Politically incorrect?

[BillyMac]

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (Neil Armstrong, July 21, 1969)

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (Neil Armstrong, July 21, 1969)

He left out wimmen.

Neil Armstrong shoulda been horse-whipped for saying that!

Horse-whipped, I tell ya!

Whipped with a horse!




Stoopid monkey thread.....

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (Neil Armstrong, July 21, 1969)

An interesting bit of trivia is that he actually flubbed what he originally was going to say. He meant to say "That's one small step for a man..."

I guess he got a little caught up with the whole being the first person to step on the moon and all that.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Welpe

An interesting bit of trivia is that he actually flubbed what he originally was going to say. He meant to say "That's one small step for a man...". I guess he got a little caught up with the whole being the first person to step on the moon and all that.

Speaking the line, he accidentally dropped the "a", from his remark, rendering the phrase a contradiction (as man in such use is synonymous with mankind). Armstrong later said he "would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it was not said – although it might actually have been." It has since been claimed that acoustic analysis of the recording reveals the presence of the missing "a". A digital audio analysis conducted by Peter Shann Ford, an Australia-based computer programmer, claims that Armstrong did, in fact, say "a man", but the "a" was inaudible due to the limitations of communications technology of the time. Ford and James R. Hansen, Armstrong's authorized biographer, presented these findings to Armstrong and NASA representatives, who conducted their own analysis. The article by Ford, however, is published on Ford's own web site rather than in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and linguists David Beaver and Mark Liberman at Language Log were skeptical of Ford's claims. Armstrong has expressed his preference that written quotations include the "a" in parentheses.