Neil Armstrong would have been 17 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948. In the lifespan of those two men, humanity went from horse-and-buggy to standing on the moon. One wonders what the 17 year olds of today might accomplish...
Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
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#32"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream." --- Neil Armstrong. An inspiring man. RIP.
A good man, and a good engineer.
That, more than one small step, made him a hero worthy of being remembered for the phrase "for all mankind." He made me want to be a better man myself, and to build things of more lasting importance.
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#33Here's a collection of information I just came across about Neil Armstrong:
http://learni.st/users/farbood/boards/3625-neil-armstrong?tb...
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#34"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream." --- Neil Armstrong. An inspiring man. RIP.
"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
My favorite Neil Armstrong quote. Has some relevance to how we think as entrepreneurs.
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#35What's sad is that we didn't yet returned to the moon, and he won't live to see it.
There have been 13 moon walks since the Apollo 11 mission in which he was the first to walk on the moon, spanning 5 missions from 1969-1972, FYI. He was the first, but definitely not the last.
This snarky comment is quite superfluous, I say.
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#36Did anyone read "Armstrong" and first thought of Lance Armstrong? When his life achievements were stripped away, I thought he would be on suicide watch.
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#37Neil Armstrong would have been 17 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948. In the lifespan of those two men, humanity went from horse-and-buggy to standing on the moon. One wonders what the 17 year olds of today might accomplish...
I couldn't agree more, we stand constantly at the start of new things, in another 70 years, we will be so far past where we are now that to the people of those times it will seem as though we were as backwards as the people of 1948 seemed to us.
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#38"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream." --- Neil Armstrong. An inspiring man. RIP.
"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10." My favorite Neil Armstrong quote. Has some relevance to how we think as entrepreneurs.
Huh, I've heard that attributed to Bill Gates, but Neil Armstrong said it in 1969. I wonder if he got it from someone else?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
There have been 13 moon walks since the Apollo 11 mission in which he was the first to walk on the moon, spanning 5 missions from 1969-1972, FYI. He was the first, but definitely not the last.
This snarky comment is quite superfluous, I say.
I'm sorry if this came off in a snarky way. I simply wanted to talk about our moon history.
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#40Neil Armstrong would have been 17 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948. In the lifespan of those two men, humanity went from horse-and-buggy to standing on the moon. One wonders what the 17 year olds of today might accomplish...
Sadly, I think a consumer of cat pictures with the way our education (people not focusing on math and science) is going