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| A visitor from the Oort Cloud London, ON October 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Not because the resulting photo would be somehow epic. With everyone else on Planet Earth pointing their lenses toward the darkened sky, it’s not as if my pic would somehow stand out.
But that wasn’t the goal at all.
The only thing that mattered was taking time out from life to go looking for it. To turn to the heavens in wonder and ponder the life cycle of something that won’t return this way for 80,000 years - assuming it doesn’t get kicked out of the solar system for good after it turns away from the Sun.
Ultimately it’s a ball of dirty ice flying through deep space. We walk right on past dirty ice discarded out the back of local arenas, so maybe it’s a context thing. Indeed, the rarity of these celestial visitors makes them the stuff of dreams for those of us stuck on Earth.
We all need things to wonder about, moments of joy, inflection points we’ll remember for the rest of our lives.
Lying in the wet grass under a darkened sky, it was easy to understand why I was out there.
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