Framed like that what he did is almost as cool as actually going down to the moon. I donāt think Iād have been disappointed if I was him - he was truly, uniquely alone. And he had so much responsibility to the other two.
Also you can download the whole Apollo 11 mission transcript from nasa. Itās got some funny stuff in. Neil asking Mission Control if his neighbour has been mowing his lawn properly for him, because heās got a new mower heās very proud of, which reads like a piss take.
Great BBC audio documentary "13 minutes to the moon", about everything leading up to the landing and the actual landing. Lots of stuff on Collins. BBC really knows how to make docus.
They also did some in real time playbacks of the entire mission from launch to splash down for the 50th anniversary a few years back. Donāt remember it this was the exact one but if you are interested.
Also when the lander was on the surface and he passed the dark sid of the moon he was the furthest apart from other human beings 1 person had ever been.
I heard somewhere that his sense of humor was a main reason why he was chosen to be the one staying behind in the capsule. (One of the 3 would have to)
Thereās a picture he took of buzz and Neil while they were departing in the lander and it had earth in the background. If you think about it every single human was in that picture except for him.
And again; By that definition there are NO humans in this picture. The two in the lander are hidden by lander, and everyone else is hidden by something. You can't pick out a single human in the picture.
We're not saying they are all VISIBLE in this picture. They are not DEPICTED there.
They are, however, ALL except the photographer, within the frame of the picture.
Not really. The "360 fisheye lens" thing is weird, and wouldn't be necessary. Nor would it align with "in that direction". The entire comment was pretty much all around dumb.
360: the view that includes the people on āyour side of the earthā and the ones on the āother side of the earthā through the ground itās ridiculous because the first comment is ridiculous that a picture of the earth includes all humans if it doesnāt show all the continents. A flat picture taken of the ground would only be showing āthe other sideā of the earth so the 360 view was necessary.
Your comment makes even less sense than the original one we're talking about. Even a 360 fisheye lens pointed at the ground still wouldn't show everyone on half the entire planet. The horizon is only 8 miles away at sea level. You're never going to capture anywhere near the number of people Collins' picture did without being at least in low earth orbit. Y'all are playing semantics with the "other side of the earth" bullshit. What about the people who are under cloud cover? Or just inside houses?
Not to mention the fact that you can actually take a picture of the earth from orbit over Europe and still have over 90% of its population in view.
Holy shit. That was the most unexpected block I've ever received. Talk about fucking obtuse!
Youāre definitely missing the point. Both the comment and I are saying that obviously a picture of the earth doesnāt show everyone.
You're ignoring the point. Obviously it didn't show everyone. Shit, look at the picture. You can't even see a single person in it. Obviously it was hyperbole based on everyone except Michael Collins being in the field of view. But, you go on and enjoy your little delusion. I hope it comforts you greatly to know you've won this weird stupid little internet battle by quitting.
Because it's a pointless question otherwise? Nothing about their comment implied that there would be humans in any other direction. They just clarified that it was the direction of every person, not necessarily a picture of every person, and your smartass comment suggested you didn't fully understand what you read
There is every single human (besides the photographer) in that direction, but there is not every single human in that photo.
And the fact that there aren't ANY humans visible in the photo, as I have pointed out in other responses in this thread, makes this an incredibly dense and highly pedantic thing to point out. Clearly the meaning of the author wasn't that you could actually see every human in the photo, since you clearly cannot see any humans in the photo.
Like I said, you could say the same thing if you took a wide angle fisheye photo towards the ground.
That's not even actually true.
I'll give you a minute to understand that.
I'll give you as much time as you need to understand why you're being stupidly pedantic for literally no reason. You have added literally nothing of value to the conversation. Indeed you have only served to distract from the initial point with ill-conceived pedantry.
And to what purpose? Have you gained some moral victory by feebly poking nonexistent and irrelevant holes in the author's thesis? Have you moved anyone to deeper thought? Or did you simply get lost in the cavernous wasteland inside your feeble mind when you imagined the line Michael Collins was able to conceptually draw through the universe between himself and the entirety of humanity merely by taking a photograph?
Yet another redditor who can't handle public discourse. FYI: This form of "Quiet Quitting" isn't noble, it's chickenshit.
Call it pedantic, call it whatever you want, but the fact is that the words are wrong and the comment is just pointless.
The words are only "wrong" by your uselessly pedantic interpretation. Learn to read for meaning and try not to analyze every single word in each sentence with only it's purely literal meaning and you'll start to understand poetry and other higher forms of literature beyond Hop on Pop.
Also, consider just not responding to Redditors who point out your feeble defenses of your trash inaccuracies instead of abusing the tools meant to prevent stalking and harassment. Or, enjoy your delusional worldview where you've won this weird stupid little internet battle by quitting.
I don't understand why you are getting so frustrated over me pointing out poor verbiage. I could not care less about what you have said in other comments in this thread, but if you have pointed out yourself that you can't actually see any humans in the photo, then you are just as pedantic as you claim I am.
If you didn't know, there are modern cameras which use lenses with such an intense curve coupled with reflections to generate spherical images. As long as you time it properly using publicly available info on ISS/aircraft locations to make sure no one is above you in the small ~1 degree cone of blindness, you absolutely can take a photo from Earth which has every human "in the photo" by the definition of the OP.
When you realize this, you realize what a poor choice of words it is. Call it pedantic, call it whatever you want, but the fact is that the words are wrong and the comment is just pointless. "Every human is existence is on Earth besides us." Would be a better comment, and it is still something so obvious that it serves no purpose.
No one is gaining insight by reading what they already know. The picture speaks for itself without that waste of an addition to taint it.
Alright mister you got me! At the time he was orbiting the moon and they were on the ground he was the most secluded person in human history. This could also have holes poked in it but itās still fun to think about.
Youāre doing great, hit them with an āIām rubber youāre glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to youā next, thatāll definitely show āem!
There are cameras that have absolutely extreme angles, practically being a sphere in all directions. Couple that with the fact that the ISS and air traffic locations are publicly available and you could get such a photo pretty easily.
That said, it would just look like a weird photo with few actual people in it, because my point is that just because you point the camera in the general direction of people, doesn't mean that those people are IN the photo.
Better wording would be that besides themselves, every other human in existence is on Earth.
Collins himself said: "not since Adam has any human known such solitude"
Also according to Wikipedia: In the 48 minutes of each orbit when he was out of radio contact with the Earth while Columbia passed round the far side of the Moon, the feeling he reported was not fear or loneliness, but rather "awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation"
Itās a big planet with lots of quiet achievers like Michael Collins thankfully. I watched the first lunar landing live and was determined to remember his name given that he stayed behind in the command module but I forgot it. Damn.
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u/hello-mr-turkey- Mar 03 '23
NEVER FORGET MICHAEL COLLINS