¶ Spaceship Earth
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Spaceship Earth:
"Though brilliantly theorized to be so several thousand years earlier, it is only for the last 500 years that we humans have had proven to us by Magellan’s circumnavigation that we indeed are dwelling aboard a spherical planet. It is only for five years that, having ‘seen ourselves as others see us’ from humans-on-the-Moon advantage, that we are beginning to realize that we are indeed living on a once superbly-equipped spherical spaceship and that we are a space program.
“Despite our considerable resource of present-day theoretical knowledge, all humans continue to reflex in the manner to which they have been powerfully conditioned throughout millions of misconceptioning years. As a consequence, even today we all seem to see the Sun rising and sinking, think in terms of ‘up’ and ‘down’, ‘wide, wide world’, the four corners of the Earth’, and our ‘air space’, which misconceptions have no correspondence with the realities of Universe.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Address to MENSA International, Chicago, IL, 22 Jun’74
