"There is something disturbing about NASA slamming two spacecraft into the surface of the moon today. The results of the experiment will be interesting, there's no doubt about that: I'll be watching. But it's the methodology. It does not, I feel, show we humans up in the best cosmic light."
- Mark Vernon
I am reminded of the post I made some time back- "Please Don't Litter the Moon!"
"I feel a bit dazed that we have crashed a 29 Kg object painted garishly on all its sides (no disrespect to our national flag, but let's be objective, that is how it will look to a Martian) so that the Moon itself feels the impact of our presence, and we can claim a portion of the moon when they cut it up some time in the future.
Where is our imagination? Or, is this imagination?
This is like reading about some idiot with a gun, who while coasting along the South Seas, saw an inhabited island and shot and killed the defenceless natives for fun. I think he intended to stake a claim on the island on behalf of the Crown or something..."
It feels good to find that there is a dignified, yet powerful way to express something that I so messily and, I accept, hysterically shouted about.
Desist, Earthlings!
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- Mark Vernon
I am reminded of the post I made some time back- "Please Don't Litter the Moon!"
"I feel a bit dazed that we have crashed a 29 Kg object painted garishly on all its sides (no disrespect to our national flag, but let's be objective, that is how it will look to a Martian) so that the Moon itself feels the impact of our presence, and we can claim a portion of the moon when they cut it up some time in the future.
Where is our imagination? Or, is this imagination?
This is like reading about some idiot with a gun, who while coasting along the South Seas, saw an inhabited island and shot and killed the defenceless natives for fun. I think he intended to stake a claim on the island on behalf of the Crown or something..."
It feels good to find that there is a dignified, yet powerful way to express something that I so messily and, I accept, hysterically shouted about.
Desist, Earthlings!
via Nigeness.
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