2019.08.05 09:46
20 Space Photos That Are Mind-Blowing, Beautiful, And A Little Scary
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/20-mind-blowing-beautiful-space-photos
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2019.08.05 09:55
2019.08.05 13:22
leaving your room, of which you know each bit,
your house is the last before the infinite, . . .
(from Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Eingang”, MacIntyre translation)
The light which strikes my retina
as I look at the Great Galaxy in Andromeda
left there two million years ago.
(Hominids made tools from stone then, but had not yet learned the use of fire.
Genetic material from certain of these hominids has been passed
from one being to another and now is in my own body.)
Millennia from now, humans who have
colonized the farthest reaches of our galaxy,
laboriously creating and maintaining Earth-like atmospheres,
will marvel that there once was a place so perfectly suited to human life
that such labor was unnecessary. (Just as we marvel that orchids,
whose precise temperature and humidity requirements would seem to necessitate a greenhouse, grow wild in the Amazon.)
I cannot believe in a personal God,
intervening in human affairs, but stand in awe
of the terrible force which set the stars and galaxies in motion
–strewing them like so much confetti–;
the life-force running through each living creature,
as straight and true as a ray of light from that galaxy in Andromeda,
willing us to live, grow and be fruitful.
By Adam Evans – M31, the Andromeda Galaxy (now with h-alpha)Uploaded by NotFromUtrecht, CC BY 2.0
Hear Jerry/Lucius read this poem. This poem is part of the Scraps of Faith collection of poems.
Keywords: life-force, humans, universe, God, cosmos, galaxies, eternity, famous, meaning of life
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On a day when the stock market crashed and
the day after two mass shootings and crazy killings,
we may look at these mind boggling beautiful space photos
just to be reminded just how crazy, how disoriented we humans are
in our behavior on this precious planet that is the gift to them
by WHOEVER.