Astronaut Michael Collins, on looking back at Earth from a great distance: "I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet f

Astronaut Michael Collins, on looking back at Earth from a great distance: "I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified façade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied." (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-164_Collins_statement.html http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-164_Collins_s...) These photos show the opposite. It's a vast universe out there; more humans need to see it...