Post #1588731
2026-04-12 07:19 UTC
@therealahall What I think is so fantastic about this mission is that it felt very immediately inspiring.
Like, I'll probably never circle the moon myself, despite being into space since I was a little kid. I'm alright with that.
But I'm also not just living vicariously through other people, NASA astronauts whose lives matter more than mine or anything like that.
The vibe of that crew was not that they mattered and we didn't. Inclusion means ALL of us. That we're all beautiful, that we ALL matter, and that my little space stories matter, and so do the babies in the NICU, and the people who tighten bolts on the spacecraft, and it's everyone on the planet, not any one country.
Because we're all here on this shining rock, and that we're living through all this crap and still reaching for beauty, that MATTERS.
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@valentine@flickering.style 2026-04-12 07:21
@therealahall I think we've all developed this psychological carapace of believing deep down that nothing matters, as a way of reigning in the ten years or so of trauma that All This Stuff has caused. That's, well, it's PTSD. Maybe even a form of cultural CPTSD. And the awe is like our ecstasy therapy.
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@therealahall@gamerstavern.online 2026-04-12 11:03
@valentine My one “regret in life” is that I won’t be here to experience the future of space travel. I’ve been drawn to space since being a child and I know I’ll also never get to go to space, it has a romantic quality to it for me.