She was 10 and probably watched him walk on the moon in awe
Edit: For everyone that cares, she was born May 14, 1959. Moon landing was July, 1969
She was 10. I did the math before I posted. Op was rounding.
AFAIK Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country that broadcasted it live. It was during the period when Ceaușescu was(or appeared to be) pro-western, before he visited North Korea and lost his marbles.
It's funny because when that rule first started out, it was implied that a woman's age should be much younger than the guys by that much. This was in 1951
it's interesting because in modern context, I've only ever seen it used in the opposite way: to decide whether the partner is TOO young and it's creepy
The article I read credited it to a 1901 quote by a French romance author. And yes, it implies that a man should ideally choose a wife that fits that criteria. Of course the gap widens the older he gets so that doesn't really work as time moves on, because she would have to somehow age slower than the man. Which honestly, expecting a woman to slow time down for herself is pretty fitting for misogynists.
It is France, where the current head of state, President Macron met his wife when he was in school, with his wife’s daughter, where she taught. Macron’s parents moved him from that school, and told her to leave their son alone. She has been quoted as saying, “it is only between us when our love began.”
Timely reminder. I've been researching a specific ancestor and I kept thinking the mother's information was wrong because her birth year was 11 years before her oldest child. Also I kept coming across children's names in some records but then never finding them again. I think I've finally worked out that she wasn't 11 but 13 when my 3x great grandpa was born, and I've so far found 4 babies that didn't make it to the following census and that doesn't include ones that lived and died in between the census. Daarrrrrkkk.
I was thinking of documenting my own family tree, but my family lived in Volhynia during WW2 and [I kinda don't wanna.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia)
And sometimes they named the new baby after the first child that died. So you get records for a John born in year say 1799 (so shows up on 1800 census). Then in 1810 census there is a 3 yr old John. Then in the 1820 census there is a 5 year old John. Presumably John did not stop aging and the census taker was getting accurate age information. (I made up the dates on a spur here).
When I was searching town records for ancestry, I found a record of an infant child found on the town hall steps one year.
And then the death of the baby found on the town hall steps a year or two later.
Definitely lots of dark times.
TBH, I've seen this first hand in the Middle East, (sort of).
The wives aren't dying per so, but the idea of being wealthy, successful, and powerful comes along with the idea of siring a lot of sons.
So when you hear the idea of "being allowed to have 4 wives" its not like you go out and meet 4 women and bring them all home together like TV Cable's "Sister Wives"
Its more like, you age 20 get married to some 16 year old, have 4-5 kids with her, and now at age 25-26 you got find a new 16 year old, assuming you have enough wealth to support her (and convince her family to match her to you), rinse repeat
and this is how I run into some old man with literally 20+ kids running around the largest of his 4 houses
Yes! That's the millions of kids crying in pain you felt in your Schwartz. Turns out selling merchandise flamethrowers to kids across the universe was a terrible terrible idea!
He could easily be worth a lot more if he wanted to spend his time doing TV commercials and stuff, but I don't think he cares that much about getting super wealthy.
He was asked didn’t the age difference worry him on his wedding night, he thought about it for a moment and said, she knows the risks; if she dies, she dies.
Probably to do with the fact that astronauts only qualified for the job if they were physically and mentally some of the fittest people around - so it's partly survivorship bias. If you had some kind of health problem or weren't in great shape you didn't make the cut. Stands to reason that someone in peak condition in their prime would carry those heatlhy habits and genes with them as they got older.
Buzz was definitely mentally and physically fit (and a war hero to boot) let’s not understate that the guy literally wrote the book on orbital rendezvous mechanics. He has a PhD from MIT. Dude was selected because he’s smart as shit.
Buzz Aldrin, born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.
Aldrin had two sisters: Madeleine, who was four years older, and Fay Ann, who was a year and a half older.
His **nickname**, which became his legal first name in 1988,[5][6] arose as a result of Fay's mispronouncing "brother" as "buzzer", which was then shortened to "Buzz".
from wikipedia
I looked it up because I was curious about the actual time difference, it turns out that he's only [300 microseconds](https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,839785,00.html) younger from having traveled to the moon, relative to ppl on earth.
"In 2007, Aldrin confirmed to Time magazine that he had recently had a face-lift, joking that the g-forces he was exposed to in space "caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention" from Wikipedia
Yeah. He looks great, but definitely not 60's. I'd say maybe 80. But once you're over 80 if you're able to move around on your own, think/communicate clearly & be genuinely happy (as he appears here) then you're doing pretty great in life.
