RE: Transit of Mercury ~ 11 November 2019

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I saw the picture flipping back and forth ...no Mercury...no speck in my eye or your GiF., lol. Don't know why we want to observe things for ourselves when NASA handles these things quite well, but it caused me to think of the folly of sending human beings to Mars or beyond when the risk-benefit ratio favours using robotics. Isn't that what the aliens do?- they certainly don't risk cosmic radiation and micro-particle collision for the pride of transporting their flesh to distant worlds :) Yeah, tall grays or large headed dwarfs are robots for sure because, face it- if they were organic they'd surely look like us ha ha.



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Ah, the speck is faint... you may need to zoom in on the lower right corner, particularly if you're looking on a hand-held...

I know why I want to observe things for myself... For the experience. For the view.

Why do you walk in the rain? Why stand on the seashore? Surely you could send a surrogate, your proxy to tell you about the wind in your hair? No?

Folly? Then I am a fool. I want to go to Mars, personally in my own flesh. I want to plumb the depths of the lava tubes in the flank of Olympus Mons, and see for my self what mysteries lie within, risk-benefit ratio be damned.

😄😇😉

@creatr

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Thanks, my friend, but yes, there is a difference between being out in the air which is free and spending billions so a human can risk life and limb to perform a task a machine can do better :)

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Oh, I think you know, John, that I am absolutely opposed to the forced "spending of billions" for such a task... Robbery, no matter if prettied up by calling it "taxation" or "your fair share," is an utterly evil way to fund such efforts, even those performed by machines.

What I'm talking about is voluntary.

More to the point, no machine can see for me or experience for me, much as I may enjoy poring over the pictures they send back. I might as well be a brain in a box, unable to touch, feel, or smell...

And you can rest assured I'll not be holding a gun to your head to make you pay for my trip to Mars... ;) It shall be my billions, and my risk, all engaged in under my own volition.

Have you ever read C.S. Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet?" The first in his "space trilogy," highly recommended. That is the flavor of the human adventure I crave. I will of course invite you to come along, but I will not compel you. ;)

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When you get to the point of spending your billions, my friend, throw a few pesos my way, for friendship's sake, lol

I'll look at Lewis' book :)

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When I have access to those billions, my friend, it will all be part of the Commonwealth of Glory—a.k.a. our joint inheritance with Christ—and thus you will be my fellow billionaire...

Make that trillions... No, actually, we will have literally unimaginable wealth at our disposal, wealth that will give us the liberty to do and become whatever we aspire to.

All by the grace of King Jesus.

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