• xv9d@kbin.social
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      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.

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

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        "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

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    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.