Look at that, you SOB!

Hello! I am here to hijack DJK's blog with this first posting. Lots of great people have passed away this year. Among them is Edgar Mitchell, a NASA astronaut involved in Apollo 14. I must admit, I never heard of him prior to 10 minutes ago, but he had this one awesome quote describing his experience of seeing the Earth from the Moon.

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch'."
- Edgar Mitchell, 1930 - 2016