I believe in Billy Pilgrim…“If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I’ve said.” Now he closes his speech as he closes every speech—with these words: “Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.”
It should be epic.
When did NASA say they’d release the first batch of fully focused images ? It’s in the next week, right?
It is scheduled for July 12th.
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It’s today…
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Getting tired of the music. Finally, first photo is up, looking back over 13 billion years. OK, a single photo but I felt the presentation was lame.
Firstly, look at ALL that universe.
Secondly, if I understand correctly, I will add to this.
Picture the entire Earth as sand. From it’s deepest core all the way up to the atmosphere. Just sand. From a “universe-to-Earth” ratio in terms of perspective, what you are seeing is the equivalent of a single grain of sand.
Amazing and humbling all at the same time.
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This poem, though not exactly a good fit, comes to mind. (just imagining millions staring into this picture today)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull
The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be—
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.
They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?
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I love how the closer bright stars are ‘lensing’ the galaxies with gravity.
and yea, hold a grain of sand up between your fingers at arms length and that’s the size of the night sky they photographed. and it’s chocked FULL of galaxies.
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Tried to copy an enlarged photo from flickr but it won’t paste here.
Not sure about that, but my immortal digital self will undoubtedly be rooting for theLlions to break the Bobby Lane Curse 324.0 next season.
In truth I think they would just beat each other off.
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Interesting…
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No one thinks that if they find pieces of a downed Su-35 in a Ukrainian field that if given enough time it would re-assemble back into a sketchy close air support bomber…
Nucleotide pairs buried in meteorites…scorched billiin year old ones at that, to me, may be debris, not building blocks.
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Exactly Weasel. Second Law of Thermodynamics proves all things trend toward disorder. More specifically, as one goes forward in time, the net entropy (degree of disorder) of any isolated or closed system will always increase or at least stay the same. This is a Law, not a theory.
So the concept, however poetical, that human life was “created by compounds” from outer space is not consistent with what we know of the order, structure and “genius” behind the world.
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