Image of the Earth-Moon system, taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Jan. 17th 2018.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
Posted on 02/21/2018 11:31:43 AM PST by BenLurkin
On September 8th. 2016, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) launched from Earth to rendezvous with the asteroid 101955 Bennu. This mission will be the first American robotic spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid, which it will reach by December of 2018, and return samples to Earth for analysis (by September 24th, 2023).
Since that time, NASA has been keeping the public apprised of the mission’s progress, mainly by sending back images taken by the spacecraft. The latest image was one of the Earth and Moon, which the spacecraft took using its NavCam 1 imager on January 17th, 2018. As part of an engineering test, this image shows just how far the probe has ventured from Earth.
Image of the Earth-Moon system, taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Jan. 17th 2018.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
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We’re on fire!!!
I see myself!....................
Richard Hoagland would be proud that NASA continues its Egyptian symbolism.
Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA full text.
Suddenly I feel so insignificant...
No wonder aliens can find the Earth in space so easily.
As you should, (as everyone should) when confronted with reality such as this. Yours is the proper expression of humility I’d say. And this probe isn’t very far from the earth and moon at all, in interstellar terms. Its distance is nothing compared to the distance between stars and galaxies.
Reality such as this begs the human question everyone desperately tries to avoid answering, for real, every day: Who am I, what am I made for? It’s an uncomfortable question that finds no answer in the cold of space. Or in anything physical in nature, but we all (myself included) try desperately to avoid it by filling the void the question creates with “things”, like new cars and phones and money and sex and yes even politics.
I’ll conclude my brief diatribe on the infinite by writing this: it certainly takes a special level of “ignorance” (to put it as charitably as I can) to assign any level of significance to oneself, at all, in the face of facts as pictured in that photo, while also imagining there is no God.
They left the light on for me at the Motel 6.
The photo is upside-down.
The moon appears to be on the near side in relation to Earth. Does that sound correct?
I couldn’t disagree more.
Our significance is enormous for the very reason that God, the creator of the universe, loves us. Each of us.
I agree entirely.
My point was, that if someone imagines there is NO God, then there is simply no way they could reasonably believe they have any significance whatsoever, in the face of images such as in the OP.
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