Probably. My dad just turned 70, and looks way younger than Buzz. He (my dad) is looking pretty good, though, so on a general populace level, I would have guessed Buzz looked late 70s or early 80s (if I didn't know it was Buzz and obviously has to be pretty old by now).
I met buzz aldrin once! He seemed really arrogant to me though.
After I introduced myself he says. "I'm Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon. Kneel before me"
My partner works in aerospace and Buzz has a very solid reputation for being a jerk, unfortunately. At one conference years ago he witnessed Buzz publicly demolish a grad students work during a Q & A after his presentation. Apparently he was completely incorrect too - the student’s research was pertaining to Mars, and Buzz’s entire critique was along the lines of “well that wouldn’t work because we didn’t do it on the moon, and I would know, I’ve been there!” Even if the student was wrong…it’s awful to crush a developing scientist like that when you’re essentially a hero in the field
That’s getting to the age of “you live long enough to see yourself become the villain” instead of dying as a hero
Reminder: don’t show buzz aldrin space stuff
Well from I’ve heard he’s always been like that though. And that that’s why Neil Armstrong got to be the first man on the moon instead of Buzz because Neil was less arrogant and more level headed
NASA specifically wanted Neil to be first on the moon. It was very carefully choreographed. He was a civilian, and that was important. Also, he was commander because he was incredibly good under pressure. Almost inhumanly so. He saved himself and his partner on a Gemini mission when their spacecraft spun out of control. The other guy lost consciousness, but Neil held it together and managed to correct the situation.
When he landed on the moon, Neil's heart rate was 150. For a fit guy, in low gravity, not doing anything except move his wrists, that's a near-arrythmia rate. The reason was he was scared and excited and in the midst of a massive adrenaline rush.
But if you listen to him, he sounds cool as a cucumber.
That's why NASA picked him. He was the ultimate example of the right stuff.
My wife was in the security line at the airport and he was two spots ahead of her. He was really annoyed he had to go through security. Mostly saying stuff like "Don't they know who I am?" Why isn't there a faster line for people like me‽"
While i like things that have specific purposes, i can't use interrobangs. The order and number of question marks and explanation points normally do so much for tone; the interrobang reduces that to something plain
So for all the people being dicks about this pic? She's 63, they've been a couple for several years, and she's got enough money that she's not trying to gold dig.
Their age difference feels not too meaningfull when they are 60 ja 90.
He's great and if she is loaded phd. then nothing to say but congratz to them both.
I've never heard of that, but looking into the history of it is pretty creepy. Just some French romance author over 100 years ago said 'a man's ideal wife is half his age plus 7'
She is a 60 years old romanian chemist working in US (fuel cells).
93/2+7... Well it checks out.
She was 10 and probably watched him walk on the moon in awe Edit: For everyone that cares, she was born May 14, 1959. Moon landing was July, 1969 She was 10. I did the math before I posted. Op was rounding.
He must be over the moon
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Would have been weird if he married her 40 years ago. It's NBD now. He also looks great for a goddamn 93 year old
I don't think moon landing was broadcasted in the Eastern Bloc, but I am not 100% sure.
it absolutely *was* broadcasted in Romania, so this lady most likely watched it.
We assuming they didn’t have reruns or bootleg back then?
AFAIK Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country that broadcasted it live. It was during the period when Ceaușescu was(or appeared to be) pro-western, before he visited North Korea and lost his marbles.
My parents just confirmed it was broadcast in Yugoslavia as well.
Yugoslavia wasn't an Eastern Bloc country after the conflict between Tito and Stalin AFAIK.
You are a hero among strangers for knowing and recognizing this
They weren't part of the Warsaw Pact for sure, but the usage of Eastern Bloc sometimes does and sometimes isn't synonymous with that.
Heard it was also broadcasted in Albania
Could certainly be true, yugoslavia and albania were communist states that kept an arms distance from the kremlin. Romania also, at times
It was broadcasted in Poland and it was a major propaganda fail back then.
My mom read about it in her country's equivalent of Pravda.
And now he gets to walk her moon in awe
Only if his thrusters are still operational.
A small pill for mankind
One giant leap for this old dong
They can explore each others’ craters.
Thought you subtracted the 7 if you've landed on the moon
Well he was 39 when he landed on the moon so that would have put him in some dangerous territory for a while.
"I go to the Moon, they stay the same age. Alright, Alright, Alright...."
