--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 10/29/06 8:08 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I wish I could get my visual system to read this > > kind of Hubble picture as a *photo*, of something > > that really exists, but it persists in reading > > them as more like paintings. I can't get the > > intellectual knowledge that they're photos to > > transfer to the part of my mind that tells me > > what I'm seeing. > > > Since I use them as a screen saver, and the picture keeps > changing, I sometimes just sit and contemplate them. I try > to get a sense of the time and distance scales and how > miniscule our individual lives and concerns are in the > big picture, which is the actual picture.
Yeah, me too, for just that reason, but it doesn't go beyond the intellect. That's what I was complaining about; I don't get it in my tummy, as it were. I can't relate the human scale to the cosmic scale. I can't get there from here. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
