{"id":8395,"date":"2022-11-03T01:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2022-11-03T01:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T08:29:29","slug":"rewind-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8395","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The election season is driving us crazy so this post deals with something remarkable thanks to the scientists at NASA. Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ahead-of-gravity-assist-nasas-lucy-spacecraft-captures-images-of-earth-and-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NASA's spacecraft Lucy sent back stunning photos of the Earth and the Moon (opens in a new tab)\">NASA&#8217;s spacecraft Lucy sent back stunning photos of the Earth and the Moon<\/a> from about a million miles and half a million miles away that reminds us how insignificant we are in the universe. It&#8217;s not the first to show the Earth and moon together but it&#8217;s probably one of the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re reposting a pic from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"July 26, 2013 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2722\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2013<\/a> when the Cassini spacecraft was still operational. That probe sent back an astonishing photo of the pale blue dot through Saturn&#8217;s rings. We thought it appropriate to add a little notation as a reality check to the denizens of planet Earth that God and all the other mythical gods were created on that insignificant speck by the species of animal known as <em>homo sapiens<\/em>. <strong>That&#8217;s right, folks: God didn&#8217;t create man; man created God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/godoriginearthpalebluedot.jpg\" alt=\"The people of Earth created God not the other way around\" class=\"wp-image-2728\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/godoriginearthpalebluedot.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/godoriginearthpalebluedot-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn sends a reality check to all religious people on the pale blue dot called Earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election season is driving us crazy so this post deals with something remarkable thanks to the scientists at NASA. Recently, NASA&#8217;s spacecraft Lucy sent back stunning photos of the Earth and the Moon from about a million miles and half a million miles away that reminds us how insignificant we are in the universe. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Reality Check&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,68,35],"tags":[755,754,860,756,252,494,70,319,1936,2401,752,751,98,1394,188,753,750,730,749,757,545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}