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[alexseanchai]

Neil Armstrong's dead.

I'm not sure which is sadder: that the first man on the moon is gone or that in nearly forty years, we haven't been back.

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[neotoma]

Woe!

And yes, why haven't we been back?

[onyxlynx]

Both are sad.

(I've heard a few excuses theories over the years.)

[jadehunter]

The real sad thing was that #WhoisNeilArmstrong was trending on Twitter. Like, wtf?

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, somebody's blog post, paraphrased: setting, toy store, dunno how long ago. Other shoppers, grandpa and grandkid, kid's maybe ten. Grandpa picks up an Apollo spaceship toy. Grandpa: "Look, this is the ship we went to the moon in!" Grandkid: "We went to the moon?"

I weep.

[lonespark]

We, um, used to build bridges and stuff, too.

Presumably kids today still want to be astronauts, and walk on other planets and such...