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Title says it all, congrats to Neil, Buzz and Michael.

Awful lonely out there ain't it though?

Sure it is... real lonely out there... Just wish I could stay a bit longer.







May humankind find the focus and resolution to reach any star they please.

This was a triumph.......
I'm making a note here.........
HUGE SUCCESS!!!!
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction!

I remember watching this live on TV.

Y'all know they shot that footage on a soundstage.

Joe Rogan (yes, the comedian who hosted Fear Factor) thinks it was faked, and if he's not an expert on astronomy and aerospace engineering - who is?

We really went to the moon.
Beside Joe rogan is a dick. He thinks any comedian whose better then him steals jokes.

garret wrote:We really went to the moon.
Beside Joe rogan is a dick. He thinks any comedian whose better then him steals jokes.

But Carlos Mencia is stealing jokes, so not everybody can wrong all the time.

It is pretty awesome to think that we were able to put a human being on a ball of rock thousands of miles away and return him safely. I'm proud of this accomplishment and I hope to see it again in my lifetime.

Not just one, but twelve people went to the moon according to QI. And 2012 is supposed to be the next manned mission to the moon.

@ BrookM: I was speaking in more general terms.

It's incredible that we are capable of doing such a thing.

*The Brian Regan bit about putting a man on the man still makes me chuckle.

barlio wrote:

garret wrote:We really went to the moon.
Beside Joe rogan is a dick. He thinks any comedian whose better then him steals jokes.

But Carlos Mencia is stealing jokes, so not everybody can wrong all the time.

...

There's a famous comedian in the UK called Bob Monkhouse, he died a few years ago.

He used to work hard to think up jokes and sketches, and wrote them all down in a set of ringbinder notebooks.

Here's a few of his classics:

"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now."

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my father. Not screaming and terrified like his passengers."

"I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard."

One day, some burglar broke into his house and stole his ringbinder. So it does happen.

He got the noteback back in the end.

While I was born in late '68, I did not see this on the telly.
I was only about 6 months old, so I have no recall of the time anyway - but we didn't get a telly until 1976.

I did get to watch Apollo XVII though (at school, I think), and met Gene Cernan a decade or so later on one of his lecture tours.