The Thing About Civilization Is, It Keeps You Civil. Get Rid Of One, You Can’t Count On The Other.

Selene

Albert Aublet / Jules Louis Machard

Snapshots of Earth, captured by Apollo 16 astronauts on this day in 1972.

Space is one of the most hazardous environments for a human being to exist in. That's what makes it so damned enticing.

Space is so essentially deadly. It differs from any location on Earth in that way. You can't 'tame' space. You can't make a vacuum hospitable. Space is a desolate, dry, sterile, irradiated expanse, which is home to extreme temperatures and occasional overspeeding projectiles, and to which full-body exposure is almost instantly lethal. Space must command your respect.

I wish some people would realise that the obstacle to colonising Mars isn't just a lack of funding. It's crazy that there's people in the world who think that billionaires are just going to build extraterrestrial cities like it's so easy. ‘Oh, we'll just build thousands of giant rockets, and oh we'll just stuff 100 people inside each, and oh we'll just travel in an armada through deep-space, and oh we'll just land thousands of giant rockets on Mars, and oh we'll just build a city with millions of inhabitants on a freezing rocky desert with no breathable atmosphere, almost no running water, toxic soil, literally nothing to eat, and no economic incentive. Why hasn't anyone done this already? Total no-brainer!’

I say this because I used to be the kind of person who had actually thought that Mars colonisation were possible and could happen in my lifetime.

My girlfriend and I could not stop laughing about this motion blur, so I...

Apollo X - Thomas Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young

 May 18 - 26, 1969

The Size of the Sun As Seen From Each Planet

If humans aren’t meant to travel to other planets then why does my skeleton feel too heavy to exist comfortably in Earth gravity???? Explain that sweaty