At 9:32 AM, 50 years ago today, one of the greatest milestones in human history took place: Apollo 11 launched and headed for the Moon. Happy 50th anniversary to this iconic event and to the 3 astronauts who had the honor of being the ones to participate in this moment. (Although RIP to Neil Armstrong who died a few years ago)
They can suck the darkest part of their own taint. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (I feel bad though cos I had to look up the third member of the crew) went there. End of story. Its only a pity we stopped at the moon.
“That guy wasn’t an astronaut, he was a TV comedian! And he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife!”
One of the greatest philosophers of this current decade once had this to say: "B*tches be curved, but the Earth is flat." Hard to argue with that.
It's an incredible milestone to have achieved. We enabled ourselves to transcend our world's domain and make it to another sphere in the sky. We were able to literally go where no one had gone before. It's a star-spangled testament to the human race's exploratory drive. "I look up at the Moon and wonder, when will we be going back, and who will that be?" Jim Lovell, NASA commander
And the planned follow up program was going to be a manned flyby to Venus. But LBJ, the MIC, and his dirty little war prevented all that.
My favorite sci fi show was Space 1999. Where we had a large moon base called Alpha. Twenty years ago. Until the moon blasted out of the Earth's orbit. Then Martin Landau saved the day. Fucking bullshit that never became reality. And yes, we landed twelve people on the moon. I have a place you can go and another place you can kiss if you disagree.
The Flat Earth Society is growing in numbers! According to them, they have "members from all across the globe".
A decade ago, I was privileged to be part of the Boy Scout Troop that performed color guard for an event where Neil Armstrong was a special guest and everybody in the troop got to meet him. It was very brief but it was freakin' awesome getting to shake his hand. After all, he was the first man alive to ever set foot on a planetary body other than Earth. It really can't be emphasized enough how incredible it is that we got men on the moon with what would be considered antiquated technology by modern standards, computers that took up entire vast rooms that had less computational power than advanced graphing calculators we use in schools today, let alone the smartphones we almost all carry around in our pockets. It may seem trivial and a waste of god knows how much money, energy, and resources given we only went a handful of times in the 60s/70s and to date still haven't gone back, but the significance is in the achievement. Few things in the history of human civilization have ever united our kind as one, truly, and even in the middle of the Cold War, the moon landing is probably one of the most significant.
