# Where can I see the Buzz Aldrin video?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 11, 2002, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962 "2002-09-11T13:15:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/1 "2002-09-11T13:15:01Z")
Yesterday on the way to work I heard that astronaut Buzz Aldrin punched a flat-Earther who was harrassing him. (Sorry, “trying to get an interview”.) Normally the news would broadcast such footage on the following morning’s news; but today being the 11th, the news only has live coverage of the 9/11 memorial. (It’s a good thing nothing else is happening today, else they wouldn’t be able to show it!)
Is this footage on the web yet?
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### Author:  [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/2 "2002-09-11T14:15:58Z")
[www.abcnews.com](http://www.abcnews.com) has it. You will have to register to see it though. Also www.badastronomy .com has a lively form on the topic.
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/3 "2002-09-11T21:24:22Z")
Ok, I feel better already. My MIL (not exactly my first source for accurate news) told me this version of the story- that someone had punched out Buzz Aldrin. I got really pissed. The guy is as old as the hills, and what wussy man hits a senior citizen?
But now, when the boxing glove is on the other foot, I think it’s hilarious. Not only is this flat-earther an undereducated idiot, he got his ass kicked by a 70-something!
😃
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/4 "2002-09-11T22:13:39Z")
Just a minor nitpick, but the loon in question isn’t a flat-earther, he’s an Apollo-hoaxer. AFAIK, he believes the Earth in round and orbits around the sun, but he doesn’t believe that mankind has ever walked on the moon.
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/5 "2002-09-12T13:18:02Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Miller \*
> \*\*Just a minor nitpick, but the loon in question isn’t a flat-earther, he’s an Apollo-hoaxer. AFAIK, he believes the Earth in round and orbits around the sun, but he doesn’t believe that mankind has ever walked on the moon. \*\*
But that’s just silly. We KNOW men went to the moon, because if they didn’t, how would we get all those photos of [alien bases on the moon](http://www.marsearthconnection.com/mbevidence.html)? Think, people! Some folks are just plain kooks.
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/6 "2002-09-12T15:39:17Z")
Apparently, this guy has been pestering Buzz and Neil Armstrong, stalking them and trying to get them to admit in public that the moon landing was a hoax. Buzz finally got fed up and socked him. I don’t advocate violence, but…
Yay, Buzz!
Although a smack in the head isn’t usually much good for the persistently delusional.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/7 "2002-09-12T15:45:12Z")
So I get to work, and a mountain of programming falls into my lap. No time to see the video here! I got my _Meaning of Life_ DVD yesterday, so I didn’t see “Battling Buzz” last night either.
Looking forward to it though.
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### Author:  [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/8 "2002-09-12T17:33:20Z")
Well, neither link is working for me. I don’t even see a link where it talks about registering at the abc site–maybe it’s at the [real.com](http://real.com) site it keeps trying to shuttle me to, but it keeps timing out on me. :mad:
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/9 "2002-09-12T23:35:33Z")
Conveniently I have a subscription to Realplayer which I’ve been meaning to cancel ever since I got the free trial - but it’s $10/mo, and I use it once or twice a week, so maybe it is useful.
I just watched the clip. Buzz is leaving the hotel when the moon-hoaxer and his crew of cameramen start hounding him, calling him a cheat, a coward, and a liar. Buzz keeps trying to walk away, and the moon-hoaxer keeps getting in front of him, even after Buzz asks the hotel doorman to call the police.
Eventually, Buzz is cornered, the man keeps jabbing a Bible in his face, and Buzz pops him one. The man immediately starts asking his cameramen if they got it on tape – looks to me like he was deliberately trying to provoke the kind Mr Aldrin.
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### Author:  [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/10 "2002-09-12T23:59:07Z")
I can’t even find confirmation on the [Real.com](http://Real.com) site that such as thing as “RealOne SuperPass” even _exists_, so thanks for the play-by-play, **lno**.
[sub]Opinions expressed by Bart Sibrel are not necessarily those of the rest of the residents of Nashville, TN.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Tyrrell\_McAllister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyrrell_McAllister)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-see-the-buzz-aldrin-video/127962/11 "2002-09-13T01:18:26Z")
The Bad Astronomer has [this](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-buzzkill-video.realvideo) link to the movie at the LA Times. It worked for me without asking me to sign up for any kind of special “pass”.