HEROES
HEROES
Actually doing something kids can look up to and not expecting an endorsement deal for it
(Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin)
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Meh. Not motivational at all. Or funneh. 2/5
There’s not even anything to fight about! 1/5 ;p
It’s a fake moon behind them!! Fake moon! Conspiracy!!
Ooh! Finally the proof we’ve been looking for!
I spent last night watching a documentary which examined/debunked this conspiracy. It was quite funny.
Cool. Maybe we can get some of those pro conspiracy types in here to comment. Would be interesting.
That’d make things more fun!
Hey! How much of a hero do you have to be to put on a fake space suit and jump around on a fake moon set hidden away in the desert?!?
Hollywood isn’t a desert
*can’t even get his conspiracy right… grumble*
It was filmed at Area 51 (in a desert) and not hollywood.
*can’t even get conspiracy debunking right…grumble*
Area 51 doesn’t exist!
*can’t even piggyback conspiracies well… grumble*
Grumblilng doesn’t exist!
*can’t even … grumble grumble*
Spelling and grammar don’t exist!
*can’t even complain about grumbling correctly… grumble*
but toof fairy is real!
since when does mythbusters count as a documentary
There was an actual documentary as well, not only the Mythbusters episode.
I don’t believe any such documentary was even made. It’s clearly a fake.
I doubt it does? I wouldn’t call it that, at any rate.
Mythbusters did an episode on that last night…thought it was entertaining to watch
What did they blow up this time?
THE MOON ITSELF
That’s no moon…
It’s a space station!
pfft to big to be a space station, chewie keep flying…stoopid hooman
Ooh. I just thought of one fighting matter! Popped up back on a “hero”-caption for the Hudson landing:
Someone who’s just doing their job is not a hero!
(I agree with some arguments both for and against this, so … It’s just the only fighting issue around this caption that I can think of atm.)
Uhhhmmm… *ducks pink elephant above*
Are you trying to stir up drama!?!?
*Hides from the Drama Llama AND the pink elephant*
You can run, but you can’t hide..
But of course I am!
These guys all got endorsement deals. They’re even in ads in the most recent Time magazine. Whoever made this is an idiot.
They GOT endorsements, but didn’t EXPECT them.
You’d better call Harry Potter because this platform’s heavyhandedness is a 10.
You know, instead of 9 and 3/4. Okay so it was bad. But seriously, three soapbox captions in a row?!
Soapboxing about what in particular? I must be tired, I don’t really get how you mean.
The last three were incredibly pretentious. “Look at this guy (these guys), he’s (they’re) so much better than all of these darn hooligans and all their new-fangled technology! And, since I see that, I’m awesome by association! Get off my lawn, you 21st century ruffians!”
Okay so maybe it wasn’t like THAT exactly, but close enough.
eddie made the last 3 captions?!
I think Eddie was maybe the authors’ intended demographic, but he tends to have much funnier lols.
Thanks Jane! Good lawn work.. you’re privileges are extended indefinitely.
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Shortright, are you implying that I’m pretentious? Say it ain’t so!
i was referring to the “get off my lawn” aspect of things!
Aww, failure on my part.. for that I will grant you lawn privileges. It’s up to you and Jane to keep the unwashed masses away.
What about that masses that do get washed? If not careful you’ll spark a non-clean affirmitive action movement!
Unwashed is a metaphor for those not worthy to step on the lawn. Prove your worthy and you too may be granted privileges. Until that time occurs though, get the hell off my lawn!
-Touches blade of grass on Eddie’s lawn-
-Prepares scales for shotgun blast-
Pfft.. throws bucket of water at Ty-gore.. that should take care of that.
-Giggles and swims in puddle just outside Eddie’s picket fence-
You cannot defeat me with water, silly. I am made of Consummate V’s and majesty.
Ah. Yes. I see what you mean. And agree.
Third-ed!
Yes because if there’s somebody who isn’t heavy handed, depressing, and whiney it’s Harry Potter.
Surely his ill-posed teenage angst can free us from this oppression.
Oh it was a joke, lighten up Tacokid. Besides, I could just be saying that this is MORE heavy-handed than HP and that he should be contacted and informed of being one-upped. Don’t crucify me.
I can’t work out how they actually feel about Harry Potter, but if you want to see his angst… [link]
Holy schnikies! I had to watch them all!
I love introducing people to the joys of Potter Puppet Pals. Mysterious Ticking Noise is the best, imo.
