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   Justice22 said, 9 months ago

   So small as everyone is….
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   masterskrain said, 9 months ago

   I hope everyone will realize that even though we might think we are some great big deal, we are actually a Very, VERY small part of the Cosmos.
   It was actually put into words best by Douglas Adams in the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
   “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 93 Million miles is an utterly insignificant little Blue-green Planet, who’s ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea!”
   Farewell, Neil Armstrong, and Fare Well!
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   ruff said, 9 months ago

   @masterskrain

   Don’t panic…
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   Baleine said, 9 months ago

   Thanks to the shift from great achievement to great stupidity in the form of current politics and reality TV we are even smaller than before.
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   walruscarver2000 said, 9 months ago

   Nice to see man remains constant. Columbus discovered America in 1492, but no serious attempt was made at colonization till 1620. Think it will take another 120+ years before we do anything about the moon? Cause from what I see of our “stewardship” of the earth, I’m not sure we’ve got that much time.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 9 months ago

   Type 0 civilizations are just that. They may cause Type 1 changes but they do it accidentally and without long term thought.
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   dtroutma said, 9 months ago

   A man of courage, one of many men and women, who advanced “Man”. While the adage “The don’t make them like that any more”, may be only partly true, it is sadly, too true.
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   corzak said, 9 months ago

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   also . . . Portuguese round Africa 1498, reach India; within 22 years have trading forts stretching from East Africa to Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia & China; meanwhile 1522 Magellan circles the globe. 1542 entire Amazon River traveled. Colony in Japan, 1544. By the mid 1500s Spanish colonies from north Mexico to Chile; all of North American coast mapped; most of southern US from FL to CA explored; many south Pacific Islands discovered, and almost certainly Australia. By 1575 yearly galleon trips between Philippines and Acapulco.
   
   So we’re definitely behind schedule!
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   MortyForTyrant said, 9 months ago

   I worry that, one day soon, all Astronauts that went to the moon will be dead. They weren’t young when they went up there, they all had long careers before NASA that made them the ideal crewmen they were. Forty years of not returning to the moon is bad, but losing the last man who did so without replacement would be worse for our collective conscience as humans…
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    walruscarver2000 said, 9 months ago

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    The reference is to “serious” colonization. Many exploratory points were established, most notably in Central and South Amercia by the gold seeking Spanish, but the idea was :get in get the gold (and glory) and get gone. Permanent significant residence were rare just as they still are in places like northern Canada or Alaska.
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    Breeana said, 9 months ago

    ARMSTRONG SERVICE: A private service is planned Friday in Cincinnati for astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. flags at half-staff. Armstrong, 82, died Saturday.
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    corzak said, 9 months ago

    What was most admirable about him was his humility. He believed that he was one astronaut among many, in an occupation that one among hundreds that were required to put a man on the moon. He refused to indulge in the ‘cult of celebrity’ when so many people were necessary to make it happen . . .
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    walruscarver2000 said, 9 months ago

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    I’d argue the point if I thought you knew what you were talking about.
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    Eryx said, 9 months ago

    Our species only seems so small because it is.
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    Tigger said, 9 months ago

    My dad was working as an RCA Contractor for NASA from 1957 to 1970, he was stationed around the world to track the Mercury to Apollo 17 Missions .
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