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user-inactivated  ·  3244 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIH: July 20, 1969- An amazing, humanity-changing event took place and nobody cares any more.

I think we'll remember Armstrong when we've forgotten everyone else from the first five thousand years of recorded human history.





user-inactivated  ·  3244 days ago  ·  link  ·  
user-inactivated  ·  3243 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    But when the Bulletin asked its readers in 1970 to name the first man on the moon, the guy who said, "One giant step for man ... ," 70 percent of Philadelphians didn't know.

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literally in an article about ignorance