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Edited on Thu Jul-22-04 04:05 PM by Heyo
As I watched Neil Armstrong on television.....
.. and Buzz ALdrin...
These guys are getting on in years, and eventually they will pass away.. and that will likely be before we have even close to matched their acheivements....
..they are the only humans alive who were THERE.. and actually stood there on the stark landscape of the moon and looked around.. soaked in every bit of it... the sensation... the sights....
.... those men of Apollo represent the entirety of our collective experience of being on the moon...(excluding those who watched from Earth)...
They are our collective memory of actually being there... and it deeply saddens me in a way I can't describe that soon there may be nobody left alive who remembers what it is like to actually STAND on the moon.. on another celestial body besides our earth....look at the stark clarity of the distant hills and curvature of the moon which you can see all the way to and past, because there is no air...
It saddens me that with all the bullshit going on in the world, we have lost our human spirit of adventure......people's minds are alseep.... that news stations cut away from history being made (re: Mars rovers) to talk about sniffing panties!!!!(Kobe Bryant case)
SHAME on CNN for that..... hang your heads in shame, you are responsible for the paralyzation of America...(yeah, I know it's not a word)
Wake up!!
If I were president, on my very *first day* I would completely dissolve the D.E.A. and put all that money into the space program instead...for starters.
I would create the option of a voluntary space tax, that people could choose to pay or not if they wanted to contribute to space exploration...
Nothing unified the world for even just a moment like the first moon landing...
Heyo
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