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     WALKING ON THE MOON
Year One Tournament of Champions Champ, August 2009 Champion It is pretty amazing how humans are able to escape Earth , go to the moon and walk on it. It is a symbol of national pride for Americans but also a beacon of hope for all humans because it shows us that no task is too large and no obstacle too high to overcome. "One small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind" Niel Armstrong
Nominated by Love of the Awesome
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Walking on the Moon was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Chewbacca  The Couch Dress  Moustache Balaclava  Giant Nintendo Controller  Jesus Christ  Little Superstar  Meat Suitcase  Sasquatch  Nikola Tesla  General Lee 01  Crop Circles  Mock Apple Pie  El Chupacabra  BigDog Robot  Robocop on a Unicorn  Roller Derby  Freerunning  Dwight K. Schrute  The Hamburger Bed  Wingsuit Base Jumping Wingsuit Base Jumping  Bob Ross  Aurora Borealis  Flying Spaghetti Monster  Beer Maids  Hedgehogs  WAKE n' BACON  Zombies  Rollerman  Paul Bunyan  Space Invader Invasion  Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator  The Brick Testament  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Captain James T. Kirk  The Man with No Name  Banksy  Library of Congress  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Literal Video Versions  Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee  Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Hunter S. Thompson  Extent of the Universe  Dante Bucci  Burj Dubai  Marilyn Manson  Mark Twain Mark Twain  Daft Punk  Danny Way Jumps the Great Wall  Emperor Norton  Silly Putty  Afro Samurai  Jesus Riding A Dinosaur  The Lost City of Atlantis  The Motherland Calls  Jackalopes  Capes  Tim and Eric Awesome Show  Georgia Guidestones  Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide  Los Pikadientes De Caborca  Wienermobile  Les Claypool Les Claypool  Holy Hand Grenade  Shreddin Walking on the Moon was voted LESS AWESOME than: Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
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   DANNY WAY JUMPS THE GREAT WALL
Professional Skateboarder Danny Way notched himself up the Awesome Scale (July 9, 2005) with his Mega Ramp Jump over the Great Wall of China. ...to bad the Mongols didn't have a mega ramp!
Nominated by xyop96
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If this was the song by The Police I'd vote for it, but literally moon walking? Too geeky a nomination by far!
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Just pretend it's the Police, then.
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Your sense of awesome is on the moon right now.
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Geeky...once again, I don't get you Yorky
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You don't get me? It's simple: if it's the kind of thing I imagine the spotty kids who used to sit at the front of the class would like, it's not awesome.
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Yeah, but most of us ARE those spotty kids who sat at the front of the class. Hence, Awesome.
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And, human beings walking on another FREAKING WORLD is pretty f***ing Awesome. Geeky or not, It takes stones to cram yourself in the computing equivalent of a four function calculator and hurl yourself to another celestial body!
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If they'd opened up the selection process I'm sure there wouldn've been no shortage of volunteers.
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OK, so strapping yourself to a pillar of flame, onboard the largest non-nuclear explosive device ever built, tearing yourself free from the planet's gravity and taking steps on a surface further away than anyone has been before isn't awesome?
And as for volunteers, it's hard to find volunteers who have the skills required to pilot a lunar module or re-entry vehicle using nothing but a slide-rule, brains and guts. Totally awesome. reply
It's difficult to find volunteers who are qualified to be a f***ing crossing guard, let alone fly to another world.
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Look, lets not slag volunteers in general; as someone who relied on volunteers to put on our provincial Special Olympics Games, I can vouchsafe the fact that volunteers are awesome.
But I doubt I could find any with the neccessary skillz to fly a Saturn 5. reply
That wasn't really meant to disparage volunteers as a concept. My point was that, judging from Youtube, every redneck with a video camera would volunteer to do ridiculous things, but that doesn't mean that they would, 1. be qualified or 2. actually do it when the chips were down.
When you and two of your closest buddies are sitting on top of 6 million pounds of rocket fuel. Steaming, seething, ready to explode at a moment's notice, you might have second thoughts about taking that trip. Especially knowing that the computers that run everything onboard are substantially less complicated than even the most basic cellular phone. Mankind's greatest endeavour. End of story. I may have nominated Mark Twain, but I'm going to go ahead and call Walking on the Moon the single most Awesome entrant of the month.
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Obviously no-one just has the skills to fly a lunar lander and safely put it on the moon: that comes with training. What they would need to look for in volunteers is the aptitude to absorb that training and the medical and physical fitness and mental robustness to survive the mission and be able to think straight while under considerable mental and physical strain.
Needless to say, I'd do it. In my world where I'm the model of normality everyone would jump at the chance, hence my comment about there being no shortage of volunteers. reply
And yet a couple messages ago you thought walking on the moon was 'too geeky' for you to vote for it.. yet now, you are saying you would volunteer, and give your life to the cause of space exploration... you're getting hard to follow yorky.
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I'm not being inconsistent at all: being asked to take part in a space mission, especially a Moon landing, would be totally awesome - nominating "Walking on the Moon" (but not the record by The Police), however, is geeky.
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yah thad be cool if we really went to the moon!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_landing_hoax_conspiracy_theories
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I find it interesting that most people that believe the moon landings were a hoax cite photographic evidence to prove we didn't go, but typically no little to absolutely nothing about photography. Which leads me to my conclusion. If you do not believe we went to the moon, then you are f***ing retarded, and I'm sending Buz Aldrin to your house! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU
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With moon landings, atlantis, nostradamas, georgia guidestones and jesus riding t-rex, expect the crazies this month. I'm not sure what will be bigger this month; the conspiracy theory/new age bloc or the music bloc.
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I hadn't noticed just how wacky many of these candidates were until you pointed it out. This should be a fun month!
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A month that makes Emperor Norton look sane. We're in trouble!
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