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[femmeboy]

Why did it take me 30 years to realize the Major Tom committed suicide? I always assumed that there was a mechanical malfunction.

It's like the women who lived upstairs from me until I was 12. I had no idea they were a couple until I was an adult and my mom mentioned it. I take obliviousness to an art form.

Comments

[mornhyland]

Grin... Don't feel bad, we all have those moments. 30 years??? you aren't that old!

[femmeboy]

That's exactly how old I am. :) I'm more amused than anything else, how we come to accept what we think the world is.

[femmeboy]

Oops, spoiler alert! :)

I've always liked the song, can sing all the words, but didn't put it together until I was singing it today and went, "wait a minute! He said goodbye *before* the engines fuck up. And immediately set to google to confirm, because the internet only says true things.

Excited to see you this weekend. I have to work a bunch during the day on Saturday, but there will definitely be time to see each other. Have a safe trip up.

[mornhyland]

And immediately set to google to confirm, because the internet only says true things.

I can now go take my exam with a chuckle. Thank you.

[frankiejlh]

You beat me by 3 years. I totally thought it was just an engine malfunction and didn't pry any more deeply into the lyrics, and thus the song always seemed a little off - but in that interestingly creepy way it always seems off when people die by floating off into space. Especially the type of space death where someone accidentally floats in the wrong direction and can't get any momentum to go back and everyone's kinda slow on the uptake like "oh, wait; shit! no one can save you now!" and you didn't expect that because a moment ago everyone was just bobbing around and bantering through their helmet intercoms and enjoying themselves. And if astronauts can be slow on the uptake like that, we certainly can be.

[femmeboy]

Exactly, that's what I always thought it was, all tragic about our ability to get into space but then trip over our own cosmic shoes. I'm not sure I like it as much this other way.