Comments on: Repost: The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: markedup2 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1439507 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:15:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1439507 I think you may be over-thinking the framing, but I appreciate it. I never knew it wasn’t originally framed “moon down”.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438109 Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:00:42 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438109 Ray Van Dune-
Excellent Story!

The Rentals (2020)
“Forgotten Astronaut,” A song for Michael Collins
https://youtu.be/GkfKujfyUlY
(4:43)

“They got names like superheroes, bigger than The Beatles, or I could ever be…”

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438080 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:41:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438080 I recall seeing a photo snapped from the Command Module by Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins, that included both the Earth and the Lunar Excursion Module containing astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin.

He labeled it something like “A photo containing every human being, except me.”

]]> By: Frank https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438060 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 14:24:10 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438060 Merry Christmas Bob. I enjoy and learn from your work.

]]> By: pawn https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438056 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:40:53 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438056 Carl Sagan summarizes my personal perspective on why I feel space exploration is so important.

It’s very hard to build an economic case.

It is, in it’s essence, a spiritual one.

]]> By: Jeff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438049 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:03:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438049 Ray Van Dune wrote: “Just out of curiosity, has anyone identified the cloud-occluded continental landmasses visible in the shot?”

If the time Ayers snapped the photograph is known, using this page could help identification. The link is set to noon Dec 24, 1968 in Houston. Scroll down to enter more precise time/date.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?month=12&day=24&year=1968&hour=12&min=00&sec=0&n=104&ntxt=Houston&earth=0

As shown, this would confirm the western coast of Africa and all of South America in sunlight.

Blair Ivey – Thanks for the Pale Blue Dot quote. One of my favorites.

Merry Christmas to all.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438029 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 06:25:19 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438029 “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

Carl Sagan

14 February 1990

The message transcends the speaker, as does the Message this Christmas.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438022 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 04:02:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438022 Apollo 8 Genesis Broadcast
December 24, 1968
https://youtu.be/y246QT8F5xc
22:20

]]> By: Jay https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438014 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:35:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438014 Bob,
You are correct. Looking at the high resolution photo on the NASA site, I can see Africa on the right and parts of South America on the left. Hard to tell if those are clouds over Antarctica or Antarctica itself or probably both!

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1438005 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:46:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1438005 In reply to Ray Van Dune.

Ray Van Dune: I am sure someone has. I might have figured this out years ago but don’t remember. In looking at my hi-res version of the Earthrise image, my guess is the brown continent in the upper right near the terminator is the western half of Africa, with South America to the lower left.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1437998 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:39:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1437998 Just out of curiosity, has anyone identified the cloud-occluded continental landmasses visible in the shot?

]]> By: Allan https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/repost-the-real-meaning-of-the-apollo-8-earthrise-image-2/#comment-1437990 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:19:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101366#comment-1437990 And Merry Christmas to you, Mr. Zimmerman:

Help! I am being taken in by the ‘We never went to the moon’ debate.
All this about the Van Allan belt, the shadows and the lighting, the strange behavior of some of the astronauts and things they have said, the missing archives, we haven’t been back since, and the size of the rover wouldn’t fit in the Eagle. The last I saw was Putin being briefed, by experts with illustrations, that we didn’t go.
Could the stunning photo above been taken by an unmanned craft?
I’m pretty sure about the grassy knoll. Now I am to wonder about a studio production of moon landings like the one comically part of the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds are Forever, about 59 minutes into the movie.

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