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Skaiiaiai
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29yo female programmer. Well-nourished, well-appearing, and in no acute distress. Terrified of climate change ♨️
29yo female programmer. Well-nourished, well-appearing, and in no acute distress. Terrified of climate change ♨️
![a field of ripe bygg/barley [Hordeum vulgare], shot so that it's like there's no end in sight. all the heads are practically upside down ,they are so ripe](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fvdjidsvcsx6q6cmyeigjhsh/bafkreihgpjjqi2b3cq26rwisfzddwbg76xpy3uzldqsarg6wuyduuzncx4)
![THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 19, 1969
To: H.R. Haldeman
From: William Safire
My fellow Americans,
Good
evening. The astronauts have exploded. Hello. My name is
President Richard Nixon. The crew members of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Neil "Buzz" Armstrong, and Michael "Buzz" Collins, have become dead in space. Something went wacko with the machines, and like many great men before them, Buzz and his husbands exploded.
[NOTE: HOLD FOR APPLAUSE]
While the loss of these brave men is tragic, we should not weep for them, for they understood the risks of a lunar mission.
They knew that space was an area where things go wacko with the machines. We made it clear that if they exploded in space, there was very little hope of putting them back together. I'm sure as their spaceship was erupting into a flaming chamber of death all around them, the astronauts were thinking, "This makes a lot of sense." We can take comfort in that.
Buzz and his husbands did not jump into space because they knew they would succeed. No, they went to space because mankind has an unquenchable thirst for strange new rocks. The moon is brimming with weird stones and boulders, and we want them.
Mankind wants the baffling rocks, and even though these men exploded, we're going to send more men to get the rocks.
I knew these men, and I knew their bravery and courage. On the night before the Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched into space by unknown forces, I came into Neil Armstrong's bedroom and woke him up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jn2c6bcr5rcwlmfcfn5k37sm/bafkreifnubo4qd4qnru3qvjn2myvuwba7o2ath26u4weslus7yfzhh2rfu)
