Heaven Holds a Sense of Wonder
Things have been a bit slow at work today and as I turned to my RSS, I came across this somewhat disturbing post on Graphics Engine which discusses a currently popular YouTube clip depicting Earth’s encounter with an asteroid and the fun results set to the music of Pink Floyd. The clip is as mesmerising as it is terrifying and I felt compelled to watch it right to the end despite its horror.
Then turning back to my RSS, I clicked to an old favourite, Astronomy Picture of the Day, with a small amount of trepidation but their post today had no nihilist doom and gloom, in fact it was a homage to the joy and wonder of the art of looking up. Today’s picture was actually a video clip featuring beautiful time lapse photography of sunsets and moon rises. The stuff that fills us with a sense of awe and makes us wonder at our place in the universe. In the context of the previous clip, it came also as a reminder of how lucky we are to be here: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, feeling, experiencing and living life.
[tags]astronomy, life[/tags]
