• xv9d
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    761 year ago

    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.

    • teft
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      271 year ago

      plus God only knows what on this side

      Moon’s haunted. 100%

    • @cybervseas
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      121 year ago

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

    • @Rolando
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      91 year ago
      "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

    • @HonoraryMancunian
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      91 year ago

      three billion

      Damn, the earth’s population really has exploded recently. I remember when it was 5-odd, and I’m not even old.