Would you rather have been a Beatle, or have walked on the moon?

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(is george flipping off the camera?)

Tripping off certainly

i forget which astronaut it was, but he did say that one look at earth from that perspective turned him into a pacifist.
it was like instant karma.

Self-promoting a small essay I wrote about the history of the first "Spaceship Earth photograph" and how it became a symbol of tech-hippie empowerment. Also includes Mad Men.

great stuff, Elvis!

I'm not convinced by these half-assed arguments that exploring the earth is somehow JUST LIKE exploring the moon gtfo with that shit

it's not just like, it's similar. just like being a bar band is similar to being a fucking Beatle.

would you rather be astronauts in space camp or in the beatles during germany?

I voted "Beatle" without even having to think about it but I do think there is a bigger difference between exploring another continent on the same planet and going to the moon than there is between playing in a bar band and playing in the Beatles.

I spent a month on a dutch trawler once i cant imagine the journey to the moon was any nicer an experience speaking practically, so gettin 5x the value from my bounce for a couple days meh not worth it

if they landed on some swingin planet with some alien babes, bourbon flowing in rivers, whip cream covered mountains, dr pepper falling as rain, sign me up. they left the earth's atmosphere, could not leave their tiny lil pod otherwise they'd die, then landed on a big desolate rock w/no atmosphere so they couldn't take off the cocoon-like spacesuits otherwise they'd die. sweetest part was being able to brag about it and get free grandslams at Denny's for 50 yrs afterwards.

Here's a crazy secret from the space program: The solution to providing air to people in environments where there is no air had been trivially obvious since the late 19th century, when it was called "deep sea diving." And Jacques Cousteau made it super-easy nearly 30 years before we landed someone on the moon.

Water won't penetrate if yr suit has a microscopic hole, whereas in space that's all yr air gone.

As I recall, they didn't use anything remotely resembling scuba technology for the space program. Pressurized air/oxygen would be so heavy they'd never get the capsule into orbit.

i forget which astronaut it was, but he did say that one look at earth from that perspective turned him into a pacifist.
it was like instant karma.

reading the wikis for the 12 guys who went up there, I was surprised that a couple of them are climate change deniers.

climate never changes inside that suit

wow the hippie logic on display in this thread

I feel like I've been such a hippie on this thread but on the other hand by picking beatles I'm denying the whole "space is the place" / "interstellar overdrive" / "space is deep" side of my imagination. but then it occurred to me that maybe I wasn't really that into space all of this time but maybe space was like a metaphor or for inner space man. woah, makes you think.

Many xp, I'm not saying the astronauts used scuba technology; I'm saying "How do we give people air where there's no air?" was not some previously unimaginable engineering problem that humans had never tackled before.

Water won't penetrate if yr suit has a microscopic hole, whereas in space that's all yr air gone.

Depends how deep you are and what kind of suit. You gain one atomsphere every 33 feet.

Aso at least two astronauts, including Gene Cernan, have survived having their suits torn while in vacuum. A microscopic hole in a pressure suit, depending on location, depth and your distance from the spacecraft, is far from a death sentence.

You people watch too many movies.

In other words, the problem had already been solved long before, but that solution was not useful in space, so it had to be solved all over again in an entirely new way.

I know, it's almost as if instead of arising out of whole cloth anew each time, science and engineering build on a groundwork of what came before, even if it doesn't provide a direct solution. Crazy!

frank sinatra solved the problem of getting waterfalls of pussy but it had to be solved all over again by the Beatles for a new generation.

picture yourself on a boat on a river / with tangerine trees and waterfalls of pussy

and also picture it on the moon

need a timeline of waterfalls of pussy throughout history tbh

i bet vespucci did better than columbus

http://www.oneism.org/images/INCA_TREE_OF_LIFE.jpg

"Subterranean Light of The Roots"

pretty into the sky jaguar tbh

warning! picture not to scale.

looks like that sky jaguar ate too many magical blueberries

those are souls smart guy. cosmic soul poos.

god has such a modest house. approve.

Would go to skyvillages of the tree spirits for a holiday.

Merseybeat and the Monkees are dead. Moonbahton Is The Thing!

I rarely ask my wife ILX questions but I put this to her last night and it was "the Moon" in a heartbeat then I got "That's not even a question really. People are choosing the Beatles? What? 300 Posts? That's what you people waste your time thinking about?"

That's why I rarely ask my wife ILX questions.

i hope you replied "go to the moon? well that's lucky, cos I gotta crater beer"

''One of these days, Alice! As soon as space tourism becomes affordable to the middle class due to economies of scale!''

one of my greatest fears in life is someday having a level-headed, pragmatic wife who discourages me, even gently, from thinking and talking about "nonsense."

"have some sense of proportion," she would say -- thirty-eight times a day. and so he built the Total Perspective Vortex, just to show her. and into one end he plugged the whole of reality (as extrapolated from a fairy-cake), and into the other end he plugged his wife. so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation, and herself in relation to it.

to trin tragula's horror, the shock annihilated her brain. but, to his satisfaction, he realized he had conclusively proved that if life is to exist in a universe of this size, the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

It completely slipped my mind that I walked on the moon earlier this year.

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Fun, but I'm still voting Beatle.

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Great another luna clusterfuck

lol difficult listening hour.

hahaha. i should have added "be dean warehem" as an option just to see if even a single person would click it.

one of my greatest fears in life is someday having a level-headed, pragmatic wife who discourages me, even gently, from thinking and talking about "nonsense."

probably the kind of women that astronauts were married to. you need a yoko.

yoko cuz yolo

Put it this way:

Which of the Beatles would rather have walked on the moon?

And which of the moonwalkers would rather have been in The Beatles?

Christ imagine being stuck in a capsule with John Lennon for four days

I mean I love him but christ.

George is probably maybe the chillest? Moody, but at least more of a listener and sort of quiet.

I can see Michael Collins as a Beatle. He'd be good in a press conference with the lads. Neil's def not a fit, and Buzz is ornery as fuck.

i think ringo would have been the easiest to get along with in a moon capsule. george would be quieter, but in a disconcerting way. pensive and mystical.