The great blue ball

The Space Station captured the far side of the moon.

And then the 2 American astronauts came home in the Dragon capsule and landed in the Gulf of Mexico. I watched spellbound for several hours.

The capsule had been bobbing in the water about half an hour, then was hauled by cables onto the small vessel to take it to land. There had been a lot of interested smaller boats belonging to private citizens and maybe reporters, circling around and then sometimes zooming in closer. Apparently they were somehow managed to stay at a greater distance, but they still remained there.

I waited about half an hour more, hoping they'd be opening the door...but they kept finding some kind of gas fumes around the outside (that's what they said, with some letters like MBCDT though not those) to define what it was. Something to do with the booster rockets or the things that sent the various parachutes out to slow down the capsule before it hit the water.

I guess I reached my limit of sitting and watching a TV reality show. But I did like that it was "real time."

Today's quote:

Buckminster Fuller defines a Sphere as “a multiplicity of discrete events, approximately equidistant in all directions from a Nuclear Center.

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning top, we have understood that reality is not what it seems: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

But the leap made by Einstein is unparalleled: spacetime is a field; the world is made only of fields and particles; space and time are not something else, something different from the rest of nature: they are just a field among the others.
—Carlo Rovelli Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
as posted in Love is a Place