locomotivehootenanny:

A Continuous Lean posted footage of the Apollo 11 launch. It is fascinating. I mean, it seems to me that almost the whole of creation is being set ablaze in this video. I couldn’t tell you if it has sound; it’s pretty mesmerizing without it, a nice thing with which to zone out watching after a particularly difficult math problem.

Being so close to Kennedy Space Center growing up, I think it is a given that I’d like this sort of thing even though I can’t understand a lick of space engineering or whatever the correct term may be. My dad did their advertising from the time I was about eight to eighteen, so I was required to be interested in it. Not that I really minded, of course! I have an astronomical globe, a lunar globe and a French lunar map in my room. Shoot.

One day I will watch a Shuttle launch live in person. At a safe distance though, being burnt to crisp is not a factor in those plans.

Lunar globe? Fuuuck. I want one. Both a real and one based on the Moon from Morrison/Stewart’s Seaguy.