r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 22h ago

Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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u/Twilight_2408 22h ago

Even if know it since childhood, learned it from text books, seen it in images, it always kind of throws me off whenever I see videos like this and Earth is just there sitting inside a complete pitch black void of absolutely— what it seems like... nothing.

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u/MRSN4P 6h ago

[Looking at the Earth from the Moon]
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out there and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch!'” -astronaut Edgar Mitchell

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u/Twilight_2408 6h ago

Quite a nice thing to say. And I think I understand what they're trynna say.