WASHINGTON: Famed US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, has died following complications from cardiovascular surgery, his family said Saturday. He was 82.
Armstrong underwent cardiac bypass surgery earlier this month after doctors found blockages in his coronary arteries.
Praising Armstrong as a "reluctant American hero," his family said they were heartbroken and in a heartfelt tribute noted that the space pioneer had "served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut."
"While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around the world to work hard to make their dreams come true, to be willing to explore and push the limits, and to selflessly serve a cause greater than themselves," they said in a statement.
Armstrong at a House Science, Space and Technology committee hearing on "NASA Human Spaceflight Past, Present and Future: Where Do We Go From Here?" in Washington September 22, 2011. - REUTERS
Armstrong and fellow Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of awed television viewers worldwide.
His first words upon stepping on the lunar surface have since been etched in history: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
An estimated 500 million people watched the grainy black and white broadcast that showed Armstrong, clad in a white space suit, climb down the lunar module's ladder onto the Moon's desolate surface.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, it was also Armstrong who had notified mission control that the module had made a successful landing. "Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed."
But the lunar pioneer, who was decorated by 17 countries and received a slew of US honors, was never comfortable with his worldwide fame, shying away from the limelight.
Armstrong even stopped signing memorabilia after learning his autographs were being sold at exorbitant prices.
This undated image obtained from NASA shows US astronaut Neil Armstrong - the first person to set foot on the moon. - AFP PHOTO/NASA
Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930, Armstrong had an early fascination with aircraft and worked at a nearby airport when he was a teenager.
He took flying lessons at the age of 15 and received his pilot's license on his 16th birthday. A US Navy aviator, he flew 78 missions in the Korean War.
He studied Aeronautical Engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, and later earned a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California.
After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined NASA's predecessor agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in 1955.
He served as an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and later NASA over the next 17 years.
As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, he flew on many pioneering high-speed aircraft, eventually flying over 200 different models, including helicopters, gliders, jets and rockets.
He reached astronaut status in 1962, and was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, during which he performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space.
After retiring from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati for nearly a decade and served on the boards of several companies, including Lear Jet, United Airlines and Marathon Oil.
Armstrong also served as deputy associate administrator for aeronautics at NASA headquarters, coordinating and managing the space agency's aeronautics research and technology work.
His family said they had a simple request to people in memory of Armstrong's life.
"Honour his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink," it said.
A very strange count down is going on at a website called “illuminati order” and is to end September 9th 2012 at 13:23:33
. No one on YT who has posted about this knows what it is counting down to, yet is causing a small stir on the internet. Feel free to leave a comment of what you may think this is about. The first page shows a disk with “Academia Omni LVX” and what seems to be a count down and a puzzle combination.
Two *UFOs*above Olympics London.
A new analysis, shows not one but two "UFOs"hovering above the Olympics during the opening ceremony.
The second object, which at first I believed was a helicopter, does not have anti-collision lights or flashing strobes either, this proves the object is unidentified also.
ufos london openings cermony 2012 Two UFOs above Olympics London 2012 Confirmed
This puts to rest the theory that the Olympic UFO was the Goodyear blimp, apart from the fact that the Blimp was indeed grounded during the opening ceremony, no anti-collision lights or strobes are visible on the unknown object.
So now we have two confirmed UFOs at the opening of the London Olympics. (UFO or Unidentified Flying Object, does not necessarily mean Extraterrestrial in origin, it just means the object is unidentified).
Could this be a test run for a possible false flag using black-op, back engineered craft, or possibly bluebeam tech. One thing is for sure, they will be back, so keep watching.
Watch video: Two Olympic UFOs Confirmed 2012
The Foreign Legion is today known as an elite military unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills but also on its strong esprit de corps. As its men come from different countries with different cultures, this is a widely accepted solution to strengthen them enough to work as a team. Consequently, training is often described as not only physically challenging, but due to a number of reasons, extremely stressful psychologically.
The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, so the Foreign Legion was created to allow the government a way around this restriction. The purpose of the Foreign Legion was to remove disruptive elements from society and put them to use fighting the enemies of France. Recruits included failed revolutionaries from the rest of Europe, soldiers from the disbanded foreign regiments, and troublemakers in general, both foreign and French. Algeria was designated as the Foreign Legion's home. The army was formed so the government could enforce its rule in Algeria.
