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See Like Cicero

After last year’s National Academy, we shared Cicero’s View from 100,000 Miles. He will make his more formal appearance at this year’s National Academy in the morning. Found this video on the Hayden Planetarium’s site and it provides all the perspective to think like Cicero. To think big… and small!

Cicero’s View from 100,000 Miles

How is the first picture of Earth from space the most powerful political picture ever published? Marking the 40th anniversary of the famous picture, a British newspaper, The Independent, remarked that the three astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission “went to the moon, but ended up discovering the Earth.” The British cosmologist, Sir Fred Hoyle, [...]