photo credit: Popular Mechanics
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon
landing, everyone has seen photographs, cartoons, Buzz Aldrin’s thoughtful piece at the 25th anniversary mark, online at Popular Mechanics here
(h/t Instapundit), and other commemorative articles. I thought I would link to
a PC satire at Issues and Insights. It starts off:
This is the golden anniversary of
possibly the greatest physical and scientific achievement in the history of mankind,
when two Americans walked the surface of a heavenly body and returned to Earth
safely with specimens from its landscape. Those moon rocks were then shared by
America with the other nations of the world.
But had Apollo 11 happened today,
50 years after it actually did, it would be viewed by our political, media and
academic elites as a bigoted outrage.
“One small step” for whom, exactly?
A man? What about women?
What about non-white
men? What right did some white U.S. naval officer from western Ohio such as
Neil Armstrong have to speak for all of humanity?
For that matter, what about non-humanity?
Has the space program ever atoned for all the sufferings of the various
species of animals non-consensually sent into orbit to make sure space
was safe for the white men? Were any of our feathered co-inhabitants in this
world of ours consulted when the decision was made to name the lunar lander
“Eagle”?
Good satire, or, as Instapundit would say, is it? Full
editorial is here.
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