First step is ending with Atlantis

In 1962 a young vibrant President of the United States made a pledge that lifted our eyes toward the heavens in ways that we never considered. Not only did he say that America would go to the moon within the decade but he opened space travel for the first time.

Space Travel........leads to planet hopping which leads to alternative places to live long after our sun ceases to exist....which means the human species will forever be a part of the universe.

THE JUMP FROM ONE TRIP TO THE MOON TO LIVING IN ANOTHER GALAXY, ON ANOTHER PLANET, IS A HUGE JUMP.....BUT IT'S THE JUMP THAT OUR IMAGINATIONS TOOK WHEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY MADE THAT PROMISE.

Every single person that has worked on the space program since 1962 has had a larger goal than simply going to the moon and circling the earth.

The goal of making sure the human species survives is a goal that should exist inside every human being on the planet. Maybe it just sits quietly inside a small chamber of a portion of the brain not being used on a regular basis. It's part of us and although practical matters, such as food, rent, sunblock and love take a much larger role in our awareness.....IT IS THERE.

THE SPACE SHUTTLE has been intricate to feeding that goal even though most of us have never had anything to do with it and 90% of the population has never even seen a launch in person.

Tomorrow at 7:26 PST, weather permitting, the last United States sponsored Space Shuttle......ATLANTIS....will blast off and an era will end.

Private enterprise will assume the responsibility of taking mankind to destinations far beyond our present reach. It might take 20 or 30 years but we will resume our quest to make sure that we have another place to call home before our sun literally bakes all of our liquid. By all practical matters we only have about a billion years left so we better keep busy.

I realize that as you try to figure out where to make dinner reservations all of this seems rather silly.

Which brings this thought process around to

NEO-ILLUMINATION # 22

"the universe has a system of order and chaos

the human experience is a tangent of that system

which both

establishes order

and

creates chaos

belief systems directly lead to chaos

acceptance with investigation and introspection creates more order

the mysteries of the universe will always outnumber the known realities

and chaos will forever exist

our job simply might be

to avoid

extinction"

ALL HAIL

ATLANTIS.......

Michael Timothy McAlevey on 7/7/11