Observation by William Shatner

[New World Explorer]

Astronauts have for decades described their trips to space as “breathtaking” and humbling, a reminder of the Earth’s fragility and humanity’s need to serve as stewards of our home planet.

Actor William Shatner, who joined a suborbital space tourism flight last year, experienced the same phenomenon, but he had a very distinct observation when he turned his gaze from the Earth to black expanse of the cosmos: “All I saw was death,” he wrote in a new book.

Shatner’s biography, called “Boldly Go,” which he co-wrote with TV and film writer Joshua Brandon, is filled with similarly grim anecdotes about Shatner’s experience bolting above the Earth’s atmosphere aboard a real-life rocket after his memorable stint playing a spaceship captain on the 1960s TV show “Star Trek” and several franchise movies in the following decades.

“I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her,” reads an excerpt from “Boldly Go” that was first published by Variety.

“Everything I had thought was wrong,” it reads. “Everything I had expected to see was wrong.”

While he had expected to be awed at the vision of the cosmos, seen without the filter of the Earth’s atmosphere, he instead became overwhelmed by the idea that humans are slowly destroying our home planet. He felt one of the strongest feelings of grief he’s ever encountered, Shatner wrote.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/10/business/william-shatner-new-book-boldly-go-scn/index.html

 

 

Greg - without Jehovah's Kingdom humans would eventually made this beautiful planet inhabitable 

[Pabo]

Here is a short video from those who did have the opportunity to go into space.

 

[just1-4all]

Being a huge sci-fi fan having grown up watching Star Trek and other sci-fi films/TV series, I was so moved by seeing William Shatner moved by that experience. And he's remarkably spry at 91 yrs old.

[Tia]

Brother Jason,

I truly enjoy this small clip over and over again and I thank you for sharing! 

[Dages]

On 10/14/2022 at 7:16 AM, Pabo said:

Here is a short video from those who did have the opportunity to go into space.

 

Jehovah, I want to go into space in Paradise, please