Neil Armstrong just passed away

[Irascor]

Here's a Yahoo New article link about it:

http://news.yahoo.com/nei...moon-dies-193954975.html

[robkelk]

We have got to go back to the Moon sometime soon, if only as a memorial...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Jinx999]

Damn. Just Damn.

[Dartz]

We have got to go back to the Moon sometime soon, if only as a memorial...

The horrible thought occurs to me that, some day soon it may be possible that once again no human being will remember standing on the surface of the moon.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

[Logan Darklighter]

That was my exact same thought, Dartz.
Excuse me while I go find something to break noisily...
Edit: Nothing around here to break in my momentary anger and sorrow, so I just came back and started reading stuff online. And this jumped out at me -

Like a lot of us, the late Ray Bradbury stayed up all night that
night Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. He said he cried all night,
too, he was so happy. And he was beamed round the world via Telstar on
camera with Cronkite, to whom he said:

“We’re always asking, ‘What are we doing here on earth?’
We are the audience. There’s no use having a universe, a cosmology, if
you don’t have witnesses. We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are
put here by creation, by God, by the cosmos, whatever name you want to
give it. We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job
to celebrate.”

Thanks to our space program, when Armstrong stepped foot on lunar soil, the Moon ceased to be just a thing. It became a place.
A place I hope we return to within my lifetime.

[DHBirr]

Awwww, hell....

We have got to go back to the Moon sometime soon, if only as a memorial...

These days it's all about the robots.  If there's any memorial flight, it'll be a robot setting up the plaque, laying the wreath, or whatever.  So much more efficient and less expensive to send robots.  Damn it.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Duane Peters]

It occurs to me that if we can raise a million bucks in *nine days* to build a museum to Nikola Tesla...how much could be raised for a private space effort in the same way? A Kickstarter to return Neil to the Moon, to be laid to rest there?

[Black Aeronaut]

It occurs to me that if we can raise a million bucks in *nine days* to build a museum to Nikola Tesla...how much could be raised for a private space effort in the same way? A Kickstarter to return Neil to the Moon, to be laid to rest there?

Do it.

[DHBirr]

Before you run that Kickstarter, you need to find out what his wishes, and those of his wife and children, were/are in the matter.  I have no idea, but if he desired burial in some specific place on Earth, it'd be out of line for us to decree that he's gonna be buried on Luna.  Otherwise, I'd be all for it.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Star Ranger4]

Speaking of, his family has released the following statement:

http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=38284
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[robkelk]

Before you run that Kickstarter, you need to find out what his wishes, and those of his wife and children, were/are in the matter.  I have no idea, but if he desired burial in some specific place on Earth, it'd be out of line for us to decree that he's gonna be buried on Luna.  Otherwise, I'd be all for it.

This.

Although there's no reason not to put a memorial plaque somewhere near Tranquility Base...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Now that would be a tribute -- a private space effort funded through Kickstarter to lay a plaque by the Eagle.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Rod.H]

Yes, a small memorial in the vicinity of the Eagle would be better, for that initial idea would no doubt freak out a lot of scientists. Besides, Neil Armstrong has well and truly earned his spot in Arlington.

[Bob Schroeck]

If this happens, you realize it'll win the Google X Prize? There's also a complication -- NASA has some restrictions when it comes to getting close to historical spots on the moon...

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

That's why I said "somewhere near Tranquility Base" rather than "at Tranquility Base." When commemorating the achievements of a person, one shouldn't run roughshod over his most-public achievement.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[robkelk]

From CNN:


--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012