Historically, the American film industry portrayed the Foreign Legion as, in the words of Neil Tweedie of The Daily Telegraph, having "a reputation as a haven for cut-throats, crooks and sundry fugitives from justice" and also having many men escaping failed romances. Tweedie said that since the legion had asked few questions of its new recruits, it became "an ideal repository for the scum of the earth." As of 2008, according to Tweedie, the "image as a haven for ne’er-do-wells is largely out of date" since the legion now conducts extensive background checks via Interpol.
I don't know why god hates me so much? God has made life so hard on me, I don't know how much more I can take. I beg him, beg him to just give me a break but he just beats me down even harder he didn't give me any tools to make it in life, he put me hear defenseless and to get eaten alive by life. and I really want to do something with my life too, but he just didn't give me the tools. I really want to go schools and get a job and be normal but I can't do any of those things ( I won't get into why). He even takes the little good qualities that I have, only thing I ever had in my life was my looks to get me by. I never really had anything else, and I mean nothing much else. I feel like God gave everyone else a chance except me. I seriously feel like he's torturing me. I hate God so much I think he's the devil.
I'M tired to feel me as if I was never all right, I am tired to be times in front of the telephone to wait for the messages, I am tired of everything, I would want only to go away, and to forget me of all people that I know, would want to restart afresh
Considers the Christian doctrine, The Rapture, to be true and investigates what it considers to be signs and warnings of the truth and veracity of the Rapture doctrine, which seems to have first arisen in the 17th or 19th century.
Heartstrings (Hangul: 넌내게반했어, Romanized: Neon Naege Banhaesseo, literally: You've Fallen for Me, previously known as Festival and You're into Me) is a South Korean youthful melodrama about the main characters' love, friendship and dreams, set against the backdrop of an arts university.
This drama's main leads, Jung Yong Hwa and Park Shin Hye, were originally paired from SBS's2009 drama, You're Beautiful. Jung Yong Hwa's character inYou're Beautiful, Shin Woo, was involved in a one-sided love relationship with Park Shin Hye's character, Mi Nam. This pair never got together in You're Beautiful.
Summary
Lee Shin is a university student majoring in Western Music. He is also the vocalist and guitarist of the band "The Stupid." Shin is known for his good looks, cocky personality, and strong passion for music. Everyone sees him as a cold-hearted and distant, but he has a soft side inside him hidden away. He lacks interest in anything unrelated to music and has neither dreams nor plans for the future. He initially likes Jung Yoon Soo, a dance professor at the university, but this all changes when he meets Lee Gyu Won.
Lee Gyu Won is a bright and outgoing student who was born into a prestigious family and is majoring in Traditional Korean Music, her instrument is the gayageum. Gyu Won's grandfather, Lee Dong Gun, is one of the top 3 traditional musicians of his age and his biggest wish is to see his granddaughter become a traditional music prodigy. Trying to live up to her grandfather's expectations, Gyu Won immerses herself in practice and becomes a university student who knows nothing much outside of her studies. As her friends are fans of "The Stupid", she was forced to go to the band's concert with them. There she saw Lee Shin performing live, and is immediately captivated by him.
Yeo Joon Hee, a bumbling, shy and ever hungry boy who doesn't act his age. He has a complete child-like personality, shaggy idiot by day, Stupid's lead drummer by night. During one of his shaggy phases during the day, he comes across University Princess and chairman's daughter, Han Hee Joo, who he immediately falls head over heels for, calling her his "Natasha." However, there are dark sides to Hee Joo's personality than his naïvety knows, and in the series, he fights between his ever-growing feelings for Hee Joo and helping his friends as she threatens their university lives.
The time when Lee Gyu Won decided to join the performance for the festival, every one sees her potential talent and this triggers Han Hee Joo's mother who plans together with Tae Joon, one of the school's administrators, to destroy Lee Gyu Won's and the Director's image for her to quit the upcoming festival in her fear that Lee Gyu Won might outshine her daughter Han Hee Joo.
Asserts that the War Scroll discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls contains prophecies that are being fulfilled today and that the War Scroll's prediction of an armageddon could be true.
