[The Louiswu]

I think what the author is trying to say is that true “Earth Like” planets are rare, and are so far away as to be little more than curiosities to us here on Terra Firma.

while I whole heartedly applaud searching the heavens, exploring Gods creation in depth and detail, it is wise to understand that for the foreseeable future and possibly forever we are more or less trapped on this Earth and within this solar system and we’d better find away to take care of what we’ve got and to get along with all the other residents of this little blue marble.

[21twelve]

“...of this little blue marble.”

The astronaut that took that famous photo of earth while he orbited the moon recently crashed his airplane in the Seattle area (he was 80-something years old).

The photo was an interesting story. He was taking photos of the moon and then the earth came into view. They were all amazed, and really caught off guard. He grabbed a different camera with color film and was able to get the photo.

He said how they had done all of this planning and stuff to take photos of the moon (for future landing sites), and never even thought of the earth - and that ended up being the most important photo of the trip. (Was a huge factor in the environmental movement).

[telescope115]

Well said!