There is no way in hell that these dudes are only 40 years old in this video. Also, isn't 40 a little bit old to be getting sent on a mission like that? Buzz is easily in his early-mid 50's.
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Their faces says it all. Are those the faces of National Heroes, or the faces of men who are losing their soul at that very minute for perpetuating the lie?
Figure the average officer is 22 when they graduate college. They go through 2 years if training to fly a jet. They're 24 when they're just barely able to be a wingman. After 4 more years they're a captain (at 28) to be competent. Another 4 years (at 32) they're a major and a flight lead for a small group of planes if they've stayed in the same airframe. Mid 40's seems about right to be one of the best pilots in the world, and capable of flying more that "just a jet". Being a pilot isn't like being a ground soldier, they tend to get better with age.
These guys weren't just flying though. They were out on foot on the god damned moon. A 40 year old body isn't in the worst shape but isn't exactly prime either.. meh,, maybe they figured if they didn't come back they already got their use out of them so why waste a young kid when you could use them for another 20 years.
Walking is much easier than flying. Its not like they ran 3 marathons up there.
Walking the beach in sneakers is a bitch when you're 22, these dudes were on the moon in fuckin space suits at the age of 40.
Lmao! Dude I'm 40, ~20 years military service, still active duty. Knee replacement, 3 foot fusions, 4 shoulder surgeries. Degenerative disk disease in neck and back and I run half marathons, do tough mudders, hike, and shit like that and im busted as fuck. 40 isn't the end of life.
If you're 22 can have a hard time walking in sand you need to work out more.
Hey, I'm 40 too, with all the bells and whistles. I'm not saying I couldn't take a hike on the moon, I just don't think either one of us should be the first round draft pick. What I am saying is that those dudes in this video look older than that. If I was out and met that version of Buzz Aldren at a bar I would think he was 10-15 years older than I am. I have no theories, something just seems off.
Sure they looked old, but they were all beasts. These aren't your average people, they were legit physical and mental beasts.
well they just got back right ? also they dont have enough wrinkles and fidget too much to be 50s so ya prolly legiut
Look at Buzz. that mf look old.
John Glenn got shot into orbit in his 70s. That was in the early 2000s or something. Also, people looked much older back then, especially nerds from the countryside (NASA, silicon valley). 30-year olds who look like youths are a late-20th-century-thing. This might be a psychosomatic effect of manchildkind.
Astronauts were mature and achieved fighter pilots, selected for their stable and statesmanly background (in a manner of speaking: turbo-white turbo-tradmales). That takes a while to grow.
"people looked much older back then"... I don't buy that. It wasn't that long ago. I'm 40. No way Buzz is younger than I am in that video.
We are not talking about the same period, perhaps? I was talking about NASA footage from around 1970.