFK and the moon...
Being employed in the Aerospace and defense industry, I've always liked this part of his speech, particularly the bold text
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,..."
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
Being employed in the Aerospace and defense industry, I've always liked this part of his speech, particularly the bold text
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,..."
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
God I wish this story was true. Snopes says patently false and I could find no reputable reporting of this. And yes, I'm fun at parties.
The narrative in the story may not be accurate but the existence of the printed story certainly is true, I found it in "Engineering Jokes" on line many years ago.
Sharkie, does it usually rain at the parties you attend?
How were we able to navigate from the Earth to the Moon with such precision?
Before the days of GPS, engineers had to rely on good old fashioned computation…
By Gwendolyn Vines Gettliffe
Plotting the path from a launch pad on Earth to a landing site on the moon — and back again — was made possible in the 1960s by using what we know of the mechanics of the two bodies. These are not easy calculations. After all, the Moon and Earth are moving along their own trajectories, one of them rotating quite quickly the whole time. Fortunately these movements are quite predictable, and there aren’t many twists and turns along the way. Once you’re on the right trajectory, it’s smooth sailing for several days. Continue .....Link:
https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/...om-the-earth-to-the-moon-with-such-precision/
Just finishing Andrew Chaikin’s A Man on the Moon. The whole Apollo program is in it.
It is nothing short of miraculous we didn’t lose a crew during an actual mission, given everything that could, and did, go wrong. Despite it’s problems, America was better then.
It is nothing short of miraculous we didn’t lose a crew during an actual mission, given everything that could, and did, go wrong. Despite it’s problems, America was better then.
I recall reading that Apollo 8, which actually orbited the moon, was a real gamble. After the Apollo 1 fire, they thought we were way behind the Soviets and needed to do something drastic to get ahead. Apollo 8 was given only a 50/50 chance of success.
I was 11 years old and my parents did the same. Something I will never forget along with the USA vs. Soviet Union hockey game in the Olympics in 1980 during my senior year at Penn State.
Wait a minute. Shouldn't he have tweeted: I was on a Hollywood movie set pretending to be on the moon?
Yeah, Apollo 8 was a gamble. The lunar orbital mission was moved up for that mission.
Reading the book, you learn that there were a lot of things that went wrong that thankfully did not end in tragedy.
In retrospect, I would be willing to bet that the odds at least one astronaut would be lost on one of the lunar missions was better than one in two.
Generation Gap Joke
A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.
"You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our space ships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and...," pausing to take another drink of beer.
The older man took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said, "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young... so we invented them. Now, what are YOU and your bunch doing for the next generation?"
The applause was resounding.
True story, one I have posted before.
I work(ed) with an older gentleman - Charlie. Charlie was 78 and still worked a few hours a week. Charlie comes from the era where, if something broke, you fixed it yourself. He always had his tool bag. One day, his grandson calls him and says "Grandpa, my wife and I bought a grandfather clock a few months ago, and it's not working - can you come take a look". So Charlie grabs his tool bag and heads to this grandson's house. He opens the grandfather clock, plays with the pulley system, the knobs, checks the gears....finally he asks his grandson - "how old is the clock?" Grandson gets the receipt and says - it was built in 1993, so it's 25 years old - it's as old as I am.
Charlie says "25 years old? It's not a grandfather clock, it's a millennial clock. No wonder it doesn't want to work".
Heard an interview the other day with an astronaut that knew Buzz Aldrin. Said Buzz was known as a bit of a womanizer. He loved to go to parties and introduce himself as "Buzz Aldrin - 2nd man to walk on the moon; Neil (sic) before me".
Great line. Don't imagine they've heard that one before.
Great line. Don't imagine they've heard that one before.
The funny thing is that the photo above is often attributed as being of Armstrong (even was attributed that way on the auction site auctioning off his memorabilia). It isn't--it's Aldrin, as Armstrong had the main camera most of the moon walk (though he is visible, barley) in the reflection on the visor.
I went to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL as a kid, and the one thing that stuck most with me is they said that Buzz was pissed about not being the one to be the first step on the moon, so he forgot his camera on purpose.
The irony of course being that the helmets are reflective and thus Neil is also visible in every shot as well.
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