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Started by Sheilbh, August 25, 2012, 02:24:25 PM

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Sheilbh

August 25, 2012, 02:24:25 PM
Reportedly died today :(
Let's bomb Russia!

Razgovory

#1
August 25, 2012, 02:31:03 PM
What?  No!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

sbr

#2
August 25, 2012, 02:35:22 PM
Yep, too bad. :(

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825

Quote(Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at the age of 82, U.S. media reported on Saturday.

Armstrong underwent a heart-bypass surgery earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on August 5, to relieve blocked coronary arteries.

As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the moon's dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight. The following year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology.

He left NASA a year later to become a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

The former astronaut lived in the Cincinnati area with his wife, Carol.

(Reporting by Sandra Maler; Editing by Philip Barbara)


Legbiter

#3
August 25, 2012, 02:35:47 PM
Damn.  :(
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DGuller

#4
August 25, 2012, 02:39:26 PM
Not a good week for Armstrongs.  :(

Caliga

#5
August 25, 2012, 02:56:31 PM
 :(
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Scipio

#6
August 25, 2012, 03:07:11 PM
Now Siege will never know the truth...
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Zanza

#7
August 25, 2012, 03:08:10 PM
RIP

The Brain

#8
August 25, 2012, 03:42:27 PM
RIP

Seems awfully convenient that one of the main witnesses to the alleged landing just happens to die.
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CountDeMoney

#9
August 25, 2012, 03:54:08 PM
When will they ever learn to stop staffing the weekend desk with interns

Ed Anger

#10
August 25, 2012, 04:17:16 PM
Wapakoneta's own.  :cry:
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grumbler

#12
August 25, 2012, 05:07:31 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 25, 2012, 03:54:08 PM
When will they ever learn to stop staffing the weekend desk with interns


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mongers

#13
August 25, 2012, 05:43:29 PM
RIP  :(

Who have thought that the experienced pilots and scientists who first visited the moon, would now be into old age and passing away, yet still no other humans have followed in their footsteps.

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Habbaku

#14
August 25, 2012, 05:58:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 25, 2012, 05:43:29 PM
Who have thought that the experienced pilots and scientists who first visited the moon, would now be into old age and passing away, yet still no other humans have followed in their footsteps.

:huh:
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