[Rhodes22-list] Moon Mutterings

[Brad Haslett]

Stan,

Three engineers are working on a project in a third world country.  A coup
takes place and a the new dictator orders all foreigners be killed.  The
three engineers are taken to the guillotine (their method of capital
punishment).  The first engineer, an MIT graduate, is placed in the stocks
and when the executioner pulls the lever, the knife remains frozen in
place.  The executioner explains that the law in that country is that if the
equipment fails, the intended victim is free to go.

Next up is a Stanford grad.  The same thing happens and he gets up and runs
off.

The third engineer, a Purdue graduate, is placed under the knife.  Just as
the executioner places his hand on the release lever the Purdue genius looks
over and says, "I think if you lube that pin in the lever and tighten the
tension on the cable the darn thing will work."

Brad


On 10/2/06, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>
> what do you expect from a Purdue engineer.
>
> ss
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:05 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Moon Mutterings
>
>
> This article is in today's UK Times.  I don't believe it and will tell you
> the rest of the story after you read it.  Brad
>
> -----------------
>
>
> The Times October 02, 2006
> One small word is one giant sigh of relief for ArmstrongFrom Jacqui
> Goddard
> in Miami
>         (NASA)
>
> IT WAS the perfect quote to match a momentous occasion. As Neil Armstrong
> became the first man to walk on the Moon in 1969, a global audience of 500
> million people on Earth watched and listened with bated breath.
>
> "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," they heard
> him
> say as he dropped from the ladder of his spacecraft to make the first
> human
> footprint on the lunar surface.
>
> But from the moment he said it, and for 37 years since, debate has raged
> over whether the Nasa astronaut might have fluffed his lines.
>
> Mr Armstrong has long insisted that he meant to say "one small step for a
> man . . ." — which would have been a more meaningful and grammatically
> correct version, free of tautology. But even the astronaut himself could
> not
> be sure.
>
> "Damn, I really did it. I blew the first words on the Moon, didn't I?" he
> is
> reported to have asked officials later, amid uncertainty as to whether he
> had blown the moment or simply been drowned out by static interference as
> his words were relayed 250,000 miles back to Earth.
>
> Now, after almost four decades, the spaceman has been vindicated. Using
> high-tech sound analysis techniques, an Australian computer expert has
> rediscovered the missing "a" in Mr Armstrong's famous quote. Peter Shann
> Ford ran the Nasa recording through sound-editing software and clearly
> picked up an acoustic wave from the word "a", finding that Mr Armstrong
> spoke it at a rate of 35 milliseconds — ten times too fast for it to be
> audible.
>
> Mr Ford's findings have been presented to Nasa officials in Washington and
> to a relieved Mr Armstrong, who issued a statement saying: "I find the
> technology interesting and useful. I also find his conclusion persuasive."
>
> Mr Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who stepped out seconds after him,
> landed the*Apollo 11
> * Lunar Excursion Module on the Moon on July 20, 1969. In the tense six
> hours and forty minutes between touching down and stepping out, Mr
> Armstrong
> wrote what he knew would become arguably the most memorable words in
> history. But Nasa was bombarded with inquiries and the recordings were
> hastily reviewed.
>
> The space agency backed Mr Armstrong's claim that there should have been
> an
> "a", but they agreed that, on official documents, the "a" should be placed
> in brackets because no one could be sure he said it.
>
> In his official biography,* First Man*, Mr Armstrong tells the author
> James
> Hansen: "It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On
> the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement . . .
> certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement
> makes any sense."
>
> Professor Hansen said: "Neil's not got much of an ego, he's a very modest
> man, but I think this really means something to him to have the proof."
>
> Officials at Nasa have met Mr Ford to discuss his findings. They have now
> instructed their own analysts to run in-house tests.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Now, as Paul Harvey would say, "here's the rest of the story!"
>
> Armstrong grew up in Ohio and in the early years as a child lived in a
> duplex next to Mr. & Mrs. Kline.  The walls between the two households
> were
> thin and young Neil could hear every conversation between the
> Kline's.  Mr.
> Kline, "Manny", was always begging Mrs. Kline for a blowjob.  She would
> always reply, "Manny, you'll get a blowjob when men walk on the moon!"
>
> What Armstrong really said from Tranquility base was, "One small step for
> a
> man, one giant leap for Manny Kline!"
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