One final picture. Glad I was able to watch live as the Falcon Heavy lifted off from Florida taking the Roadster and Starman on their forever journey through our galaxy and beyond.
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Asgardia sounds like a wonderful utopian society. But, we all know, utopia does not and can not exist. Human nature just will not permit it. This is why you must join now, to ensure there is intelligence within this freakish new community. Here is the Asgardian Constitution for your reading pleasure and I encourage you to question each chapter's validity as a tool for change. We, the rightful citizens of Earth, shall not let this warped thinking continue unobstructed. That is all.
Asgardia sounds like a wonderful utopian society. But, we all know, utopia does not and can not exist. Human nature just will not permit it. This is why you must join now, to ensure there is intelligence within this freakish new community. Here is the Asgardian Constitution for your reading pleasure and I encourage you to question each chapter's validity as a tool for change. We, the rightful citizens of Earth, shall not let this warped thinking continue unobstructed. That is all.
Today is the day that we mark the historic landing of man on the moon. Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module and placed footprints on a foreign celestial body. A very riveting time for our nation and the world as a whole. I applaud NASA for replaying the tapes from those history-making days in real-time, I have been listening to them and have found much interesting material. No doubt that Buzz and Neil were very excited about the important and improbable feat that they were to accomplish on this day.
As I have been listening to the real-time feed that I mentioned above, I have also been following along with the transcript that is posted of the communications between Houston and the Apollo spacecraft. Though at times the 40-year-old live feed and the transcript do not match up time wise, it is still fun to read along as the crew goes about flipping switches and pressing buttons to be able to land on the moon. As for historic points on the trascript, I have found a few. The separation of the lunar module from the command module occurs on page 318, the landing occurs on page 337, and the first footprint by Neil occurs on page 382.
I encourage everyone to pause for a moment today to reflect upon the masterful and unlikely events of today and send a message to Congress that we need to return to the moon and go to Mars and beyond. It is our destiny as humans to seek out what is beyond our grasp and to explore what is beyond our reach. Godspeed Neil and Buzz and all of our astronauts.