I was two months old when this picture was taken which means there are very good odds that the very moment it was snapped, I was pooping myself. I'm sorry, I was young and impetuous - ThreadSky

scalzi.com • 555 days ago

I was two months old when this picture was taken which means there are very good odds that the very moment it was snapped, I was pooping myself. I'm sorry, I was young and impetuous

Reposted from Dan Chibnall

Every human ever, living & dead, is in the frame of this photo, except Michael Collins

The Eagle & Earth
Orbit of the Moon
July 21st, 1969
Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, Photographer

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abracadocious.bsky.social•555 days ago

You were hittin' the bottle pretty hard, too.

capnmarrrrk.bsky.social•555 days ago

I clipped you out John. Right here 👉
If you zoom in you can see your house.

tanngrisnir.bsky.social•555 days ago

Random thing I heard ages ago: in Robert Altman's film M*A*S*H there are cutaway shots to the unit's tannoy with the Moon in the background. They were filmed when Apollo 11 was at the Moon, possibly when Armstrong and Aldrin were on the surface.

joshuanortonii.bsky.social•555 days ago

So it's a very shitty picture, then.

wooble.geoffreyspear.com•555 days ago

Almost all of the shit ever produced in our solar system is in that picture. The rest is just out of frame in a baggie they dumped on the moon.

herne.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was like 2 and a half and I was probably also pooping myself…

maryherself.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 20 months old so, same. 🤣

apearlma.bsky.social•555 days ago

Pure luna pee?

ikepigott.com•555 days ago

I was six weeks old. My mom was adamant about sitting me in front of the TV and holding my eyes open, so she could say I “saw” it.

jannileesimner.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 18 months or so and my mom woke me up to watch too. It actually … does make me happy that I saw it, even though I remember nothing.

philnorris.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 5 and a half, it was a Tuesday so I would gave been at school.

hauman.bsky.social•555 days ago

Wait, I blinked. Can we do it again?

douglaspmarx.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 11 days old, and pooping too. :)

allisontype.bsky.social•555 days ago

All about you, John. 😘

ag0ny.bsky.social•555 days ago

You young pup... I'd turned 3 a month before

rjamielanga.bsky.social•555 days ago

*young and imPOOPtuous

stevenalleyn.ca•555 days ago

The ovum which would eventually become me existed at the time, I don’t know if that counts

marcsh.bsky.social•555 days ago

Half of us existed anyway

I just realized I dont know if ovum metabolize glucose

Woah, this is fantastically complex

Which is always why this "human sexuality is easy and binary" fails so hard

The complexity of all this is hard to comprehend

catfrat.bsky.social•555 days ago

My brother got to stay up late to watch this because it was his 12th birthday. I was two, probably wandering about since my parents had too many kids

pogodragon.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 3 1/2 and - I am told - was got out of bed at 3am or so to watch the landing. I remember nothing of this, but knowing how much I like undisturbed sleep I can't imagine I was as impressed as the parental hoped I'd be.

tanngrisnir.bsky.social•555 days ago

I remember watching it, absolutely captivated.

cache22.bsky.social•555 days ago

I think the odds are very high that most of the pictures in my entire life were taken while there was a chance I was pooping myself! Probably this one too! 🤣

shalpin.bsky.social•555 days ago

The bookends of our existence John seems to be involuntary pooping.

In between those bookends?

"Fortune and Glory kid.
Fortune and Glory".

radlein.bsky.social•555 days ago

I had my eyes closed we really need to take the picture over again

marijocook.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 8, running back and forth between the trampoline and the tv to see if they had landed yet. My parents told me it was important, but I wasn't convinced.

matociquala.bsky.social•555 days ago

Do you know the Jethro Tull song about Michael Collins? I kind of love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG5zRt-sNWE

loudtristero.bsky.social•555 days ago

lol what exactly do we think it means to be "in frame"? if I take a picture inside my house, everyone outside my house along the viewfinder is "in frame"? if I point the camera straight down, did I just take a picture of a bunch of fish in the Indian Ocean?

loudtristero.bsky.social•555 days ago

check it out, I found a picture taken at the same time from earth that has the Moon, Eagle, *and* the Columbia in frame!

jsbowden.bsky.social•555 days ago

I wouldn't be born for another 347 days. The Apollo program ended when I was three, and that was the last time a human left LEO. That was 50 years ago.

readwryt.bsky.social•555 days ago

Damnit, I always forget how much younger you are. I was 7. My parents left the TV in the living room so I could watch all of this. I had the super cool Gulf Oil paper Lunar Module model!!

stevedaly.bsky.social•555 days ago

I was 7. Parents kept me up to watch the landings. I was enthralled.

rob2507.bsky.social•555 days ago

A few days away from my birth, would need to ask mom if she can remember what I was doing then!

elainerichards.bsky.social•555 days ago

Thanks. I feel old. I was sitting strewn in a pre-teenagery slovenly way, watching this on a black and white TV set. My sister came in and informed me I was "puerile". I looked at her and said, "I am a child." Check and mate.

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