Re: Total solar eclipse to be seen across the U.S.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:16 pm
In an interview with Newsweek last month, Bill Nye spoke about the
forthcoming eclipse and how these events are hugely special as they
help us consider fundamental questions about life, such as where we
came from and if we are alone in the universe.
“If you want to understand where we came from, you have to understand
space. And the eclipse is an amazing event that helps anyone understand
that we live on a sphere with a moon and a sun and other planets, and
we are part of this extraordinary larger whole that you could call
creation or the cosmos. It’s something that gets me every single day
of my life. Every day I marvel at the insight that we are made of the
same stuff, the same dust, as the stars. We are made of stardust. If
you say: what’s the meaning of life? I’m not sure, but it has to do
with being part of the cosmos."
“The eclipse is a moment that reminds us all in just a few minutes of
our extraordinary place in space on this sphere covered with liquid
water, with a moon tidally locked, in orbit around the sun. We can
predict these events within less than a second, because we understand
the mathematics of the universe so well. And we’re just some humble
species wandering around on the outskirts of a regular galaxy. We’re
no big deal, yet we can understand it all, and that to me is wonderful
and amazing, and the eclipse to me is part of that.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/last-ever-to ... 30476.html
forthcoming eclipse and how these events are hugely special as they
help us consider fundamental questions about life, such as where we
came from and if we are alone in the universe.
“If you want to understand where we came from, you have to understand
space. And the eclipse is an amazing event that helps anyone understand
that we live on a sphere with a moon and a sun and other planets, and
we are part of this extraordinary larger whole that you could call
creation or the cosmos. It’s something that gets me every single day
of my life. Every day I marvel at the insight that we are made of the
same stuff, the same dust, as the stars. We are made of stardust. If
you say: what’s the meaning of life? I’m not sure, but it has to do
with being part of the cosmos."
“The eclipse is a moment that reminds us all in just a few minutes of
our extraordinary place in space on this sphere covered with liquid
water, with a moon tidally locked, in orbit around the sun. We can
predict these events within less than a second, because we understand
the mathematics of the universe so well. And we’re just some humble
species wandering around on the outskirts of a regular galaxy. We’re
no big deal, yet we can understand it all, and that to me is wonderful
and amazing, and the eclipse to me is part of that.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/last-ever-to ... 30476.html