Why Moon? Planet Earth is also the same and it looks like a much more logical thing to compare. And Sun is also the same.

Yes, why what she said and not what you said? Why anything at all?

Reminds me Carl Sagan and A Pale Blue Dot

https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g

Earth changed a lot in 2000 years, the moon not so much.

Yes, but the Sun is still a better example:)

Meowth: We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of what's different... well, who knows.

Meh, you can't really see the sun, it's mostly just an undefined and incredibly bright blob in your peripheral vision. You can't see any shapes in it other than "circle". If you caught a glimpse of the recent partial solar eclipse in Europe, even when 80% was covered by the moon, it still looked like a perfect circle to the naked eye.

What makes it better? You can actually look at the moon, who's out there staring at the sun??

Ok. The Moon it is.

Being southern hemisphere, i've never seen "the man in the moon". But i see the rabbit and think of the Aztecs every time

All the time, it's such a beautiful idea.

And it's not even just a static view in the sky, because we've been there. The same moon that all of history looked up at is also the same moon that we've sent people to walk on. The most distant summit we've ever conquered.

Huh? When the Moon's overhead, you can look at it and rotate yourself to any direction to change the apparent orientation.

Shan't

The only thing that's changed about the moon is a handful of robots, some chunks of various materials left behind, and footprints. None of which are visible to our eyes.

Anyone reading this can travel for quite some time and not be able to find something that's remained undisturbed for several millennia.

There have probably been a couple of meteor impacts, too!

I'm positive there have been! The moon has done a very nice job of catching meteors over the eons. It gets pelted by space debris every time we get meteor showers.

But none large enough for us to notice with our eyes.

That's just lovely 😍

This is such a wholesome thread thanks everyone for sharing 💜

Yeah it makes me realize how short life is.

I think the same thing when I look at trees or hills or rocks or even older, human made masrony.

Those things have been there for many human life generations, and will be there for so many more.

Where I live, hiking is very popular, and it's standard to "leave no trace". Many people have been there before you, and many people will be there after. If you think you can leave your mark or that you're an exception, likely, it's only destruction of an otherwise nice thing. So people are encouraged to stay on the trail, not take shortcuts, etc.

I have a saying for myself that I've made recently, and it's that "We are all just visitors here." Sometimes it extends imagination and empathy to everything around us, even the inanimate objects like boulders. That random scraggly rock has seen many many people, most of the people pass by, some may build a relationship with the rock over their lives, but then they die and that relationship is entirely forgotten, the rock still a rock, maybe smaller, maybe more or less covered, maybe moved to a new location, but still there, watching us all pass by in our short stories, like a day's sunlight through a window across a room.

I think about it every year on October 7, which is the date the first photos of the far side of the moon were taken:

For probably the first time ever, living creatures saw the dark side of the moon.

It's also mostly the same moon that the first "stoned ape" looked at, presumably. ☝🏼

except with a few more bootprints on it

i wonder how many microorganisms have ended up surviving being flung out from the atmosphere such that they could theoretically have seen the far side of the moon if they had eyes..

Thank you for correctly calling it the far side of the moon and not the dark —

Damn.