Defensive much?
they’re white. better review the test.
revoke their moonwalks! i don’t see enough minorities in that photo!
Only MJ can moonwalk!
Not any more!
Those people look photoshopped, or at least cardboard cut outs. I claim hax!
hax0r!
LEET!!
*sigh*
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it’s l33t!
I know that… Grrr!
I thought so, which is why you got a *sigh* and not a b!tch slap..
What if I PREFER a bitch slap *presents ass-cheek*
*presents boot*.. not exactly a b!tch slap, but from my perspective it still has the desired effect.
Rule 34. See: “Boot in the boo-tay.”
fsck! I hate the rules..
aaaah, who let Barney out?
mm i think doing your ob is not exactly what heroes do, they get paid BIG money to do their job, whats hero about that?
and about the theories and all, i havent seen any documentary pro or against, but cmon guys you have to admit there is something wrong about that, i think it was a fake, but to each its own
Of course it’s fake. I mean look at that moon, it’s a total cardboard cutout. Not to mention it’s too small; the real moon is at least three times that size.
Nuh-uh! The moon is smaller than an elephant, silly bunz.
Yeah but elephants are about 4 times larger than that…
I don’t think it’s fair to make fun of a woman just because she happens to be from the Discworld.
And is made of cheese..or was it smores?
I guess no firefighter or police officer or member of the military is a hero either, according to that logic. The astronauts at that time may just have been doing their jobs, but it did take big brass ones to do what they did.
It’s not easy at all to sit strapped in helpless while you ride on up out beyond the grip of gravity, then fulfill the mission that took precise calculations etc to complete, and be prepared for if something went wrong. They wanted to do it, they worked their hardest to be the ones who were picked for it, but I still admire them for that part of it, for stepping up and going in the first place.
I think one astronaut described it as sitting strapped to a rocket which was built by the lowest bidder…
I believe that was either Gus Grissom or John Glenn.. I can’t remember which, but they were spot on!
Yup. Makes me think of the tragic O-ring incident with the shuttle.
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Did you know that Gus Grissom was later exonerated for what happened during his Mercury flight. Everyone thought he was full of it, but it was later proven that it was a design flaw. Again, the lowest bidder..
… but …
That was actually Steve Buscemi in “Armageddon”, the movie with Bruce Willis – or at least he had that line in the movie…
How do you do an ob?
First you get your B.A., then go to medical school, pass your boards and get an M.D., then go for OB/GYN training. I think?
Very meticulously. She KNOWS where that G-spot is…
Mythbusters debunked most of the claims by those who think the moonwalking was fake. I don’t know where you heard about the lunar soil being stolen, you may want to check your source and tell him to get out of his mom’s basement and get some sun while your at it.
Also, if it was a conspiracy, it would have to be kept secret by not only tens of thousands of people in the US but also by thousands of people in the Indian, Chinese and Japanese space agencies as well since they all currently have or has had orbiters around the moon and took photos of the lunar landing sights. Don’t you think if anyone was going to come up with evidence about a hoax, it would be the Chinese? So, enough of this hoax crap and get a life.
i only see 8 pieces of flair
Buahaha! I see 10 but that’s def well below the minimum flair requirement.
i see 6 on the front, one on the chest, and one on the shoulder. are there more hiding?
Looking at this again, they look better with helmets on.
Apparently you dont know or fully understand the inefficiencies and incompetancy of the US government. They could f<ck up an anvil with a rubber hammer.
Sorry to burst your bubble motivator maker, but actually, the astronauts had a very big, lucrative deal with life magazine.
The Moon landing happened. It’s just that there could have been things that happened during the Moon landing that NASA didn’t want people to know about. My father, who listened to the original landing live, remembers an additional, smaller craft that was following Apollo and no one knew what it was. At the time there was a lot of speculation about it being a probe sent by the Russians, but it’s very difficult to find anyone that remembers or acknowledges that event today. Basically you had to have listened to the mission live to know about it. If there was something related to this, I could see why NASA would have gotten rid of the original tapes.
Still, it is an alibi fail because NASA should have come up with a better excuse than that.
Hey, for everybody that still has a shred of interest in the space program (gutted as it is) I wish you a very happy Apollo Day, a day late.
I was about 15 feet away from Neil Armstrong once. It was pretty freakin’ cool considering the man is such a recluse.
