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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wonder what Buzz Lightyear would be called if the first two men in the moon were named Nick Adams and John Abbott or something normal.

ETA: And if they different names, would we have gotten "Blast Hardcheese?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Puts tinfoil hair on

They were specifically selected to send secret messages to the aliens using their names.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

tinfoil hair

Does that provide better coverage than a hat?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not really, I just feel like it looks more natural.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And that message was...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe it was “!su evas ,su pleh ,namdam a si poolF“

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

do you think god stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The first two men to walk on the moon were named Niel and Edwin. The next two were named Charles and Alan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. is much more commonly known as Buzz Aldrin, and Buzz Lightyear is named after him.

Obviously the answer to buddy's question is "whoever was the second guy on the moon" though.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But if you asked most people to name the first person on the moon they’d say “Buzz Armstrong”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What are you talking about??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And they would be wrong. Niel Armstrong didn't seem to carry a nickname; he was an aviator in the US Navy, who usually end up with callsigns, but I'm struggling to find what his was. Google "assistant" is hallucinating; it's saying that Neil Armstrong's navy callsign was "WARL" and links to a Wikipedia page about the oceanographic research ship RV Neil Armstrong(AGOR-27) whose maritime radio callsign is WARL. I know of no personal nickname or callsign of his.

Aldrin, on the other hand...I'm just now learning this. I assumed he got the nickname Buzz as a USAF pilot callsign, but no. His sister Faye mispronounced "brother" as "buzzer" which was shortened to "Buzz." And he legally changed his name to "Buzz Aldrin" in 1988. It was still a nickname during the Apollo program.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, most people are wrong about a lot of things. But the zeitgeist of “Buzz” and “Armstrong” on the moon likely informed the naming conventions of fictional characters.