{"id":454,"date":"2011-09-25T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:46:09","slug":"those-are-my-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2011\/09\/25\/those-are-my-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Those are my stars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1222 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/stars.jpeg\" alt=\"stars\" width=\"265\" height=\"191\" \/>Calling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>: &#8220;if we could get our political leaders to have a summit meeting in space, life on Earth would be markedly different&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Evans reflects &#8220;during\u00a0a break in an all-day meeting of senior policymakers at the United Nations, on the subject of &#8216;global sustainability&#8217;. Know what? The room had no windows&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On this excellent snippet from and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaldashboard.org\/2011\/09\/20\/a-moment-of-perfect-cognitive-dissonance\/\">interview<\/a> with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery\u00a0two minutes, a picture of the Earth, Moon and Sun, and a 360 degree panorama of the heavens, appeared in the spacecraft window as I looked. And from my training in astronomy at Harvard and MIT, I realized that the matter in our universe was created in star systems, and thus the molecules in my body, and in the spacecraft, and in my partners\u2019 bodies were prototyped or manufacted in some ancient generation of stars. And I had the recognition that we\u2019re all part of the same stuff, we\u2019re all one. Now in modern quantum physics you\u2019d call that interconnectedness. It triggered this experience of saying wow, those are my stars, my body is connected to those stars. And it was accompanied by a deep ecstatic experience, which continued every time I looked out of the window, all the way home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling Virgin Galactic: &#8220;if we could get our political leaders to have a summit meeting in space, life on Earth would be markedly different&#8221; Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,16,8,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-astronomy","category-climate","category-science","category-social-change","category-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/stars.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-7k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}