Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Lonely, I Guess That's Where I'm From

Interesting answer HERE to the question "What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person?"

I'd always thought the answer was Michael Collins - in particular, this still blows my mind:
As for Collins, a little while back a picture circulated the ‘net (shown at the top of this post). It shows the Lunar Module carrying Aldrin and Armstrong returning to orbit, about to rendezvous with the Command Module carrying Collins.
You’ve probably seen it; I have looked at this picture countless times. But it still startled me when I saw the caption someone had dreamed up for it: “Michael Collins is the only human being, living or dead, not in the frame of this picture.”

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