From out there on the moon...

[woo me with science]

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[reformist2]

2. The Earth's a Big Blue Marble...

[1monster]

15. The younger sister of a former coworker of mine (late '70s?) was a subject of

one of the BIG BLUE MARBLE segments. I wonder whether she made her goals, or if they changed along the way...

[Octafish]

3. Mitchell!

Brilliant. Fearless. Patriot. Human.

Thanks for the heads-up on that quote, woo me with science! For some reason, I had never read the last sentence before.

Something else on the subject of our blue sphere as seen from space:

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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." -- Carl Sagan

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Dr Mitchell. The free-thinking philosopher of the early Astronaut Corps...

[HardTimes99]

7. Pshaw! As Hamlet put it, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count

myself King of infinite space. Except I have bad dreams."

Kudos to you for the Sagan quote

[woo me with science]

9. Thank you

for posting this.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Thank you for this.

It puts my Sunday - and everything else - into perspective.

[HardTimes99]

6. My riposte to the RWers: "Earth, Love it or leave it!" (Or, as some

wag put it in replying to the Fundy crazies: "Why wait for the Rapture? Leave now!"

[MoonRiver]

8. Love it!

We are so arrogant about our endless political shenanigans. What we fail to realize is that, in the grand scheme of things, all our teeth gnashing and pontification mean exactly nothing. This too shall pass, and very, very soon.

[hobbit709]

10. From even further out.

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[woo me with science]

17. Wow.

Thank you.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

20. Fucking awesome.

Wow.

[bhikkhu]

11. I can't remeber if I've ever rec'd one of your OPs before

but this one is an easy call - k&r

[felix_numinous]

12. Thank you woo

This reflects exactly how I'm feeling today.

[WillyT]

13. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[adirondacker]

14. Most Excellent quote! Thanks for posting! nt

[meti57b]

16. "You're going to the moon, Alice!"

[deutsey]

18. "What's going to happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all one?" Bill Hicks

[tavalon]

23. Bill Hicks was a christ

There have been many. The Dalai Lama is one, though he seems untortured by this world, which is amazing to me.

Why do they usually die young? Is this world just too awful for them? Bill Hicks was a friend of my father in law. He was the real deal but he was so tortured. It destroyed him that he couldn't wake us up. Goodness knows, he tried.

[BelgianMadCow]

26. We are one

thanks for posting that, hadn't seen anything of Bill Hicks before.

Occupy Love

[roamer65]

19. June 5, 2012

I will never forget the transit of Venus. Once in a lifetime event. It was amazing.

[DeSwiss]

21. K&R

[tavalon]

22. If it would stop all the political bullshit, I would happily send every politician

to the moon. Might leave them there.

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, woo me with science.

[nikto]

25. Good thread

Thanks!

[gtar100]

27. Only now it's not the politicians who need to be reminded so much as the bankers and CEOs and every

greedy investor who wants to be rich without working for it, without producing anything of value with their time and energy. Convince those people to stop being such assholes and the politicians will follow. (With apologies to the few politicians who work tirelessly against the madness of our self-destruction.)