And in that hour, the residents of Tokyo ,
and Melbourne , and Fiji ,
and Denver and Mt.
Isa and countless other countries ‘round the Pacific stopped what they were
doing, looked up at the sky, and watched the white light of the moon grow red
and dim. The electricity and data kept flowing, the trains kept leaving, the
advertisements kept flashing, the mechanical metabolism of the metropolis
rumbled on unchecked, but for a brief moment, a short while, or a lazy hour,
the inhabitants put aside the clockwork of their lives, looked up, and saw a distant world pass through our
collective shadow.
I'm a geochemist. My main interest is in-situ mass spectrometry, but I have a soft spot in my heart for thermodynamics, poetry, drillers, trees, bicycles, and cosmochemistry.
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