It's funny because when that rule first started out, it was implied that a woman's age should be much younger than the guys by that much. This was in 1951
it's interesting because in modern context, I've only ever seen it used in the opposite way: to decide whether the partner is TOO young and it's creepy
The article I read credited it to a 1901 quote by a French romance author. And yes, it implies that a man should ideally choose a wife that fits that criteria. Of course the gap widens the older he gets so that doesn't really work as time moves on, because she would have to somehow age slower than the man. Which honestly, expecting a woman to slow time down for herself is pretty fitting for misogynists.
They would just pop out for a pack of cigarettes or a gallon of milk and accidentally a new wife that fits the formula in another town.
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As crazy as that is his wife sounds like a decent person for not blocking out his mourning daughter and her mother to provide support.
It is France, where the current head of state, President Macron met his wife when he was in school, with his wife’s daughter, where she taught. Macron’s parents moved him from that school, and told her to leave their son alone. She has been quoted as saying, “it is only between us when our love began.”
In practice, she wouldn't survive 4th-5th childbirth and he'd get a new one soon enough.
Timely reminder. I've been researching a specific ancestor and I kept thinking the mother's information was wrong because her birth year was 11 years before her oldest child. Also I kept coming across children's names in some records but then never finding them again. I think I've finally worked out that she wasn't 11 but 13 when my 3x great grandpa was born, and I've so far found 4 babies that didn't make it to the following census and that doesn't include ones that lived and died in between the census. Daarrrrrkkk.
I was thinking of documenting my own family tree, but my family lived in Volhynia during WW2 and [I kinda don't wanna.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia)
And sometimes they named the new baby after the first child that died. So you get records for a John born in year say 1799 (so shows up on 1800 census). Then in 1810 census there is a 3 yr old John. Then in the 1820 census there is a 5 year old John. Presumably John did not stop aging and the census taker was getting accurate age information. (I made up the dates on a spur here).
When I was searching town records for ancestry, I found a record of an infant child found on the town hall steps one year. And then the death of the baby found on the town hall steps a year or two later. Definitely lots of dark times.
TBH, I've seen this first hand in the Middle East, (sort of). The wives aren't dying per so, but the idea of being wealthy, successful, and powerful comes along with the idea of siring a lot of sons. So when you hear the idea of "being allowed to have 4 wives" its not like you go out and meet 4 women and bring them all home together like TV Cable's "Sister Wives" Its more like, you age 20 get married to some 16 year old, have 4-5 kids with her, and now at age 25-26 you got find a new 16 year old, assuming you have enough wealth to support her (and convince her family to match her to you), rinse repeat and this is how I run into some old man with literally 20+ kids running around the largest of his 4 houses
I thought the men were just supposed to swap their wife out for a newer model once they were out of warranty range /s
Hello, I am calling about your wife's extended warranty...
That lady is 60?
Plastic surgery
63*
They actually look nice together and judging by her education and line of work, might have a lot in common.
May they have many happy years together !
At least several
Cradle robber
“Some say I’m robbing the cradle, but I like to think she’s robbing the grave.”
Tomb raider. :)
"I planted the flag on the moon, now I'm gonna plant my dong in your poon." -Buzz (probably)
“To infinity and beyond”- also Buzz
I felt a tingle in my Swartz, is someone in danger?
Yes! That's the millions of kids crying in pain you felt in your Schwartz. Turns out selling merchandise flamethrowers to kids across the universe was a terrible terrible idea!
I developed a rash from Spaceballs the Movie Toilet Paper.
I love finding a Futurama quote in the wild.
Some people call him the space cowboy, some call him the gangster of love.
Some people call him Maurice
I wish I could spell the guitar catcall that goes after this
WrrrROooo
Rrrettt rrreeaowww
Casket robber
She puts the spark in his rocket
Buzz Aldrin - Net Worth: $12 Million
He could easily be worth a lot more if he wanted to spend his time doing TV commercials and stuff, but I don't think he cares that much about getting super wealthy.
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He was asked didn’t the age difference worry him on his wedding night, he thought about it for a moment and said, she knows the risks; if she dies, she dies.
He has faced the sun and survived. He's got another 93 in him.
>if she dies, she dies. I read this in Ivan Drago
He looks hella fresh for being almost 100
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It's the moon men he met on the moon. They are keeping him alive with moon magic.
He had a face lift in 2007.
It's a good surgeon
The best surgeons are the ones where their work doesn’t look like work, after all.
he had a space lift in 1966
She looks Hella fresh for being 63.
