#michael collins

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Michael Collins in a 2019 Time magazine (full cite below in case of link rot):

And I think STEM is wonderful and important. But I do not consider it to be a complete education. Perhaps I’ve known too many incoherent engineers… if I’m an engineer and I mess up a presentation of important facts because I obscure them in a flood of jargon, and I can’t really get my point across using the English language, then I think that’s important.

Kluger, Jeffrey (2019-07-11). "Apollo 11 Had 3 Men Aboard, But Only 2 Walked on the Moon. Here’s What it Was Like to Be the Third." Time magazine. Accessed 2025-04-02.

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

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Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!

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The Apollo 11 crew in quarantine, 1969

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Michael Collins, 1969

[facts-i-just-made-up]

In honor of the moon landing's anniversary, we need a fact 👀

The moon landing took place in 1969 when the moon grew tired of running circles around the Earth and finally landed for a break.

Having touched down in a field near Topeka, Kansas, the moon rolled briefly before coming to a stop against the wall of a barn belonging to Neil and Louis Armstrong. Neil became the first man to "walk" on the moon when he mistook it for a grey beach ball and kicked it over into the field of his neighbors, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Collins was away in Ireland declaring independence so Buzz became the second man to walk on the moon when he kicked it back toward Neil's farm. It bounced off the roof of their lube silo however, and resumed its place in the sky.

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins soon forgot the events, but resumed their orgies the next week with renewed vigor. As Neil straddled Aldrin's sturdy figure and kissed his neck, the lust overwhelmed him and he began to- Eh, never mind I'm not doing this again.

[i-am-trying-my-best-okay]

When The Zeyn Syre Universe Lore is so deep you gotta make multiple family trees on Family Echo (will edit when given more lore)

(CHRISTIAN - LAST NAME UNKNOWN), Kline, River and Syre Family

Dove Family

Collins Family

Lee and Novak Family

Miller Family

(ACE AND BITTER - LAST NAME UNKNOWN) Family

OC's Belong to Zeyn_Syre on youtube

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Moon Day

55yrs ago on July 20th 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins made history.

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Deep in the Underdark in Sloopdilmonpolop, the City of Pools, Va-Poolgol Dagagoorg the mad high priest/king tends the kuo-toa's Sacred Pool of the Sea Mother, Blibdoolpoolp, under the protection of Gapolploorg the commander of the priest/thieves and Oorg-Poolgoop Gibupgagool the priest-duke of war. (Michael Collins, Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark by Eric L Boyd, TSR, 1999)

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Michael Collins

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Mike Collins who storyboarded Season 1 is back for Season 2! Wahoo! :)

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A behind the scenes photo from, 'From the Earth to the Moon' where Cary portrayed astronaut Michael Collins (1998)

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“Think– what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past 700 years. Will anyone be satisfied with the bargain? Will anyone?”

“I went out to strike a blow against the bloody British Empire”

Irish Revolution Fancast: Paul Mascal as Michael Collins and Anthony Boyle has Harry Boland

[janeway-lover]

Let’s hear a round of applause for these badasses, who got strapped on top of a rocket and hurtled toward a giant rock in space.

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin

[commodorez]

Happy Moon Day!

Today we celebrate one of my favorite holidays! The 55th anniversary of the day humans landed on the surface of the moon by LM-5, "Eagle" carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

To celebrate, I thought I'd share some pictures I've taken with three important project Gemini capsules. Specifically, the first capsules flown by each of Apollo 11's future crew members, years before they were selected for their famous voyage.

Gemini VIII: Neil Armstrong's first space flight with Dave Scott

Gemini X: Michael Collins' first space flight with John Young

Gemini XII: Buzz Aldrin's first space flight with Jim Lovell

Anyway, Happy Moon Day!