Investigates the Giza Plateau of Egypt in connection with the eschaton, and in particular the Great Pyramid (notwithstanding the fact that, according to Lemesurier's The Great Pyramid Decoded (inter alia) it contains only one or two rough, painted, workmen's hieroglyphs in its topmost chamber, plus some carved hieroglyphs at its entrance that were carved by a 19-century German expedition).
Lets go back in time. To a period in AMERICAN history when real archaeologists existed not just puppets of the establishment. I want to talk about an article in a newspaper called The Phoenix Gazette that was printed on April 5th, 1909. A man named G. E. Kinkaid was an archaeologist that was traveling down the Colorado River. He noticed an opening in the Grand canyon some 1500 feet below the surface. This was a huge opening that could only be made by man or some type of advanced civilization. It was not very easily accessible and he had to climb down the cavern wall all those feet down. Once he finally got there, he noticed right away that there were chisel marks at the opening of this intelligently designed cave. This was proof that it had been inhabited before by people or something intelligent.
The passageway that Mr. Kinkaid had found led to an even bigger chamber that had multiple passage ways that spun off of it like the spokes of a wheel. The huge area that he had discovered had enough room to accommodate more than 50,000 people. It was very massive in scale. He found a wide variety of tools forged from copper, and pottery/plates that had a glaze on them and very intricate designs. He shipped all of these artifacts to the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Kinkaid had been working for the Smithsonian Institute for over 10 years and he never spoke of something so far fetched or outlandish before. In other words not only did he not have a reason to lie, but he shipped the proof to the Smithsonian Institute.
Immediately the Smithsonian Institute upon receiving these artifacts quickly dispatched a crew to do more exploring of the area. Mr. Kinkaid stayed as well to continue his work. The Smithsonian Institute sent a man named Prof. S. A. Jordan. Supposedly they found much more, proof that this civilization made their own tools on the spot and even had similar statues to those of Ancient Tibet. There was also proof that these ancient people smelted their own ores. Some of the ores that were found cannot be identified. They also found many vases and other liquid containers made of gold and other precious metals. Strewn very strange throughout the floor was a rock called "cats eye", or "tigers eye" which doesn't have great value, however it is very strange to look at, and is even considered good luck to this day. On the walls were very strange hieroglyphs. Some resemble animals and people as we know them today, others resemble prehistoric creatures that have long been dead. This alone could prove that this civilization existed during the time of these prehistoric animals found on the walls of the chambers. Mummies were also found that were mummified similar to the mummies of ancient Egypt.
The last thing I feel is important to mention is that a chamber was discovered that smelled very strong like a poisonous smell. Mr. Kinkaid describes it as being a very snaky smell. Did the ancients know how to create a poison or a trap? It is hard to say, one thing is for sure, they didn't go into that room.
Those are all the important points that are in the article from The Phoenix Gazette in 1909. After this article it was never spoken of again. No one knows what really transpired, or the exact details of what was found. Did the Smithsonian cover up these things because they knew it would cause all of the history books to be re-written. The Smithsonian Institute believes that all ancient cultures although similar in some cases (like with the pyramids, and megalithic structures) they did not have contact with one another. Do you really think that is true? Do you think there is a missing piece to the puzzle? I think Mr. Kinkaid believed he found it.
There is still no official record of this incident from the Smithsonian Institute. Many skeptics claim that this story was created because of "yellow journalism" which is the means in which newspapers used to generate sales by sensationalizing stories that they came across. The Arizona Gazette that inherited the archives from this article have no comment. The actual article can no longer be found in the archive in the Phoenix library. What do you think?
Investigating reports that Nostradamus's son, Cesar, may be the actual author of what the History Channel calls a 'lost book' of prophecies discovered in 1994.
This episode proposes that extraterrestrials may have contacted various humans throughout history, such as Moses and Joan of Arc, to help guide and inspire them to achieve great things; or to pass on important messages for humanity; such as a supposed binary message given to a UFO-contactee during the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident who believes it is the coordinates to a mythical island called Hy-Brazil.
This episode surmises that aliens may have caused various disasters, as depicted in the Bible and other texts, or even tried to warn man of them; such as Noah of the Great Flood. Also proposed is that some disasters ushered changes in human evolution and that our leaps in technology over the centuries were achieved with alien help.