Ok ... but how is AccuWeather related here?
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Fun fact, when recording the fake moon landing, Neil Armstrong was such a stickler for details that he refused to film it unless they filmed it on location.
Neil claimed, and I think we should believe him, that he said "a man" but the radio glitched.
The quote works either way. People just need to fuckin chill.
It "works" in that we know what he meant, but it literally doesn't work without the "a".
'Man' is often used in the same way as 'mankind' which is how I've usually seen the quote interpreted. Clearly the article 'a' makes a very big difference but it still makes sense.
Edit: preposition -> article cuz I'm dum
'Man' is often used in the same way as 'mankind'
Yes, which is why without the "a" it doesn't work. "A small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind" is nonsensical.
He was saying he (a man) was literally taking a step with his leg, but it was a figuratively large step for the species because of where/how he was taking that step.
Yeah that’s why DIDN’T fucking say mankind TWICE. Fuckin chill!
It would be redundant and self-contradictory without the "a." That's why it doesn't make sense without it.
You chill.
But also everyone knows what he meant so it doesn’t really matter either way 🤷🏻
I would still leave that up to interpretation. I think it can make sense however I am having trouble putting my interpretation into words.
Two alternative redemptions of the 'a' not being present: It could be viewed as an ellipsis, it does sound slightly more pleasant to me without.
And it would also just be really silly if the first statement said upon stepping onto a celestial body no human has set foot on before is a self contradictory statement is
"a" is an indefinite article, not a preposition. Prepositions are how a verb relates to an indirect object. "The bunny hopped over the fence, around a tree, and down a hole." The italicized words in this sentence are prepositions. In, on, at, near, etc.. You get the idea...
Anyway, the quote is kinda contradictory without the "a". Is it a small step or a giant leap? Oh, it's a giant leap for mankind, and a small step for a man. Makes so much sense now.
Apollo 10; “Whose turd is this floating through the capsule? It’s not mine, mine wasn’t sticky.”
I heard something about the Artemis crew having waste disposal system issues too, but all I could find about it was a bunch of clickbaity YouTube videos and I refuse to watch those.
Has MSFT extended their gaslighting to include:
Actually, a highly trained, educated, and capable NASA astronaut is just not using our product correctly.
???
It really is farsical the degree to which they act like you are just some kind of idiot if their horrendously designed software isn't immediately comprehensible and obvious to you.
You must have missed the part where they were talking about crater albedo and one of them said 6 7 (0.6-0.7) and the chat went wild. Definitely the most significant part of this whole thing.
All that computing power and all we got was slower software and a hallucinating chatbot.
At least I can game on Linux now, thats some real progress.
Ugh I hate that Neil biffed his line
As another poster mentioned, it's likely he said it correctly but the radio glitched/cut/whatever during that time and it cut a word. Neil stated that he said the line correctly.
Didn't NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?
Edit: hmmm, maybe not

I could've sworn I read that some people did some research on the accent of folks from where he was from and the conclusion was that he did say "for a". Exaggerating it, if you say it like "fer a" then sort of slide from one to the other like "fera" and sort of drop a little enunciation off the end you basically end up with "fer". So to me, I think he said "for a" and that was his recollection as well, but either way the quote is basically entrenched as "for" so I don't really think it's worth trying to fight to correct people. Especially when the argument is so full of weird details, but if you just listen to the clip it sounds like he fucking just says "for" lmao.
I was thinking about a similar thing recently because I got a Star Wars question wrong in trivia. The question was what planet is cloud city on. I said Besbin but apparently it's Bespin. Without looking at the word in a subtitle or knowing what it is beforehand they sound exactly alike as far as I can tell.
I like to think he got choked up because of the magnitude of the event. I know I would.
Didn't NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?
The quote makes no sense without "a". It's always annoyed me that it's not added in, whether he said it or not!
It still makes perfect sense, imo. I wouldn't even call it incorrect on a technical level. The contrast between "man" as singular and "mankind" as collective should provide all of the context needed.
If I describe a scene of a story as "man goes to work," no one assumes I'm talking about the collective of humanity.
for A man
Apollo 11 made it to the moon and back with the computer power of a Dollar Tree hand held calculator, and over 50 years later, they can't get a computer that's a million times more powerful to work.
We are watching De-evolution in real time.
50 years ago, they had to take their photographs with film. 50 years ago, they had no means of live-streaming the entire flight. 50 years ago, email didn’t exist at all, so of course it didn’t break.
But yeah Microslop sucks absolute ass and it’s poetic justice that Outlook would fuck up like this.
Nah, the computers are evolving to become more resistant to meat sack interference.
The fact that this is becoming the most known quote from that mission is amazing on several good and bad ways.
Apollo 1:
Fire, I smell fire. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Roger Chaffee (presumed)
Outlook malfunctioning is extremely tame compared to the issues the early space program ran in to. Somehow this meme really rubs me the wrong way.
Comparing one of the worst disasters in NASA history to Micro$lop bugs is a bit silly, no?
i saw the Challenger shuttle explode in person… my elementary school used to have a recess to watch the shuttles every time they launched.
however, the idea of Windows in space is terrifying.
So is comparing a Microsoft bug to the highlight of the Apollo project and conveniently ignoring all the setbacks that both led up to and followed it.
I don't mind bashing Microsoft where warranted, but this just feels like cherry picking from a long list of technical and procedural failures.
Is that what the point of the meme was? You can read it as being about how much lower the stakes are, too.
I mean the whole outlook thing wasn't even on nasa devices they were personal devices...so the meme is just beating a dead horse of a joke that proves the ignorance of the person sharing it lol.
You've misunderstandood what a PCD is. They are mission devices, assigned by NASA, used to access mission data and communications. They are called "personal" because they are assigned to specific astronauts rather than shared equipment. They didn't bring their own laptops from home. That's why they were receiving tech support from NASA to address Micro$lop's buggy software.
Kind of ironic to be speaking about ignorance.
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