By, John Burghardt

We tend to live our lives with a close focus to our immediate surrounding, a bit like watching your feet when you are learning to dance. You can get through the dance that way but you end up missing the magic and melodies of the world around you.

One of the distinct advantages of a complex society is that the efficiencies allow us the luxury of time and space to look up from our feet, beyond our personal food, shelter, safety and procreation issues and consider the world around us. In fact, we can truly look way beyond even the world around us for the first time in human history.

There is an inexplicably quiet revolution taking place in our (mankind’s) understanding of the universe around us. We have seen more and learned more about our universe in the last twenty years than every generation of explorers in all of recorded history combined. Very few of us are aware, but we are, for the first time, literally reaching out to the stars and beyond. We should all be part of this epic revolution. Take a chance and look through NASA’s picture of the day achieves and share the privilege of seeing what no other generation has ever seen.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

You’ll never really enjoy the dance until you learn to look up.