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[–] FlyingSquid 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always felt kind of bad for that dude.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From what I understand, he didn't really feel that bad about not being on the moon, he wrote in Carrying the Fire

“I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon. I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God only knows what on this side. I feel this powerfully ― not as fear or loneliness ― but as awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation. I like the feeling. Outside my window I can see stars — and that is all. Where I know the moon to be, there is simply a black void; the moon’s presence is defined solely by the absence of stars. To compare the sensation with something terrestrial, perhaps being alone in a skiff in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a pitch-black night would most nearly approximate my situation.”

To me, that sounds like an amazing experience and one that very few people have had. I personally would probably really enjoy that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

plus God only knows what on this side

Moon's haunted. 100%

[–] cybervseas 12 points 1 year ago

Oof I feel emotions reading this. I'm not sure which emotions, though. Thank you for sharing it.

[–] HonoraryMancunian 9 points 1 year ago

three billion

Damn, the earth's population really has exploded recently. I remember when it was 5-odd, and I'm not even old.

[–] Rolando 9 points 1 year ago
"All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon."

-Floyd

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

There are definitely no alien chicks down here. Not any single ones, at least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: In the movie Youth in Revolt there is a scene where the main characters buy a camper. The person they buy it from is played by Michael Collins.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am Collins (20th century boys)