saviorsloth - Slashdot User

Comment A small step for historical accuracy (Score 1) 231

by saviorsloth on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:53AM (#50150889) Attached to: Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit

I'm glad their promotional material used what Armstrong actually said, "One small step for *a* man..." rather than what people heard over the buggy comm-link that dropped the word "a".

Growing up, it always bothered me that "man" without an article and "mankind" meant the same thing, and I was so happy when that guy discovered the audio signal of the word "a" in that famous transmission, which Armstrong always insisted he had said.

First Dynamically Balancing Biped Robot 155

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @10:49PM from the mister-rossum-on-line-1 dept.

damg writes "Anybots, which is three guys led by Trevor Blackwell, has developed the first robot that walks like we do, by dynamically balancing itself rather than being pre-programmed for walking like Asimo. The video shows the robot walking and being pushed by another 'bully' robot to demonstrate that it can't easily be pushed over."

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