The fact that you feel that way is so full of win it warms that stony organ in my chest…
I was lucky enough to actually attend a lecture Neal Armstrong gave and be invited to an after party. I have a photo with him. He is an incredibly humorous and humble man. I’ve met politicians and movie stars, but I felt that I was in the presence of someone great when I met him, but he would totally not agree. It was an honor to meet someone who actually did make a difference.
Except Armstrong doesn’t do autographs.
But it would have been full of win of he said “Kentucky Fried Chicken” as he stepped onto the moon.
“Never rub another mans rhubarb……”
Who needs endorsements when you can charge up to $1000 for an autograph.
reason why they didn’t need/want endorsements: astronaut groupies.
And yet, they went all the way to the Moon without breaking their toilet….
True, but they didn’t have a whole gang of people using it either..
I don’t see how going up into space and wasting a ton of money is heroic. Brave, yes, but so is the stuff they do on Jackass.
Jackass isn’t doing something courageous in the attempt of learning and exploring.
You can argue that they attempt to learn how painful/embarassing, something is, but that would like saying “We know fire’s hot… but how badly will it burn?” Does that question every voluntarily need to be answered?
There was a very interesting story about that actually.
The video the American public was NOT the original tape of the moon landing. NASA never got their hands on it until recently.
You see, the broadcast beamed down from the lunar lander hit home in Australia where it was processed onto tapes. That tape was of course sent through channels through a closed circuit network directly to NASA, whom having no other way to turn this direct signal into a broadcast, set up a camera to tape the monitor that was displaying the footage. That’s what the American public saw.
The original tapes were stored, but not found, until recently.
That’s where the screw up is… I guess a tape labeler with “FREAKING MOONWALK TAPES” wouldn’t work to label and identify these tapes. But oh well.
Maybe they thought it was the Michael Jackson movie.
These were everyday men that with the backing of legions of everyday men, did the incredible. I grew up in the 60’s literally in the shadown of MSC/NASA. These men were my neighbors, their kids were my playmates. I had the best childhood ever watching so many people come together for a great cause…that spun-off so many inventions that we now take for granted. At the time, the tech was so very low…NASA and their contractors were the historical equivalent of Vikings striking out across the Atlantic in shallow boats. Sigh, what so many of you people don’t realize what into this mission of Man. The best, the brightest. America’s most glorious moment. An earthling on another solar system entity. It boggles the mind. God speed all those NASA folks, contractors and their contributors. I wouldn’t be posting this if it weren’t for the space program.
I dream of a better tomorrow… Where chickens can cross the road without being questioned about their motives.
Now THAT’S funny!
True but not funny. Just propaganda.
Agreed.
This is supposed to be a site for LOLs.
Buzz Aldrin endorsed a game called “Race to Space” in the early 90’s. Factual caption fail.
Still better than most people considered heroes or role models. Only 1/3rd sold out? Judging by today’s trends, that’s a miracle.
Accuracy fail. Buzz Aldrin’s speaking fees start at $30,000 per engagement, while Neil Armstrong’s start at $100,000 on AllAmericanSpeakers dot com. Michael Collins doesn’t do speaking, and has done a couple of autograph sessions for NovaSpace for money.
NASA never claimed it was stolen. The tapes were in a batch of 200,000 other tapes that were sent for degaussing to be re-used.
I don’t understand the science as to why the moon landings were or were not faked. I do know that the landings were real for one simple reason: Apollo 13. NASA, in dire need of funding, wouldn’t have faked a failure. Also, when those three men were in trouble, the entire world took notice. We even had offers from our enemies for help.
la la la, link to ‘proof’ it was fake:
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=8953651620589384120&ei=TwhbSoTyJsKu-AbLsqS3Cg&q=farsa+viaje+a+la+luna&hl=es&dur=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_Oy5aASM4
byebe!
BREAKING NEWS
Ther eis now, finally, photo evidence of the major issue with NASA mess-ups that they have spent the last four decades covering up for:
Houston, we have a problem
Well. One of the more famous astronauts ended up shilling for Eastern Airlines almost the second he retired from space travel. So mmmmmmeh.
“NASA DIDNT HAVE MONEY”
Yes, this exactly. NASA has not ever had enough money.
I read that as “hookers…” I don’t know how
ehhh, it was because they found Data’s head up there! NASA doesn’t want us to see any of those alien artifacts littering the moon. 8^D