UNWANTED FOOTPRINTS

The Foot Prints that couldn't be left behind

Fleeing

Vertebrate flee alarm calls can provide information about the type of predator, and some mammalian alarm calls also appear to communicate the degree of danger and therefore urgency of escape.

Escape – To break free of; break away from – Meriam Webster Dictionary

I want to be as free as the spirits of those who left
I’m talking Malcom, Coltrane, my man Yusef – ( “Be” Album by Artist Common)

The red arrows indicate the slope across the nullcline while the blue arrows show larger trends. The green circles represent potential diagrams of how two populations in a predator-prey relationship could vary with respect to each other. Over time, the two populations have a periodic solution

The Speech

John F. Kennedy felt the tension of the nation when he gave his “By the end of the decade speech” The country was dealing with a lot of social turbulence and still in competition with the beast of the East. So on that speech he let it all out,

 

In a presence of discharge as yet mysterious to me, I imagined it was something that festered in a man’s body and then came spurting from his mouth when he was completely consumed by grief. – (Phillip Roth, 148)

 

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and Leaving Him There. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to Mankind…” – (John F. Kennedy, By the End of the Decade Speech)

Collin’s Reflection

REPORTER

I’m struck from the movies and the still pictures by the difference in the very hostile appearance of the Moon when you’re orbiting over it or some distance from it and the warmer colors and the relatively apparently more friendly appearance of it when you’re on the surface. I’d like to ask Colonel Collins if he gets that same impression from the pictures and the two of you who were on the Moon, what impression do you have along those lines?

COLLINS

The Moon changes character as the angle of sunlight striking its surface changes. At very low Sun angles close to the terminator at dawn or dusk, it has the harsh, forbidding characteristics which you see in a lot of the photographs. On the other hand when the Sun is more closely overhead, the midday situation, the Moon takes on more of a brown color. It becomes almost a rosy looking place — a fairly friendly place so that from dawn through midday through dusk you run the whole gamut. It starts off very forbidding, becomes friendly and then becomes forbidding again as the Sun disappears

 

–         (www.hq.nasa.gov-

Part VI)

 

“Forbidding???” – Reporter asked.

 

“Yeah Forbidding….you know there was a lot of turbulence”

 

“You mean like the social violence back on earth”

 

“Well I guess, I tried not to think about the war and other things though”

 

“A lot of Vietnam soldiers tuned into the historical moments”

 

“I figured they would”

 

“you guys were heroes, you uplifted America”

 

“I don’t know about all those things but it was really nice to be up there for 4 days”

 

“Where??? Up at the moon”

 

“Yeah”

 

“You had to come down eventually though right???” – Reporter commented humorously

 

“Yeah of course, life goes on, beside I’ve got kids” – Collin replied adding to the laughter.

 

  Change the object itself – Roland Barthes

Buzz’s Reflection

 

 

 

In this picture, you see me driving the core tube into the surface. (Photo 26.) We collected two different core tube samples. It was quite surprising, the resistance that was met in this subsurface medium, and at the same time, you see that it did not support very well the core tube as I was driving it into the surface. – Aldrin (www.hq.nasa.gov – Part III)

“Yeah I see, you look like you’re working hard there” – Anonymous Interviewer

 

“Yeah I broke my first sweat on the moon”  – Armstrong said sarcastically

 

“Feels anything like doing yard work???”

 

“Yeah like when my wife makes me do chores around the house”

 

“Don’t like chores???”

 

“Me, nah…”

 

“Where were the rest of the guys here?”

 

“Oh here, I think Armstrong is wandering around for a good place to plant the flag”

 

“What about Michael???”

 

“Oh Collins…” – Buzz laughing. “Collins didn’t want to come down from the space craft for some reason, he orbited around for most of the trip…”

 

“You think he was afraid???”

 

“No that’s just Collins, he’s very kept to himself”

 

 

 

 

Change the object itself – Roland Barthes

Armstrong Reflection

 

 

 

I quickly put up the TV camera. And then more leisurely Buzz and I joined together to erect the American flag. (Photo 15.) We found on a number of occasions when we were able to help each other in many ways on the surface. You probably recall the times that I got my foot caught in the television cable, and Buzz was able to help me extract it without falling down – Armstrong. (First Lunar Landing Part II – http://www.hq.nasa.gov)

 

So what were you and Buzz talking about right there in the picture, if anything at all?? – The interviewer asked.

 

Oh, its funny cause I was asking Buzz what he plans to do once we got back to earth – Armstrong replied.

 

“What did he say??”

 

“He said he had to pick up his daughter from school”

 

“What about you??? Did you also have to pick up your daughter?”

 

“No, I received news earlier that my brother is being discharge from the Vietnam war. So I had to visit him at the hospital when I got back home.”

 

“Home??? The moon didn’t feel like home.”

 

“No, but it will be nice to stay here for a while longer.” – Armstrong said jokingly.

 

Change the object itself – Roland Barthes

 

Tissue of quotation – Roland Barthes

My inescapability

Left – Buzz Aldrin faces the camera as his helmet reflects the lunar module and Neil Armstrong taking his picture. Armstrong kept the camera and took many photos of Buzz, but none were actually taken of him. Mid – At Mission Control, the large television screen shows the astronauts on the moon. They then received a live message from President Nixon.Hear part of what Nixon said Right – Buzz Aldrin after deployment of scientific experiments including a seismograph for detecting lunar quakes and a laser reflector to bounce back beams from Earth to calculate the exact distance to the moon. The astronauts spent a total of 2.5 hours walking on the lunar surface in gravity only one-sixth as powerful as Earth’s. They then went back into the lunar module to rest and prepare for departure.  – (http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/apollo11/index.html)

 

I live in a very loud place, where I’m bombarded by layers of noise all at once. I can’t filter the nodes or amplitudes, I just receive it all like a radio transmission. The moment of joy comes when I open the door and leave it all behind. My home is loud and unwelcoming. Neighbors always have a routine they go through to make sure I don’t get enough sleep. I’m not insane but I always return back home. I can’t escape my trouble.

 

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results – Albert Einstein.

Dusted Footprints

We were there???

When the Apollo 11 crew landed on the moon, they left their footprints. Humans are always looking to expand their horizon. We are forever unsettling. Homo sapiens, as science like to term our race, eventually found their way from the east to the west. Perhaps from the west to the east; the direction is not what’s important but rather our cognitive need to reach new territory. It’s rather interesting that the moon might be one place where Homo sapiens might find it the hardest to colonize. According to scientist the electrically charged nature of the dust creates all sorts of problem. “Apollo astronauts reported moondust sticking to everything, spacesuits and all, and, consequentially, clogging up everything. Experts also detect a potential health risk and thus “researches of the Lunar Airborne Dust Toxicity Advisory Group (or LADTAG)” are being conducted to solve the problem. It’s interesting that a footprint can remain there for millions of years but we can’t physiologically reside on the lunar surface. It’s almost as if the star is telling us that we are not welcome to stay. After all we are always looking up at the star and IT must also sees all that goes on in our world. Heaven sees all.

 

Much that is beautiful must be discarded so that we may resemble a taller impression of ourselves – Ashbery.