5 Atrocious "Pseudo-Science" Cliches to Throw into a Black Hole

[SorryImPsychic]

Why would anyone want to produce a list of cliches?

To throw them down into a Black Hole - you know as in dispose of them forever.

[Mulder]

To throw them down into a Black Hole - you know as in dispose of them forever.

Or to fill a blog, or a newspaper column or all those empty hours on satellite channels, maybe ...

[Trinoc]

There's one sentence that has become a cliché and makes me cringe every time I hear it, and I have a futile hope that today might be the last time it is ever repeated ...

"It's one small step for man ..."

[Croydon Bob]

"It's one small step for man ..."

... because women weren't invited?



(and it was "That's one small step for man...")

[SorryImPsychic]

... and I have a futile hope that today might be the last time it is ever repeated ...

I think Neil Armstrong feels the same way

....Sure, he had been awake for 24 hours before his epoch-marking pronouncement, battling lunar stage fright in front of the world's largest audience ever, and was mulling over the fact that while putting on his bulky space suit he had broken the circuit breaker for the switch to start the Eagle's engine for ascent.

But he knew what he said. "There must be an 'a', " Mr. Armstrong says of the event in the 1986 book Chariots for Apollo. "I rehearsed it that way. I meant it that way. And I'm sure I said it that way."

Then the Grumman representative, Tommy Attridge, put on a commemorative 45-rpm recording of the flight. No matter what speed they played it at, there was no "a".

According to the authors, Mr. Armstrong sighed, "Damn, I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?"2

[Matt]

Heard a recent analysis that claims a brief blip in the signal masked the "a" and that Neil actually did say it.

[SorryImPsychic]

Heard a recent analysis that claims a brief blip in the signal masked the "a" and that Neil actually did say it.

I'm sure Armstrong would like to have this confirmed. But the phrase will still go down in history as " one small step for man...


(Don't look now Trinoc but there is a man taking small steps.)

[Trinoc]

(and it was "That's one small step for man...")

Damn! I hate it so much I can't even quote it correctly!

[Trinoc]

Heard a recent analysis that claims a brief blip in the signal masked the "a" and that Neil actually did say it.

Well, they didn't have digital delay lines in those days (not that there would be much reason to use them unless they were afriad he would say "Fucking hell, I'm on the Moon!") ... so in the absence of some sort of time travel anomaly there is no space for an "a" ... the actual words spoken are "one small step forman".

[lost thought]

Creation "science", darwanist, an evolutionist, Un-Intelligent design(er) and complexity

[Mojo]

Scientism.

Pseudoskeptic.