Nov
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2022
I Watched The Sun Rise At Midnight · 8:56am Nov 16th, 2022
I watched the sun rise at midnight.
I watched an impossible dawn.
I watched an explosion so far away it took half a minute for me to hear it and it still rattled my bones.
I watched as, for the first time, humanity reached a milestone on a quest to live on other worlds.
The launch of the Artemis I rocket, the first step of NASA's mission to colonize first the Moon, and then Mars, was successful, and I was there to see it, and it was... awe inspiring.
Humanity took another step today, and it's good to see it and know it.
Take care everyone. Be seeing you all around.
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Nyronus · 167 views
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#Artemis
#Space Travel
#Historic Moment
#I do genuinely think that
#billionaires living in dystopian space colonies aside
#doing space flight again iis tremendously important for the human race
#both in terms of morale and direction
#but also materially
#you cannot comprehend how many raw reasources there are in our solar system
#It's not post-scarcity
#but it gets us a decent whack of the way there
#It's also nice to have something good happen for once
#you know?
Also:
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I may have been having a little fun at the launch.
how cool :O
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LOL
When the humans finally contact your home and you can share the spaghetti
media.tenor.com/cCADMf95jDsAAAAM/alien-dance.gif
In all seriousness, that's really cool. I knew there were rumblings about a preliminary Mars expedition, but it's nice to see they're actually moving forward with it.