Viewing Earth from the perspective of a tiny fragile globe hurling through space humbles and inspires all at once - but makes flag waving and joining in difficult. And so from age 10 on things got difficult. I mean if you're paying attention, even just a little, how can you not be angry? But how also can you not be inspired and awed.
And so I write. By Charlie Phillips
Sunday, December 11, 2022
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The Artemis spacecraft just recently reentered earth's atmosphere traveling at 25,000 miles per hour. That's one trip around the entire earth every hour.
That's 6.9 miles per second. Pretty fast. 13.4 times faster than a bullet.
Traveling at 25,000 mph it would take Artemis 115,000 years to get to the nearest star 4.3 light years away.
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