# That's one small step for fighting stupidity.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970 "2002-09-11T14:31:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/1 "2002-09-11T14:31:38Z")
Go Buzz [go](http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-aldrinsep10.story).
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> Beverly Hills police said they are investigating a complaint that Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin struck a man in the face Monday after the man asked Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he had been to the moon.
😃
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### Author:  [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/2 "2002-09-11T14:39:07Z")
Damn straight, Buzz. Damn straight.
[hijack]
We need a stand up and applause smilie.
[/hijack]
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/3 "2002-09-11T14:51:41Z")
Don’t mess wit’ da man!
😃
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/4 "2002-09-11T15:22:56Z")
[Here’s a more detailed story](http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/266434%7Coddlyenough%7C09-11-2002::10:06%7Creuters.html). Go Bu-uzz! Go Bu-uzz!
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/5 "2002-09-11T17:13:34Z")
Damn. The guy’s been bugging Buzz for years. Buzz shoulda beat him senseless.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/6 "2002-09-11T20:37:17Z")
_ **–WHAP–** _
“To da moon, Aldrin!”
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/7 "2002-09-11T21:28:27Z")
“To infinity and beyond!”
[doing the cabbage patch]
Go Bu-uzz, go Bu-uzz, it’s your birthday, on a Friday, on the moo-oon, you were there-ere…
[end cabbage patch now]
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### Author:  [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/8 "2002-09-11T23:15:07Z")
Sorry, I started a thread before seeing this one.
I don’t support violence as a solution but I’ve gotta back Buzz on this one. HBs (hoax believers) are the epitome of what we try to stamp out here at SDMB. Folks who know little more than a few buzzwords have no concept of how incredibly difficult it would be to actually fake the moon landings to the degree the available evidence shows.
## Buzz, we salute you.
“Look out! They’re ruffled!” Buzz Aldrin abord the Corvair spacecraft
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### Author:  [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/9 "2002-09-12T00:43:25Z")
I have nothing to add besides “yay, Buzz!” except to relate that he once stopped at the airport business where I worked in HS, and I got to watch him take off in a single-engine jet plane. It was spiffy. [/totally unwarranted pride]
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### Author:  [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/10 "2002-09-12T01:04:52Z")
I’ll just add to the chorus. Carry on, Buzz!
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### Author:  [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/11 "2002-09-12T11:12:47Z")
Remember **seethruart** from about a year back? Maybe we should arrange an introduction.
Yay Buzz!
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### Author:  [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/12 "2002-09-12T12:01:57Z")
Yet another blow struck in the fight against ignorance. 🙂
He may be 72 years old, but he’s still got it.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/13 "2002-09-21T11:24:41Z")
No Charges to Be Filed Against Buzz!!! That’s right! Buzz got’s [no worries](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/20/aldrin.charges.reut/index.html)!😃
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> Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file a misdemeanor battery charge against the 72-year-old ex-astronaut, who said he was defending himself and his stepdaughter when he clocked 37-year-old Bart Winfield Sibrel outside a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9.
🙂 😃 😛 🆒
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> The district attorney’s office decided not to file charges because Sibrel sustained no visible injury and did not seek medical attention, and because Aldrin had no previous criminal record, she said.
:wally
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-one-small-step-for-fighting-stupidity/127970/14 "2002-09-21T12:18:59Z")
YEAH! Whoohoo!!