How many people know that the Earth is round?
Stupid question. All of us do, of course.
Or, do we really? Think about it.
Is knowing by reading and watching images in a book - really knowing in its full potential, or is this only knowledge on an intellectual level, without the depth of the profound experience?
Well, self evidently this is only an intellectual second hand type of knowledge.
And yes, there seems to be a paramount difference in knowing the Earth is round by first hand experience.
To really be out there in orbit looking up at the shining bluegreen gem poised in the empty darkness…
This experience seems to change your way of looking at things, and change the way you look at the planet Earth itself.
Suddenly Earth has become what it really is, a thin fragile layer of life, shielded by an atmosphere no thicker than the peel on an apple.
When you look up at Earth poised there magnificiently above you, you suddenly understand what a gift it is just to be alive.
And you spontaneously wonder why so many people are hurrying around on its surface, being so occupied in petty things like greed and hatred.
Do they really know that the Earth is round?
I doubt it.
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I thought it might be more like an egg…
I have not been in space, but you can tell the shape of the planet when you are out at sea. It looks very nice, you can see the horizon curving across the water.
Also, on the tops of very tall mountains you can see this as well, so I’m sure some of the people that go on the water/mountains everyday know, along with the space people.
When I went to school they told us it was egg shaped, more like a pear than anything else.
But that was before anyone got a look at it from space and discovered it was round and round it is, more or less.
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