QotD: Nerd pride
"I am -- and ever will be -- a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow."
-- Neil Armstrong, in a 2000 speech quoted today in the New Scientist tribute Neil Armstrong: First moon walker and cool-headed nerd.
Adieu, proud nerd.
Other Armstrong links (why, yes, I do plan to add more):
• NASA looks back at that "one small step," 40 years later -- with video, audio, and other links
• Wikipedia's Moon landing page -- with information about human-occupied and other moon landings to date
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• John Scalzi: Neil Armstrong and futures past -- an essay about our glorious former future in space
• Snopes.com: Good luck, Mr Gorsky -- fact or faux?
• Roz Kaveney: Endymion (for Neil Armstrong) -- a poem; the Moon mourns her first man
• Cat Faber: Neil Armstrong (Wink At The Moon) -- a song about his legacy; lyrics and music and mp3
• Knit your own Neil -- (en français) thanks for the link to
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-- Neil Armstrong, in a 2000 speech quoted today in the New Scientist tribute Neil Armstrong: First moon walker and cool-headed nerd.
Adieu, proud nerd.
Other Armstrong links (why, yes, I do plan to add more):
• NASA looks back at that "one small step," 40 years later -- with video, audio, and other links
• Wikipedia's Moon landing page -- with information about human-occupied and other moon landings to date
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•
• John Scalzi: Neil Armstrong and futures past -- an essay about our glorious former future in space
• Snopes.com: Good luck, Mr Gorsky -- fact or faux?
• Roz Kaveney: Endymion (for Neil Armstrong) -- a poem; the Moon mourns her first man
• Cat Faber: Neil Armstrong (Wink At The Moon) -- a song about his legacy; lyrics and music and mp3
• Knit your own Neil -- (en français) thanks for the link to
muninnhuginn
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This entry is cross-posted from www.dreamwidth.org, where there are
comments. Comment where ye will.