"Homesick": my favorite screenshot ever

[AbacusWizard]

"Homesick"

[Commander Zoom]

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

[AbacusWizard]

Nice--I'm also reminded of an Arthur C. Clarke story (I think it's called "Birthright"?) about a father taking his young son out of the underground moon colony in a rover for the first time, driving out over the horizon, and showing him--for the first time in his life--Earth. Then it turns into even more of a tear-jerker when he tells the kid that someday, when the radiation dies down, maybe he or his children or his grandchildren might go back and re-colonize it.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

On 12/24/2015 at 0:18 AM, Commander Zoom said:

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

Stop making me cry!

[livefree75]

On 12/24/2015 at 3:42 AM, AbacusWizard said:

Nice--I'm also reminded of an Arthur C. Clarke story (I think it's called "Birthright"?) about a father taking his young son out of the underground moon colony in a rover for the first time, driving out over the horizon, and showing him--for the first time in his life--Earth. Then it turns into even more of a tear-jerker when he tells the kid that someday, when the radiation dies down, maybe he or his children or his grandchildren might go back and re-colonize it.

I read that in English class; it's called "If I Forget Thee, O Earth..."

It is a really good story.

[AbacusWizard]

7 hours ago, livefree75 said:

I read that in English class; it's called "If I Forget Thee, O Earth..."

It is a really good story.

Yeah, that's the one! Clarke was an amazing writer.

[Planetfall]

That's a good picture, makes you feel bad about Leaving Jeb in orbit for 14+ years. Did you make it? If so well done.

[AbacusWizard]

On 12/27/2015 at 8:22 AM, Planetfall said:

That's a good picture, makes you feel bad about Leaving Jeb in orbit for 14+ years. Did you make it? If so well done.

Thanks--I find the old "Earthrise" photo very inspiring and wanted to incorporate that general idea into a picture that captures the loneliness of being that far away from home. The tricky part (because of tidal locking) was finding a landing zone where Kerbin would be at a nice-looking angle above the horizon. After landing I realized there was a big crater nearby and figured that would be a nice foreground. I like the way it turned out.

Edited December 28, 2015 by AbacusWizard

[Planetfall]

Yah being so far away from any one must have been such a strange experience. I heard that the pilots in the apolo command capsules were picked for being introverted so not to go mad.

[AbacusWizard]

Speaking of lonely, I have been reading The Martian and it is AMAZING.

[Andem]

Goddamn 25 like limit. Belgium.