"A Man"<< The Light Behind the Lightroom | Main A software publisher couldn't pay enough for an endorsement like this. Supposedly, Neil Armstrong muffed his famous line, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The astronaut was supposed to say "a man," and he thought that he had done so. BBC reports that "an analysis of the audio files downloaded from NASA's website using GoldWave, a $45 (£24) audio editing program, indicates that the word was spoken but not recorded." He spoke "a" too fast. I've known about Neil Armstrong's presumed "a" flub since grade school, but I hadn't heard of GoldWave until today. Software developers don't get marketing opportunities like this one, very often. GoldWave's software may change recorded history. The PR folks should break open the champagne and break out the press releases. |
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