are you from the US? do you like aspects of 4th of july, such as fireworks and barbecue, but you're burdened by some combination of a troubled relationship with your childhood, with your family, or a remotely cursory knowledge of US history or politics?
allow me to suggest as a replacement: Moon Landing Day!!
celebrated july 20th, on the anniversary of the moon landing, moon landing day is a celebration of the adventurous, pioneering spirit of science, and of space itself. suggested festivities include:
- get/make barbecued food and pretend it was cooked with rocket fuel. yum! :3
- get Otherworldly with dessert. i think chocolate ice cream + blackberry soda floats taste like how a nebula looks...
- wow! some of your neighbors are lighting a bunch of rockets to celebrate moon landing day 16 days early! that's festive of them! watch some of those!
- light your own fireworks! if it makes sense in terms of legal and fire risk! seriously. be smart.
- take a minute to learn about what good news is happening in science right now! there's always something, it's just way quieter than the news about the Horrors
- take a minute to learn stuff about space! there's like a bajillion edutainment space documentaries.
- engage with some other spacey media. watch a space sci-fi movie, boot up outer wilds and get that achievement you haven't gotten around to!
also if you wanna learn more about space i have a whole tag about it :3
to add to the recommendations,
i've got #lupi's space rambles tag to that end but it tends to more post on the sociopolitical aspects of modern spaceflight
I do have a space booklist though, i'll post that one of these days, but Gene Kranz'
- Failure Is Not An Option, by Gene Kranz
- Moon Shot: The Inside Story, by Alan Shepard/Deke Slayton (cowritten by Jay Barbree/Howard Benedict)
- and Two Sides Of The Moon by Alexey Leonov/Dave Scott
are three of my favorite nonfiction historical accounts.
It's never a bad time to watch The Dream is Alive, narrated by Walter Cronkite, or any of the old IMAX films from that era. also watch Good Night Oppy if you have prime or found a copy that fell off a truck