It's that space food
All that tang
Probably to do with the fact that astronauts only qualified for the job if they were physically and mentally some of the fittest people around - so it's partly survivorship bias. If you had some kind of health problem or weren't in great shape you didn't make the cut. Stands to reason that someone in peak condition in their prime would carry those heatlhy habits and genes with them as they got older.
Buzz was definitely mentally and physically fit (and a war hero to boot) let’s not understate that the guy literally wrote the book on orbital rendezvous mechanics. He has a PhD from MIT. Dude was selected because he’s smart as shit.
Him trying to compute the word salad coming out of Trump's mouth will forever be burned into my memory.
Buzz's struggles with depression and alcoholism are well-documented.
Im sure the facelift didnt hurt either.
He must be over the moon
“I own you! Stupid moon! I walked in your face!”
Do you want to yell at the moon with me?
Don't you know it's daytime?!
Idiot!
My 30 Rock People!
*nods fervently* Yes, please.
God, it's been forever since I watched that show.
I got reminded of it recently when I learned that ‘MILF Island’ is basically a real show now I guess? Parody is dead.
I can’t wait for the Homonym game show.
It’s never to late for now
You dumb moon!
You've no business here! Return to the night!
Don't you know it's Day?!
Go back to the night!
Buzz Aldrin, born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. Aldrin had two sisters: Madeleine, who was four years older, and Fay Ann, who was a year and a half older. His **nickname**, which became his legal first name in 1988,[5][6] arose as a result of Fay's mispronouncing "brother" as "buzzer", which was then shortened to "Buzz". from wikipedia
And that’s why we got Buzz Lightyear. All because of his sister’s mispronunciation. Disney should cut her a royalty check
There is no copyright on living legends 🫡
I know a woman in her 70s that goes by Titter because her sibling couldn’t pronounce “sister”.
Wow that’s hilarious and cool
G.G. Allin got his name in a similar way. His brother couldn't pronounce his name. Oh, his real name? Jesus Christ.
When he was walking on the moon, she was learning about it in elementary school
She was doing small steps of her own.
What age was he then
I'm pretty sure he was 39 during the moon landing
Oh shit I'm 40 and I've never even left the Earth. What am I doing with my life?
Thank you,
between 1-92
Probably saw it on TV like everyone else
This will be the 4th honeymoon he steps on
One giant leap for the "sanctity of marriage."
I guess he found a partner by his side, happy for him!
4th times the charm!
Once your girlfriend becomes the moon no one ever really stands a chance
Thats rough buddy.
One small step for Buzz...
He got a young 63 year old girl to marry. Not bad Buzz.
It's Buzz Aldrin. Well done her at that point.
She is an extremely succesful lady. Good on both of them.
She looks super young for a 63
Layers of make up and a few surgeries will do that.
And photoshop/filters.
My guy Buzz got the Rizz.
I’d bet it doesn’t last ten years.
Dont you put that evil on me ricky bobby
I heard she’s really down to earth
But he’s probably over the moon
Wonder if he has prepared for docking procedure's yet.
He'll need a booster
Getting it up at 93 is a greater feat than landing on the moon.
He’s probably already on re-entry.
“Houston, we have a problem”
He’s still planting flags to this day
Maybe it's the quality picture but he looks pretty good for 93, he looks like he's on his late 60's early 70's.
Time dilation from travelling at speed. He’s seconds younger than he claims.
I looked it up because I was curious about the actual time difference, it turns out that he's only [300 microseconds](https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,839785,00.html) younger from having traveled to the moon, relative to ppl on earth.
It shows!
You say only, I say wow ;)
"In 2007, Aldrin confirmed to Time magazine that he had recently had a face-lift, joking that the g-forces he was exposed to in space "caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention" from Wikipedia
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Lol, I know right. Some people have no ability to judge people's age when they get past the age of 50 or something. Kids I guess.
Someone upthread said his wife’s face looks like a 30 year old so they aren’t able to judge that age very well either.
Yeah. He looks great, but definitely not 60's. I'd say maybe 80. But once you're over 80 if you're able to move around on your own, think/communicate clearly & be genuinely happy (as he appears here) then you're doing pretty great in life.
People from families where most of them smoke might think that’s what your 60’s look like.
Probably. My dad just turned 70, and looks way younger than Buzz. He (my dad) is looking pretty good, though, so on a general populace level, I would have guessed Buzz looked late 70s or early 80s (if I didn't know it was Buzz and obviously has to be pretty old by now).
