Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for December 09, 2013
December 06, 2013
December 13, 2013
Transcript:
It suddenly struck me that, that tiny pea, pretty and blue was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. -Neil Armstrong 1930-2012
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Gotta miss you, Neil. {salute}
T_Lexi over 10 years ago
Awwww…
Darwinskeeper over 10 years ago
A reminder of how small we are or a reminder of how big the universe is?
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 10 years ago
Somehow this brings me back to Horton the elephant and that microscopic community
Ushindi over 10 years ago
What an amazing feeling that must be, to stand on a moon and see your entire home planet, far away.
Michelle Morris over 10 years ago
That’s a keeper!
Richard V Anderson over 10 years ago
Zeus! I feel so fortunate to have discovered this comic. Each Monday something new and amazing arrives on my computer’s display. Thanks a million, Gavin.
dogday Premium Member over 10 years ago
It’s interesting that everyone comments on the beauty of the planet. I spent a lot of time one day looking at NASA’s Picture of the Day, spectacular pictures of the awe-inspiring power, beauty, size, and did I mention POWER of the universe. But then all of a sudden pictures of earth settings came up — forests, rivers, waterfalls. I was almost knocked out of my chair by its special, human-sized beauty which, unlike the other, overpoweringly spoke of LIFE. Life just teeming everywhere and I had such a feeling of being part of this world, and being sheltered from all the frightening grandeur outside the blue marble.
Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago
Does anyone remember them reading from Genesis while recording “earth rise”. It was on a Christmas eve flight. Apollo 8Under Google. “The Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast”Anders, Lovell, Borman
LittleCatFeet over 10 years ago
How fortunate for those who do remember 1969 that they have seen a time when mankind did not feel that all of the magnitude and wonder of Space could fit within two pages of a magazine. Like everything here on Earth, the cosmos are now just another domain of ‘people’.