Did you ever look at the moon and think, Henry VIII saw the moon,

[raccoon]

And going back further, the ancient Romans, and so on?

If you haven’t, give it a try.

I guess I got the idea from HG Wells. When the time traveler looks at the sky in the year 802701 and thinks of all the generations that have passed since his own time.

That was my favorite book for a long time.

[Siwsan]

1. I always think about who walked and rode through the London parks, and beyond, before me.

Parks that were royal hunting grounds. Who might have stood under the branches of some of the ancient trees.

One time I took a boat trip down the Thames to Hampton Court Palace. That was a REAL Henry VIII experience.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I have an ancestor who perhaps met Henry VIII

on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. But you know, courtiers at a Kings' Meetup are a dime a dozen, and if they remember they were there? It's like Woodstock. They just weren't.

I can't say the moon inspires me to such thoughts. But old genealogy records kind of juice my sense of history.

[Croney]

3. And a hundred generations from now, someone

may think of me.

[IronLionZion]

4. And they all died

the moon is killing people. Wake up sheeple!

[Pobeka]

12. OMG!

[empedocles]

5. I gave it a try. I thought of the moon, Henry VIII, and his move and

set up to Oxford University.

[For time perspective, The New College, at Oxford U, was founded in the 1300's.]

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. In bible school we looked at the stars and imagined the shepherds' wonder at the...

new bright one they saw.

And I sometimes think about the early Greeks and Romans (shepherds?) who came up with the fantastical names for what they saw in the constellations overhead. What were they smoking.

-FTC

p.s. I wanted to like The Time Machine, but the notion of the Morlocks eating the Eloy just creeped me out as a kid. Still does.

[lastlib]

7. I've seen 2001 and read the book.....

A major character in them is named "Moon-Watcher"......Three million years ago, our arboreal ancestors looked at it, and thought, "if only I could find a tree tall enough....."

[Delmette2.0]

8. This reminds me of a song sung by Neil Diamond "Done to Soon"

I can't figure out how to post a link. Perhaps a kind DUer can help out.

[mitch96]

9. I like Carl Sagan's comment about our "Pale Blue Dot"

"Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives," Sagan later wrote. "On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

The last picture NASA's Voyager1 space craft took was of us... 4 BILLION miles from us
The resulting image, with the Earth as a speck less than 0.12 pixels in size,
became known as "the pale blue dot."

[3Hotdogs]

10. Ha ha, ya can't see me.

I was hiding on the other side.

[mitch96]

11. Tag! you're it!!! nanny nanny boo boo....

my inner 12 yo came out all of a sudden ...
m

[panader0]

13. 'Under the Same Moon'. It's a very good movie about a young Mexican boy looking for his mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Same_Moon

[IrishEyes]

14. When I read an classic book, I think about the people who read it throughout history.

I remember seeing an exhibit that had some books in Thomas Jefferson's library. I saw a ancient book that I had read and thought of Jefferson reading the same words.

[VGNonly]

15. Ashes to ashes,

dust to dust but Keith Richards will still exist.

[KS Toronado]

16. I asked my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great

Grandparents Adam & Eve about the moon, they enjoyed watching it at full moon
while lying on their backs eating apples.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. He was looking at the moon, but ...

[malthaussen]

18. From time to time.

There are certain mental exercises one can do that tend in the direction of experiencing the Oneness of being. Thinking of how experiences like looking at the moon have been shared by, well, everybody since the Dawn of Time is one of them, if one is prepared to give up their mooring in the here and now and go drifting...

-- Mal

[Skittles]

19. I just think that everyone who ever lived on earth who could SEE saw the sun and moon and stars

yup

[wnylib]

20. When I look at the moon,

I think of the poem, "The Highwayman," especially when looking at the late October moon. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."

It is earth spaces that make me think of things like who walked here before. Seeing fossils in a creek bed makes me think of how different the climate was in the same area when the fossilized creatures were alive. Or, I look at the river that runs through my town and wonder about the settlers who were drawn here by the river, and the Native people who fished and lived here before that.