[OSList] Perspectives from outer space

Suzanne Daigle sdaigle4 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 07:30:39 PDT 2014


Alan, what a gift to share this with us. I was mesmerized ... Takes wave
riding to a whole other level, to another stratosphere.

Thank you!
Suzanne
On Aug 12, 2014 9:34 AM, "Alan Stewart" <alan at multimindsolutions.com> wrote:

> G’day All
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> Here are items which resonated strongly with me and may do so with you
> too. In my case I had the good fortune to meet an Apollo astronaut in
> person, Charlie Duke, in the mid 70s. And have also circumvented our little
> planet, 3rd from the sun, several times – while at a lower height than
> outer space travellers.
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> I wonder if you also see that perspectives of ‘high fliers’ – see also my
> Conversare <http://conversare.net/?p=1566> blog post on this – have
> salience for our current times?  Perhaps particularly for those of us who
> hold space (co-create contexts) for conversations that matter among whoever
> comes?
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> This below (which I transcribed) is excerpted from an interview of Chris
> Hadfield, Canadian born astronaut, on *Late Night Live *(an Australian
> Radio National program*),* hosted by Phillip Adams on Wednesday 6 August
> 2014.
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> Chris is the author of *An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.*
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> http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/an-astronaut27s-guide-to-life3a-chris-hadfield/5653184
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> http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/08/lnl_20140806_2205.mp3
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> “… I was up (on the space station) for five months and it really gave time
> to think and time to look at the world, actually to steal 90 minutes at
> one point and just float  by the window and watch the world, go round the
> world once with nothing to do but ponder it.
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> And I think probably the biggest personal change was a loss of the sense
> of the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’.
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> It’s really we sort of teach it to our children, you know. Don’t talk to
> strangers, this is us. This is our whatever – our family, our house, our
> neighours, our relatives, your school.
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> It slowly grows where the line between us and them is. Um but to – I’ve
> been around the world thousands of times, 2, 593 times - and that line we
> impose on ourselves of where us ends and them starts, just keeps
> diminishing and it wasn’t conscious. I noticed maybe a third of the way
> into my half year stint up there that I just started referring to everybody
> as ‘us'. Unconsciously there was some sort of transition in my mind that
> ‘Hey, we’re all in this together.’
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> And I think you come across any city in Australia and you see the pattern
> of the downtown and the suburbs and the surrounding farms and the water and
> the rail and the communications, just the standard human pattern. And then
> if you just wait until you cross the Pacific – takes about 25 minutes and
> then you come across the Americas and there’s that exact same pattern
> again. And then you wait another 20 minutes and you come across northern
> Africa – and there’s that exact same pattern again.
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> And we solve the same problems the same way, all over the world. It’s just
> ‘us’ and everybody just wants some grace and better chances for their
> children and a chance to laugh, understand it all. And that inclusionary
> feeling was all pervasive and unavoidable, having seen the world the way
> I’ve seen it and it was part of my motivations in doing my best to share it
> when I came back.”
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> Looking forward
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> Go well
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> Alan
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> *Alan Stewart, PhD Social Artist Facilitator of conversations that matter
> and participatory fun Based in Adelaide and operating throughout
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