Post by @drmaddkap@meow.social

2023-02-08 18:02 UTC

This is a formal portrait of the surviving Apollo astronauts. That&#39;s Buzz Aldrin in the silver tux. I have to imagine the conversation went like this: ALDRIN: Ok, let&#39;s get started PHOTOGRAPH: Mr. Aldrin, you are aware that this is a formal portrait? BA: I&#39;m not an idiot son. PG: Well your suit- BA: Son, have you been to the moon? PG: No sir. BA: Well I have. The moon. The motherlovin&#39; moon. In a tin can run by a calculator and powered by a can of sterno. (1/)

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@drmaddkap@meow.social 2023-02-08 18:06

.. I get to wear WHAT I want, WHERE I want, WHEN I want for the rest of my natural God-given life. Do you understand me, son? PG: Yes sir. Right this way Mr. Aldrin. It also makes me feel sorry for Charlie Duke. He's the one on the left in the gold-trimmed tux. I bet he thought he was going to stand out. (end)

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@arakin@meow.social 2023-02-09 11:45

@drmaddkap@meow.social it does draw the eye away from the Stars and Stripes socks 😁

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@stumblewyk@jawns.club 2023-02-09 16:12

@drmaddkap@meow.social I used to live across the street from a gentleman who was a programmer on a number of the Apollo missions, made a fortune with Xerox in the 70's and then settled down to a life of mowing his enormous lawn in central PA. One day, I was out mowing my own much more modest lawn, and he and I got to talking. He asked to see my phone (an old Motorola RAZR) and he said, "This here phone has more computing power than the Apollo command modules did. If we wanted to update code, we had to (1/2)

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@tristrambrelstaff@mathstodon.xyz 2023-02-27 21:35

@drmaddkap@meow.social It is the suit he wore on the Moon but it shrunk a bit in the wash.

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@libraryogre@dice.camp 2023-03-11 16:33

@drmaddkap@meow.social every time I see stuff like this, I am reminded: I am 45 years old, and we have not set food on the Moon in my lifetime.

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