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Beaming onto a Barbarous Land
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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five‐year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
Star Trek, Original Series

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Congratulations on the new library, because it is''t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you ‐ and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
Isaac Asimov

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double‐backwards‐somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: 'So long and thanks for all the fish. '
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2001 A Space Odyssey, Richard Strauss

Gustav Holst ‐The Planets, Edward Gardner, National Youth Orchestra

The Purple People Eater, Sheb Wooley

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::Pjsee16
09/25/21 11:08 PM GMT
It may be barbarous, or that may be just an imperialist attitude. Once kirk learns how to speak to their computer, he'll either come to understand it, convert it to better ways, or it'll blow itself up.
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Gratitude to the Ancient Instructors "What they undertook came to pass. All things hang like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass." W.B. Yeats
::corngrowth
09/26/21 9:10 AM GMT
John, you may have depicted a barbarous land, but your render is somewhat deceiving too because of the ingenious patterns and wonderful colors.
Thanks for another exciting 'space journey'. Thanks also for making the long travel time more pleasant with your quotes and music links!
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::tigger3
09/26/21 11:44 PM GMT
Oh my this is this ever dramatic, what a unique render this one is, kudos!
tigs=^..^=
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
::Nikoneer
10/01/21 9:40 PM GMT
This time I did read the quote by Carl Sagan, after studying your image, and, having read about Carl and his approach to science and humanity, understand that he would be disturbed to know that if we do not now throw everything we can into beating back climate change, this scene could someday, in the near future, be a close representation of our planet. Also, he would be horrified to realize that some political ^leaders^ are now debating the need. I believe that your abstract images, John, may start to lose some of their abstract character far too soon.

-nik
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.icedancer
10/08/21 3:30 PM GMT
Thanks for this amazing creation taking us through space
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