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It's like being the first monkey in space. You're standing on the shoulders of giants.

• rpastuszak 4y ago
  It's funny, because the image I have in my head is a little monkey wearing a fez, also standing on a shoulder of a giant. The monkey thinks it's important, because everyone's clapping. I rarely engage in comments like this, but I think what you're doing is irresponsible, selfish, myopic and needs to be pointed out. Tone down the god complex if you really want to help the cause.
• nextaccountic 4y ago
  That's fitting. The first monkey in space was sacrificed for humanity's self-centered project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space > The first primate launched into subspace was Albert, a rhesus macaque, who on June 11, 1948, rode a rocket flight to over 63 km (39 mi) in Earth's atmosphere on a V-2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight and may actually have died in the cramped space capsule before launch.[1][2][3] Killing Albert was entirely unneeded; we did it because we could.