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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

He was an alien on the moon

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

Ron Zertnert

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Buzz Aldrin's name backwards is: Nird Lazzub

Leonard Nimoy's name backwards is: Yo, min! Dr. Ano El?

Benedict Cumberbatch's name backward is: HG Wells, Cthulhu Balthazor

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

@fossilesque gnorts are gnome jorts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gnorts Mra, inertgalactic space explorer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The entire name is "Gnorts mr. anedl Alien"

Anedl is something related to AI

DC comics, aliens, the moon and AI are all related

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

We are all Gnorts on this blessed day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

gnort gort mfs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Was... :-(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

We can be heroes. https://i.imgur.com/hdT6mQm.mp4

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Alan Tudyk has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's also an anagram for "O girl, transmen!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why so complicated? Neil A. = Alien

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because this is not about being easy, it's about being funny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

-Jesus Christ

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

But Neil Armstrongs backwards is “Sgnorts Mr Alien”.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Idk how but you clearly doctored the results. The output has more energy in the form of extra punctuation than the input does. Something else was done other than a simple reflection. Please provide precise method of backwarding used.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's one small step for gnorts

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's "Gnorts Mr Anedl Alien", to you!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

What are you talking about??

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

tinfoil hair

Does that provide better coverage than a hat?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

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

And that message was...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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