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I always felt kind of bad for that dude.
From what I understand, he didn't really feel that bad about not being on the moon, he wrote in Carrying the Fire
“I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon. I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God only knows what on this side. I feel this powerfully ― not as fear or loneliness ― but as awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation. I like the feeling. Outside my window I can see stars — and that is all. Where I know the moon to be, there is simply a black void; the moon’s presence is defined solely by the absence of stars. To compare the sensation with something terrestrial, perhaps being alone in a skiff in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a pitch-black night would most nearly approximate my situation.”
To me, that sounds like an amazing experience and one that very few people have had. I personally would probably really enjoy that.
plus God only knows what on this side
Moon's haunted. 100%
Oof I feel emotions reading this. I'm not sure which emotions, though. Thank you for sharing it.
"All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon."-Floyd
three billion
Damn, the earth's population really has exploded recently. I remember when it was 5-odd, and I'm not even old.