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Post by Blarney Rubble on Dec 2, 2013 4:46:31 GMT -5
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mike
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Post by mike on Dec 2, 2013 13:23:45 GMT -5
One astronaut described what happened to them as a cognitive shift. Knowing all the scientific facts about what they would see before they saw it is not like actually seeing it. For instance, knowing the Earth floats in a void under the influence of gravity is not the same as seeing it surrounded by blackness.
Perhaps this is like the difference between reading a musical score before you have ever heard the piece performed and actually hearing it performed.
Whenever I look at images of the Earth from space my immediate reaction is how thin the atmosphere looks. One astronaut referred to it as a thin line barely hugging the surface, extremely fragile. Indeed, we live beneath this thin line and we have nowhere else to go if we mess it up.
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Post by raybar on Dec 3, 2013 9:53:19 GMT -5
Perhaps this is like the difference between reading a musical score before you have ever heard the piece performed and actually hearing it performed. For me this was the difference between reading Shakespeare and seeing a performance. Reading the plays in high school was such a chore, but seeing them on stage ... let's just say it changed my whole perspective. |
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