These are troubled times, to put it very mildly. But perhaps it is especially important in such times to take a larger, more optimistic view of things. Last month, the Artemis II mission took humans further away from Earth than they had ever been before and launched humanity onto the next stage of becoming an interplanetary species. Whatever horrors might be happening on Earth, and whatever cynical view some might take of space exploration, the images from Artemis are truly beautiful—and, yes, inspiring. Thus it is that the astonishing photo of ‘Earthset’ is our latest featured image.
From Samuel McKee’s recent article on optimistic futurism, which you can read in full here:
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