Tritiac t1_j62u7d1 wrote
Reply to comment by shotsfired3841 in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
> I will make one more observation - if I'd been born in space I know I would desire to visit the beautiful Earth more than I've ever yearned to visit to space. It is a wonderful planet.
This is something that I think too many of us get lost in because Earth is all we will ever know--there will never be a more perfect place for us. It isn't out there far away in space, it's right here.
Anderopolis t1_j62x23n wrote
See it like growing up, as a Kid we are unseprable from our mom, but as we grow it we move on.
We still love our mom, and we will visits, and make phone calls, but one day, without really noticing, 'Home' becomes where we are, not where we came from.
Earth will always be special to us, but that does not mean we can't or shouldn't grow beyond her.
chaotic----neutral t1_j63bzrh wrote
Well, no. What they're saying is the exact opposite of that. Once we lose this place, we will yearn for it. It will forever be the only place we truly call home; our cradle. We're in the process of changing it irreversibly. The greatest tragedy of human existence is never knowing, and appreciating, what we have until it is gone.
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