StoneBear 
@stonebear2@hachyderm.io
Recovering American in the Netherlands. Queer, universalist, antifa, filker, once and future technical journalist, trying to fix the world one tiny bit at a time. Music and cooking are love. Trying my hand at music promotion (Planning a concert in NL? Hit me up). Originally joined Mastodon in November 2022 BN.
hachyderm.io
Fifty-seven years ago tonight. 400,000 people worked for a decade to put two sets of bootprints somewhere other than here... and the world was never the same.
'You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”'
-- Edgar Mitchell, LM pilot, Apollo 14, quoted in People (magazine), 8 Apr 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzeFNEv150
#space #Apollo11 #moon #MoonLanding #OverviewEffect
