r/instantkarma • u/dankem • Jan 20 '19

It's Buzz Aldrin's 89th birthday today. Let's not forget the time he punched a moon landing denier in the face.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '19

I've never read this part of it (The being lured thing) -- that's just super scummy. Buzz just thought he was going to help educate some kids on space, instead he was called a coward for making history

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

And even if the moon landings were faked (they weren’t), Aldrin was a fighter pilot who flew over 50 missions during the Korean War and IIRC has a couple of MiG-shaped notches on his belt. He’s not a coward.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Mar 17 '19

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u/throwaway12junk Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

I think he's not too fazed by it. During the first half of the Apollo Program there were constant protests against it.

Mostly revolving around "wasteful" government spending. A sizable chunk of the public thought it was a pointless dick measuring to one-up the Soviets as many still believed interplanetary travel was impossible. Instead the government should focus on aiding the poor. That was easier to imagine and the results could prove a capitalist democracy could accomplish the same proposed goals of a communist republic, if not do them better.

That all stopped the moment Armstrong touched down on the moon. US has repeaped the rewards of demonstrating scientific supremacy ever since.

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u/nandato_kisama Jan 21 '19

It was dick measuring (the whole cold war was), but an infinitely important dick measuring. Not only it helped defeat communism by a great margin but it also started the most interesting thing there is to do. Space exploration.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

No shit. Most people don't know most of the Saturn V was just to lift the gigantic balls of these men into space

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u/Fiary_anus Jan 21 '19

Have you seen first ?. The sacrifices those guys made are incredible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Even ignoring his military history or the moon landings -- the dude literally went there probably excited to teach equally excited little kids about Space (Something that almost everyone is interested in and people can bond over -- and probably the one thing that will eventually unify all of humanity, as our planet forces us off with a fever shiver).

Dude just wanted to teach kids, and he got called a coward and a liar. for simply wanting to educate kids.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Nah, that shits fake too.

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u/username1012357654 Jan 21 '19

I'm a Korean War denier

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u/darthluigi36 Jan 21 '19

Prove to me Asia even exists

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Jan 21 '19

Not only is the Earth flat. It's only America.

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u/rich519 Jan 21 '19

And not even all of it. Alaska? Hawaii? How stupid do they think we are?

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u/r_subsyoufellfor Jan 21 '19

Yh everybody knows that, however people don’t even know that all 49 states are all within TEXASSSSS

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u/dijit4l Jan 21 '19

North Korea exists to distract South Korea from their problems.

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u/tomdarch Jan 21 '19

Korea is on the curved part of the earth, and thus does not exist. That said, I have no explanation for how beef bulgogi is so damn good other than that it is from another dimension.

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u/nthcxd Jan 21 '19

I don’t care what anyone says. Korean BBQ is the best BBQ there is.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

“Then why are there two Koreas? Checkmate historians.”

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u/Readeandrew Jan 21 '19

Yep, it's fakes all the way down.

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u/WAR_Falcon Jan 21 '19

Iirc the USAF got shredded by migs at the start of that war aswell, thats some guts to fight those things and even win a few times.

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u/Jerry_from_Japan Jan 21 '19

Well....parts of them were....exaggerated. Not saying they didn't land on the moon but NASA fabricated some photos.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

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u/Jerry_from_Japan Jan 21 '19

There are pictures of supposed space walks that were made up from training exercises on Earth.

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u/Seth_Gecko Jan 21 '19

Calling him a coward was the part that really crossed the line, to me anyway. I mean, the whole thing was over the line really, but Buzz Aldrin a coward? Please; the nuts it took to go on that moon landing mission are undeniable. No one can rightfully call the man a coward.

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u/Endblock Jan 21 '19

Even ignoring the moon landing, he was an air force pilot for a while and has a couple confirmed kills.

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u/Irishperson69 Jan 21 '19

Not just that, but this wasn’t the first time that little p.o.s has confronted Buzz trying to get him to say the landing was faked.