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Can someone clue me in. "They brought back little—841 pounds of old rocks, Aldrin's smuggled aesthetic bliss". What is meant by "aesthetic bliss"? Is that a ref
by sopooneo 14y ago
Can someone clue me in. "They brought back little—841 pounds of old rocks, Aldrin's smuggled aesthetic bliss". What is meant by "aesthetic bliss"? Is that a reference to something?
- mcguire 14y ago109:43:16 Aldrin: Beautiful view! 109:43:18 Armstrong: Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here. 109:43:24 Aldrin: Magnificent desolation. (Long Pause) -- http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html
- sopooneo 14y agoThank you. So during that long pause Aldrin was soaking up the scenery and thereby gaining "aesthetic bliss"? If that is the case, "smuggled" just seems a strange word choice. If that's not it, I guess I'm just being dense because I don't get it.
- jpontin 14y agoI really just meant: that aesthetic bliss was a fairly unlikely emotion for an Air Force pilot and MIT-trained PhD in astronautics to bring aboard the Lunar Module and bring out on the surface of the Moon. Hence, "smuggled".