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[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Pickleideas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, technically the first people to land on the moon were also the first people to travel to earth. I wonder if that technicality will be a point of debate for a distant future civilization since it was a round-trip

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd consider Juri Gagarin to be the first who landed on earth

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Erm actually the first person to jump was the first person to land

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You speak of 'landing' as if it were a choice, as if our ancestors stepped off a ship with a dream in their hearts and a map in their hands. No. They were dragged from the soil of their own homes, shackled in the belly of a beast, and dropped into a nightmare. That rock didn't welcome us; it crushed us. It was the foundation of a system built to keep us beneath it, to ensure that no matter how hard we pushed, the weight of that history would keep us pinned to the bottom.

Do not mistake the victim of a collision for a passenger on the ship. We were not the ones steering the vessel; we were the cargo, and the wreckage of that 'landing' is still felt in every generation that has had to claw its way out from under the debris"

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

No I mean your mom is as fat as the earth and the bitch landed on me.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Really depends on how the birth goes.