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Makes me wonder how many people actually saw the impact.
Nice that they put some perspective on what this night mean for permanent/semi-permanent living structures on the lunar surface. Though I think right now we can’t build anything capable of sustaining a 5-tons-of-TNT equivalent strike.
I have three of these cameras, this is one of the dead ones so I took it apart to discover the mechanical watch like components buried inside. Really quite amazing considering the direction cameras have taken full of circuit boards and sensors.
I enjoy well composed photos of cameras. And there’s also something so meta about that kind of shot.
[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
John Adams, Speech on Independence Day to the House of Representatives, 1821
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But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general — in no country, have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keen sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitutions and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments.
—Noah Webster, On Education of Youth in America, 1790
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