A human experience hardly cant get better than this when it comes to these scales. gracias for articulating such an overwhelming feeling of love and belonging dearest brother David! [This by the way, was the source of pages 16-18 in Carl Sagans Contact novel! :-) ] We were on the flank of Mauna Kea in a spot where you can see the ocean to the East and the West, watching the sun set into the ocean 10,000 feet below, and watching for the green flash. Someone mentioned that it was a full Moon. So, I turned and caught the Moon just rising out of the ocean directly opposite the setting Sun. I could see both on the horizon at the same time! All of a sudden I had a powerful, visceral feeling of the Sun and Moon as stationary points in space, and the Earth below me, inconstant and turning. I was the fool on the hill, no longer seeing the Sun going down, but instead feeling the world spinning round. It was the diagram we always draw to explain the “illusion” of a sunset, but right then the illusion reversed and I was there, feeling it spin. A moment of truth. Literally, a moving experience. I nearly fell over. Then I did fall over, laughing with joy.-- David Grinspoon :-D The whole interview here: blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2014/03/carl-sagan-imagination-science-and-mentorship-an-interview-with-david-grinspoon/ merci for the source beloved Franck Marchis! :-)
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:30:11 +0000
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