Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.
-Dalai Lama XIV
“We are concerned here with AN ACT OF HUMANITY with the maintaining of cultural values and not least with a measure of considerable political importance. The effect upon all nations…of the fate of these innocent people so maliciously persecuted must not be underestimated. To leave these victims to their misery would be a heavy blow to all those who believe in human solidarity and would enclourage those who believe only in force and oppression and who act accordingly”
-Albert Einstein; on the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan. The uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. The blast wave shattered windows for a distance of ten miles and was felt as far away as 37 miles. Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke. The co-pilot, Captain Robert Lewis, commented, “My God, what have we done?”
The Lunar Orbiter I took this first ever photo of the Earth from the vicinity of the moon on August 23, 1966.
Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson to host the new “Cosmos” series.
Three decades after Carl Sagan’s original “Cosmos,” a new version is heading for the Fox TV network in 2013. One of the biggest surprises apparently has to do with the guy who helped get the series green-lighted by Fox: Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy,” a Fox cartoon sitcom that The New York Times calls, ahem, “bawdy and irreverent.” But it shouldn’t be all that surprising. “Family Guy” has been known to poke fun at scientists as well as the scientifically challenged, and because he was born in 1973, MacFarlane was at the perfect age to start drinking in Sagan’s wisdom when the original “Cosmos” appeared in 1980.
#The Cosmos #Neil deGrasse Tyson #Seth MacFarlane #Carl Sagan #LT #Very Excited About This.
