2 Responses to “Earth, as seen from Mars”

1. John Delphia Says:
   June 13th, 2008 at 10:05 am

   First thing that came to mind…

   “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
   century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
   intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
   men busied themselves about their various concerns they were
   scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a
   microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and
   multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to
   and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their
   assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the
   infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to
   the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of
   them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or
   improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of
   those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be
   other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to
   welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds
   that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish,
   intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with
   envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And
   early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.”

   - - H. G. Wells, The War Of The Worlds

2. bryan campen Says:
   June 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

   So that is us in the night sky, without any zoom? Would be phenomenal if that’s the case.