Vermont Sun Dogs (Cloud Appreciation Society image)

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4. It is just So Good to know that people are still finding Beauty in this World

Image from Space Shuttle Discovery showing the afternoon sun over the Andes Mountains

In 1948, the British physicist Fred Hoyle wrote that “once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available… a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose”. For millennia, human beings could only imagine what the Earth might look like seen from the viewpoint of the heavens. Some ancient Greek philosophers had suspected that the Earth was probably a sphere. Plato even thought that the Earth might be a brightly coloured sphere – but, being Plato, he had in mind a Platonic ideal of the Earth rather than the Earth itself. By the second century AD, the astronomer Ptolemy knew from scientific considerations – by observation and measurement – that the Earth is, indeed, round. But knowing is not the same as seeing...

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/earth-from-space-how-photos-photographs-planet/

We need to keep seeing!