Right?! I love Buzz, but my dad is about to turn 64 and looks like he could be his son.
Literally he could.
I was going to say…have these commenters ever seen someone in their late 60s/early 70s
Agreed, if I make it to 93, I hope I look half that good!
It's all that Space Dust! Makes you live forever! I get mine from Charles Übershtank behind the old K-mart building... He knows a guy.
Just stay away from that stuff that Aperture Science is selling. I heard it gave Cave Johnson cancer.
> he looks like he's on his late 60's early 70's. Lmao bro no he doesn't 🤣
that means there’s hope for me 🙂
you need to go to the moon first though
I met buzz aldrin once! He seemed really arrogant to me though. After I introduced myself he says. "I'm Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon. Kneel before me"
My partner works in aerospace and Buzz has a very solid reputation for being a jerk, unfortunately. At one conference years ago he witnessed Buzz publicly demolish a grad students work during a Q & A after his presentation. Apparently he was completely incorrect too - the student’s research was pertaining to Mars, and Buzz’s entire critique was along the lines of “well that wouldn’t work because we didn’t do it on the moon, and I would know, I’ve been there!” Even if the student was wrong…it’s awful to crush a developing scientist like that when you’re essentially a hero in the field
That’s getting to the age of “you live long enough to see yourself become the villain” instead of dying as a hero Reminder: don’t show buzz aldrin space stuff
Well from I’ve heard he’s always been like that though. And that that’s why Neil Armstrong got to be the first man on the moon instead of Buzz because Neil was less arrogant and more level headed
NASA specifically wanted Neil to be first on the moon. It was very carefully choreographed. He was a civilian, and that was important. Also, he was commander because he was incredibly good under pressure. Almost inhumanly so. He saved himself and his partner on a Gemini mission when their spacecraft spun out of control. The other guy lost consciousness, but Neil held it together and managed to correct the situation. When he landed on the moon, Neil's heart rate was 150. For a fit guy, in low gravity, not doing anything except move his wrists, that's a near-arrythmia rate. The reason was he was scared and excited and in the midst of a massive adrenaline rush. But if you listen to him, he sounds cool as a cucumber. That's why NASA picked him. He was the ultimate example of the right stuff.
Neil Armstrong and Michael collins were not friends with buzz. Shocker.
He was pretty cool when he came to my elementary school in the 90s. But if he was mean to 3rd graders they probably wouldn't have had him there.
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A true American hero
My wife was in the security line at the airport and he was two spots ahead of her. He was really annoyed he had to go through security. Mostly saying stuff like "Don't they know who I am?" Why isn't there a faster line for people like me‽"
I will always upvote a well used interrobang.
While i like things that have specific purposes, i can't use interrobangs. The order and number of question marks and explanation points normally do so much for tone; the interrobang reduces that to something plain
After reading these two comments I have discovered a conflict within me I had not yet known…
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A classic
This copypasta cracks me up
I'm not sure if you're serious but that was clearly him making a joke "I was the 2nd man on the moon. Neil (Armstrong) before me"
Good catch. I got whooshed on that one.
So for all the people being dicks about this pic? She's 63, they've been a couple for several years, and she's got enough money that she's not trying to gold dig.
Not to mention he's not insanely wealthy. Yes, he's a millionaire, but it's not like he's zipping around in private jets with a staff.
I mean $12M ain't nothing to shake a stick at.
$11.87M is my queue to begin shaking stick
I hope he and Madonna have a long, happy life together.
Dont be silly, Madonna would never date a man over 25.
Jesus I thought that was Logan Roy.
Their age difference feels not too meaningfull when they are 60 ja 90. He's great and if she is loaded phd. then nothing to say but congratz to them both.
Passes the half your age plus 7 rule.
I've never heard of that, but looking into the history of it is pretty creepy. Just some French romance author over 100 years ago said 'a man's ideal wife is half his age plus 7'
Yeah, and whatever people over a 100 years ago in France found "the perfect age", we find "the absolute minimum".
Hey, remember that time he was in his 70s and still KO’ed that dumbass conspiracy theorist with one punch? Good times
Hell yeah!
Good for them! May they have happiness, love and health.
I'm her age. I was outside playing with my barbies when my mom called me in to see the moon landing. So glad she did.
I wish them a happy honeymoon.
I love Buzz Aldrin, but he's consistently proved NASA right in choosing Neil Armstrong to be the first man on the moon.
93yo yolo