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Related: About this forumHow The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet
Oh, my God, he said. Heres the Earth coming up.
Crew member Bill Anders turned the camera away from its lunar chores and pointed it homeward, snapping what may be the most iconic image ever taken. Borman said later that it was the most beautiful, heart-catching sight of my life, one that sent a torrent of nostalgia, of sheer homesickness, surging through me. It was the only thing in space that had any color to it. Everything else was simply black or white. But not the Earth.
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)It looks so small.
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)Don't let the lyin' lib'rils fool with your head. It's fuckin' flat. Or at least, half-flat.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I thought it was the top,
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)The moment I saw it I became a whole-system ecologist.
rsdsharp
(9,167 posts)with Frank Borman reading from the book of Genesis. It was magical.
That was the last Christmas eve of my father's life. He had cancer and died just over three months later. I'll never forget.
Silver Gaia
(4,544 posts)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.