R.i.p. Neil Armstrong

[Norseman82]

Neil Armstrong, 82, the first man to walk on the moon, has died:

[url="http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/25/13478643-astronaut-neil-armstrong-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82?chromedomain=usnews"]http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/25/13478643-astronaut-neil-armstrong-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82?chromedomain=usnews[/url]

[Groo the Wanderer]

[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] [/size][/font][/color][b]"High Flight"[/b]

[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] My eager craft through footless halls of air....[/size][/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] Where never lark, or even eagle flew —[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] The high untrespassed sanctity of space,[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3] - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.[/size][/font][/color]

[homeschoolmom]

[BG45]

Rest in peace.

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[Nihil Obstat]

Oh, how sad.

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The man who  took one small step for mankind,  took  one giant leap for the heavens today
RIP Neil Armstrong

[Winchester]

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[r2Dtoo]

[url="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57500396-1/luxury-watchmaker-turns-hand-toward-retro-games/"]http://news.cnet.com...rd-retro-games/[/url]


[b] [quote]Luxury watchmaker turns hand toward retro games[/b]

Shooting stars with some cash to burn should check out this set of ridiculously expensive Pac-Man and Space Invaders timepieces featuring authentic moon dust and fragments of Apollo 11


A gentleman's timepiece should never be too exuberant, but Crave feels compelled to give a curious nod to the ultra-expensive Pac-Man and Space Invaders watches by Swiss timepiece crafter [url="http://www.romainjerome.ch"]RJ-Romain Jerome[/url]. Each dial features a miniature replica design of the arcade classics set in a pixelated appearance.
Perhaps understated from first glance, these geeky watches (waterproof to 98 feet) with rubber straps contain some real stellar inspirations. For starters, each steel timepiece features real fragments of the Apollo 11 lunar module, and the designer took it a step further by modeling the four joints of the watch after lunar landing module legs. To top off the extravagance, the back of the watches contain low-oxidation silver mixed with real moon rocks, specially patterned like the lunar surface.

In regards to pricing, it's simply out of this world: expect to shell out $17,900 for any of these super limited edition self-winding tickers. When we say limited, we mean it; the Swiss watchmaker offers the Space Invaders version in shades of blue, red, green, purple and yellow - at a super low run limited to eight pieces for each color; the Pac-Man run comes in four variations (each limited to twenty pieces) as seen above.
In a rather unusual coincidence, during the course of writing this blog post, I found out that Apollo 11 astronaut and first man on the moon [url="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57500383-76/first-man-on-moon-neil-armstrong-has-died/"]Neil Armstrong died today[/url] -- may he rest in peace.

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[Lisa]

At Purdue:
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