Divisions between groups of human beings is something that has always concerned me. If we are to be truly humanitarian we must overcome the walls and boundaries of the boxes that we build around our precious systems of belief and our ideas of 'truth'.
This blog post from blogger astronaut ( bloggernaut) RON GARAN, founder of' 'FRAGILE OASIS', literally a blog from space as our astronauts transit around our planet in the International Space Station (ISS), caught my eye. The full article link is below...
BORDERS FROM SPACE
SEPT. 7, 2011
I have always said, “you can’t see any borders from space.” Apparently I was wrong.
On the evening of August 17, 2011, I “flew” to the Cupola, the windowed observatory of the International Space Station, to shoot some photographs for a time-lapse photography project I have been working on for Fragile Oasis.
Before beginning the sequence, I took some practice shots to verify camera settings. As I was about to delete them, something caught my eye. In one of the pictures, a very obvious illuminated line snaked across a large landmass for hundreds of miles.
Initially, I wrote it off as a strange exposure from moonlight reflecting on a river. But, I was intrigued and did some investigating, only to learn this was not a natural reflection at all. Rather....
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