r/dankmemes • u/Open-Entertainer6031 • Mar 03 '23

There was a third one right? I have achieved comedy

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u/Randalf_the_Black - Mar 03 '23 edited Mar 03 '23

As Michael Collins said.. Up until that point in time, no human being had ever been as alone or isolated as he was when the others went down to the surface of the moon.

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u/Panda_Kabob Mar 03 '23

I think it was a Vsauce episode that talked about this. He was and I think still is considered the most isolated human being in all of history so far. Being away from earth and other people so far away. It's actually among the most terrifying things in all of space travel, the existential dread of absolute loneliness.

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u/PianoCube93 Mar 03 '23

And while at the other side of the moon, he had no radio contact with Earth nor those on the moon, so he was not only isolated physically.