View From a Spaceship

Amidst all of the noise surrounding the Ukraine and the celebrations of D-Day there was a spaceship launched which had a 3 man crew: A German; A Russian; and An American.  In interviews with the three none of them ever mentioned any of the geopolitical manoeuvring taking place on planet earth but rather focused on the tasks at hand as they flew to their space station.

And yet the German, on German TV did make a bizarrely political statement that I don't believe has been picked up by the media at large.

He spoke of how huge space was.  That it just stretched and stretched in every direction into a vast darkness.  And he spoke of how beautiful the earth was.  Full of colour in an otherwise black and white environment.  He noted that it was simply incomprehensible that the atmosphere surrounding the earth was all that separated our bright colourful planet from the emptiness of space. 

And then, in a voice that started to crack, he said how horribly thin that barrier to survival was, and that whatever our differences on earth might be, we are all in this together and there is a very thin line between all of us, and the great void of space.