Carl Sagan On The Moon Landing & American ‘Humanitarianism’

Carl Sagan On The Moon Landing & American 'Humanitarianism'

A poignant quote by Carl Sagan on the terrible irony of American peace and the moon landing:

For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. That plaque is there still, attached to the base of the Apollo 11 lunar module on the airless desolation of the Sea of Tranquility. If no one disturbs it, it will still be readable a million years from now.

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