{"id":372,"date":"2012-11-22T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/11\/22\/the-cultural-importance-of-off-earth-settlement\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:44:39","slug":"the-cultural-importance-of-off-earth-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/11\/22\/the-cultural-importance-of-off-earth-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Importance of Off-Earth Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-r2U4GvRIHCI\/UK6E3-I954I\/AAAAAAAALcQ\/6My_jFGG9is\/s1600\/337818main_road2apollo-11_full.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-r2U4GvRIHCI\/UK6E3-I954I\/AAAAAAAALcQ\/6My_jFGG9is\/s640\/337818main_road2apollo-11_full.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of seeing the Earth from the moon created a planetary level consciousness that didn&#8217;t exist before. The simple fact is that, when you live and work on another world &#8211; when you have people who live and work on another world &#8211; it is going to create changes whose real effect we cannot predict right now. No one would have predicted by going to the moon we would have a whole new appreciation for the fragility of the Earth &#8211; simply because of its appearance over a stark barren landscape in the blackness of space. Now that was one picture. Now think of how our societal consciousness will change, when you actually have a whole community of people living on another world. And I think it will change, it will have an effect &#8211; it will probably have an effects that we can&#8217;t fully predict right now. But there&#8217;s no doubt that it will have a profound effect on the consciousness of humanity on this planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Spudis<\/p>\n<p><span>Image: On August 23, 1966, just as Lunar Orbiter I was about to pass behind the moon, mission controllers executed an unplanned maneuver to point the camera away from the lunar surface and toward Earth. The result was the world&#8217;s first view of Earth from space. The photograph was called &#8220;the picture of the century.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The idea of seeing the Earth from the moon created a planetary level consciousness that didn&#8217;t exist before. The simple fact is that, when you live and work on another world &#8211; when you have people who live and work on another world &#8211; it is going to create changes whose real effect we cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,13,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-spudis","category-philosophy","category-transcripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}