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Environment & Energy

Silver Gaia

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7. I remember it.

Reply to tecelote (Original post)

Sat Dec 8, 2018, 09:19 AM

Dec 2018

I've talked to students about it in terms of what religion/spirituality might be like in the future. It's pretty mindbending when you think of it... until that photo, in all of human existence, we had never actually SEEN the planet, our home. It changed us. I know it changed me. She's so beautiful, so fragile, it takes my breath away.

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How The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet [View all] tecelote Dec 2018 OP

The earth is round? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #1

No it ain't. Look at the bottom of the picture. It's fuckin' flat. 3Hotdogs Dec 2018 #5

That was the bottom of the picture? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #6

Yes, wow. I remember the wonder of it. mountain grammy Dec 2018 #2

I was 17, and that photo carried me away The_jackalope Dec 2018 #3

I so remember the Apollo 8 broadcast on Christmas eve rsdsharp Dec 2018 #4

I remember it. Silver Gaia Dec 2018 #7