• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    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?”

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          18 days ago

          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.

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            18 days 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.

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        18 days 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.

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    18 days 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

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    18 days 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