I hope this isn't in bad taste...

[WilliamPitt]

The greatest Onion headline/story of all time.

HOLY SHIT
MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON
http://members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html

It's funny because it's true.

[PCIntern]

1. The BEST!

Literally LOL funny...

[drm604]

2. I've seen that before and I like it,

but for some reason that particular webpage causes my Firefox browser to crash every time I open it.

[valerief]

3. You know what? If our country wasn't pussywhipped by religious poutrage,

the dialogue in the Onion article is probably exactly like the real dialogue would have been, because that's how real people in America talked in 1969.



The article is a hoot!

[sellitman]

4. Did you read todays headlines?

USADA accidentally strips Neil Armstrong of "first man on moon" title

[WilliamPitt]

5. *groan*

[lunatica]

6. Not in bad taste at all

It actually makes things better.

Thanks

[Surya Gayatri]

7. I suspect that Neil Armstrong, the real man and not the myth,

the private and retired person we hardly saw in the intervening years, would have laughed his ass off at this!
Bwaahaaaa!

[sarge43]

8. At the time that's what a lot of us said

or "Jesus H Christ, they fucking did it!"

[mgc1961]

9. No, it's not in bad taste.

Tranquility: Footpads depressed one or two inches. Surface is powdery. One more step, and I'm... Fuck. (Long pause.) I'm hyperventilating. Hold on.

In all seriousness, have you ever wondered what Armstrong's heart rate must have been as he was about to step onto the surface of the fucking moon?

[drm604]

10. Surely they were measuring his heart rate.

As far as I know there was constant remote monitoring of the astronauts' vital signs. I wonder if those records still exist.

[sarge43]

12. Probably not that high

He was the personification of cool, calm, collected - perfect engineer and test pilot. One of the reasons he got the job. After manually piloting the landing with Eagle running on fumes, everything after must have seemed no sweat.

[mgc1961]

14. I'm sure it wasn't through the roof. He'd probably rehearsed every move hundreds of times.

However, I know from experience that when I've been in an stressful situation those around me say they saw only calm, cool, and collected, but that's not an exact reflection of what was going on inside. Hell, sometimes I even sweat.

[sarge43]

16. True enough

I'm sure the landing was his "Please God, don't let me fuck up" moment. If he had flinched even for a nanosecond, Apollo 11 would have been a tragedy, not a triumph. As they say, the pros never let you see them sweat.

[unblock]

13. when you train for something like that for ages, you're prepared for it.

when you've mentally gone through something like that so many times the actual moment isn't nearly as stressful or surprising as it was for the rest of us.

besides, he had tons of technical details occupying his mind at the time, not to mention trying to squeeze in his famous quote. he only had time for a brief sentence and then he had to move on to all the experiments and data collection missions.

obviously he was aware of the significance of the moment and i'm sure his heart rate reflected that, but i'd guess his heart rate didn't go up nearly as much as the heart rates of those watching it, even from nasa!

[On the Road]

17. "Footpads depressed one or two inches. Surface is powdery"

That powder had been collecting for several billion years. It's a good thing it wasn't, like, twenty feet deep.

[cachukis]

11. Fabulous.

[Pachamama]

15. No, its not in bad taste....what he did was f*cking amazing....

RIP Neil Armstrong....you were f*cking awesome....

[heaven05]

18. that is great