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Dead Thread 2021 -- If you're reading this, it isn't you.

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MichVandal said:
Michael Collins... https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/s...ichael-collins

Big bummer, but these guys are getting old. It was just under 24 months ago when we were live streaming the whole Apollo 11 flight 50 years later.
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This reminds me of a funny story which I have told before but oh well.

Dr. Mrs.' first job upon arrival in DC, in 2003, was with NASA as a policy liaison. During her perusal of their archives looking for something entirely unrelated she came across invoices for some of the Apollo expenses. Completely mundane stuff like coffee machines and travel vouchers, from the 1960s.

Scrawled across one of the forms, in bold strokes drilled into the paper with great force, were the words "Buzz Aldrin is an as-shole."

No context, nothing. I have never ever been able to forget this whenever I hear or see anything about Aldrin.
 
Everybody be extra kind to Republicans today. It's a tough anniversary for them.

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Kepler said:
This reminds me of a funny story which I have told before but oh well.

Dr. Mrs.' first job upon arrival in DC, in 2003, was with NASA as a policy liaison. During her perusal of their archives looking for something entirely unrelated she came across invoices for some of the Apollo expenses. Completely mundane stuff like coffee machines and travel vouchers, from the 1960s.

Scrawled across one of the forms, in bold strokes drilled into the paper with great force, were the words "Buzz Aldrin is an as-shole."

No context, nothing. I have never ever been able to forget this whenever I hear or see anything about Aldrin.
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Reminds me of Chuck Yeager's line about Neil Armstrong (from Yeager's autobiography), "He may have been the first guy on the moon, but he was the last guy to take advice from ANYBODY."
 
Meh. I read the articles and excerpts. They are not compelling.

reporter: John says he scammed you big time, how's it feel to be such an idiot?
Business: Uh.... we have no record of that ever happening
Reporter: oh, ok. That checks out.

I think it's somewhere in between, obviously.
 
People who aren't dead who surprised me:

Dick van Dyke
Loretta Lynn
Henry Kissinger
Tony Bennett
Harry Belafonte
Imelda Marcos
Sidney Poitier
 
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