Sheril reminds us that it is 40 years to the day that this photograph was taken (by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission), and invites us to ponder how much has happened to and on it over the last 40, and how it might be in 2048. A good end of year meditation.
Happy Holidays to all!
[Update: A very good NPR piece on the mission and the photo is here, with audio and partial transcript.]
-cvj
I love that photo so much that I bought a poster of it and it’s on my wall at work. Earthrise.
Merry Christmas Bee!!!
Hi Clifford,
Just dropped in to wish you a merry Christmas!
Best,
B.
Lets not forget that it was Fred Hoyle who predicted in 1948 that the first photographs of our Earth from space would have a huge impact on
human consciousness.
Forty years and now NASA says it is going to outsource its operations. Wow. My fondest memory of this came a few month later, when Stewart Brand put the image on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog. It became extraordinarily difficult to think of the planet as anything other than a singular biome, traveling across space and time. Some of us began to take much better care of it than our peers.