Why We Can't Solve Big Problems

Re:Why We Can't Solve Big Problems by mcguire on Thursday October 25, 2012 @06:54PM (#4699987)

109:43:16 Aldrin: Beautiful view!

109:43:18 Armstrong: Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here.

109:43:24 Aldrin: Magnificent desolation. (Long Pause)

-- http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html

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Re:Why We Can't Solve Big Problems by sopooneo on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:31PM (#4700117)

Thank you. So during that long pause Aldrin was soaking up the scenery and thereby gaining "aesthetic bliss"? If that is the case, "smuggled" just seems a strange word choice. If that's not it, I guess I'm just being dense because I don't get it.

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Re:Why We Can't Solve Big Problems by jpontin on Saturday October 27, 2012 @03:41PM (#4707011)

I really just meant: that aesthetic bliss was a fairly unlikely emotion for an Air Force pilot and MIT-trained PhD in astronautics to bring aboard the Lunar Module and bring out on the surface of the Moon. Hence, "smuggled".

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