Here and There

No, not the kind taken by me. Unfortunately.

The NASA rovers are going crazy over at Earth’s outbound neighbor, and they’re sending back more of those grainy, sometimes color-separated, always-pasted-together photos of the planet’s lifeless, dry landscape.

Of course, this kind of event brings out the super-geek in me. I just think it’s astounding, given the day-to-day failings I see in people all around me (myself included), that humans could acquire the technology to propel something millions of miles to another planet, landing that thing on that planet, through its less-than-friendly atmosphere, and then having that thing move around on the hostile surface. The fact that we can see what the land-crawlers see is nearly beyond belief.

…Somewhat unrelated, and owed simply to the fact that I was looking up info on this point, I just learned that our entire solar system, dwarf planets, kuiper belts, asteroids and all, revolves around the center of the Milky Way.

It’s all the more reason to see the sound argument of the macrocosm and microcosm.

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