I had this experience up in Burlington, VT once - a bunch of home hobbyist astronomers had set up their telescopes on the street and were inviting people to take a look at astronomical bodies (moon included). The feeling of being able to see that level of detail with your own eyes is indescribable and it definitely reignited a sense of awe and wonder at space. Loads of towns around the world have similar groups that do public viewings - highly recommend it if you ever have a chance.

There's very few times in life where you realize you picked the absolute PERFECT time to take one too many bong rips: the first time you watch The Wall; the first time you hear Dark Side of the Moon; literally anything that has anything to do with, or is in fact, Zootopia; and this shit.
God bless you, Ant, god bless you.

Missed the moon by that much.

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It is incredible. I'm not sure how well they'll manage an aerodynamic approach to a moon landing, but they've surprised me before! 🤯

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Speaking of a little feast, I'm indulging on a chocolate *bite* Moon Pie as we talk in carefully chosen and arranged letters of the alphabet. Mmmmm...

Earth orbit, of course! A version may also be made to go to the moon or mars.

Oh yes I take ITER as good news, but it still leaves us 20 - 40 years from a... well I wanted to write a commercial fusion plant, however that might be a trifle optimistic.

Lets say we are at best 20-40 years from a functional prototype of a commercialy viable plant.

ITER is very much a test, any way you bend it. DEMO is waiting for ITERs outcome. Of course ITER will work, tokamaks have operated since the 1960s, that is like claiming a rocket will almost certainly fly. Yet we still stand in awe when it does.

It took 50 years from Einsteins nearly blind-guess prediction of a physical phenomenon to fission power plants. 50 years from the Orvilles hops to jet passenger planes. 58 years from Ciolkovskys crazy drawings to a man in space. In my grandfathers lifetime we went from horse-drawn carriages to the SR-71.
In my lifetime we have gone from landing on the moon to almost maybe landing there again some time.

We are slowing down or the going is getting more difficult.

Didn't he do sound on the Apollo "moon landing" sets as well?

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Christ, what a fucking petulant child.

Someone on 4chan posted this:

"You're the nation that won WW2. You put a man on the moon and invented the Internet. Now you have to be told not to drink bleach. What the hell happened to you people?"

The answer that came back: "Republicans".