you are missing something! although those are the boots of the apollo 11 suits, they’re not what was worn on the moon. neil armstrong, not content with wearing just one pair of shoes, demanded nasa make him another, larger and cooler pair of boots just for walking on the moon.
you can see them here, to the right of the suit’s built-in boots.
photos of armstrong on the moon prominently feature the boots!
although i couldn’t find any official nasa photos of the bottoms of the boots, i could find something even more interesting! an x-ray of the boots “taken as a last minute check to see if there were any foreign objects that could compromise the integrity of the spacesuit during the mission, such as broken off tips of needles that were used in the stitching process”
the thick vertical lines are the treads at the bottoms of the boots
on a more pragmatic note: if nasa was faking a moon landing with a $150 billion+ budget, do you really think they’d mess up something as simple as a boot print?
me tryna figure out how come steven universe gets a 2 hour video about why it’s terrible and a whole ass community dedicated to complaining about everything this children’s tv show did wrong but no other piece of media faces the same level of scrutiny on this website
(I’mma transcript from Twitter bc I think I made good wording in there)
Lmao its probably internalized homophobia.
Like, we tend to be hasher and meaner to progressive media messing up/not being perfect and it’s legit an issue many DON’T know they have, we do the same with people, sadly.
Like, we can pardon a media made by/or for white/ cishet to fuck up on anything and we still eat it up, and if a white/cishet makes a mistake we can shrug it off easily.
But when its progressive media or a queer/person of color then we suddenly put everything they do under a bullseye.
And I’m not trynna dismiss SU’s issues bc I know is not a perfect show and I know it has a lot to work on but it’s true that we are harsher on it because many of us expected it to be a perfect ideal show, when it was never marketed as such.
I cannot tell you WHY particularly but I think is our internalized desperate need to be accepted and seen as good people in order to not be discriminated.
We’ve been demonized for so long that, internally, we think the only way to break that is to be seen as ideal and flawless.
no, it’s cause the show trash lmao
even if the uploader of that is a completely awful person that shows she cannot or will not edit herself by having a TWO FUCKING HOUR VIDEO
you think, you all really genuinely think that fucking stevie galaxy the only shit to get that kinda of treatment?
Not actually comprehend anything happening right in front of them
heteronormativity is a hell of a drug
May I add:
Once on Facebook I mentioned getting married at a big mad max themed campout. One of the guys that regularly attends told me to take my wife to visit his camp for a drink. I told him my husband, actually.
And he then said “wow, I’m sorry, I’ve never met a girl named dave before! Now I’ve seen everything.”
This dude thought I was a girl name David before he thought I was a gay man. Straight people are wild.
Don0303 