The following is a wonderful video updating the Voyager 1 and 2's travels through and out of our solar system. It's said that both aircrafts after being sent out into space to record samples in photos and videos after 30 years, might continue to do so until somewhere around 2025. Once the aircrafts lose track of the sun's light, its ability to continue sending out data will end.
How magnificent that we on earth have been able to get to the point where we can create so much technology in order to continue studying beyond our world this way. So much more has been learned about space and our earth because of these unmanned aircrafts that were sent out into space over 3 decades ago.
This forces us to think about what's going on beyond our world while we live our daily routines of life here on earth. Yet, for centuries we've been able to look up into ETERNITY and wonder in amazement. Just from earth alone, on any clear night, you can see the amazing vastness of the stars, and now with the data of the Voyagers, so much more!
This also represents an age on the earth when we as humans had the "ability" to study and probe deeper out into space. These abilities themselves are blessings that didn't exist but for that time in our prosperity. So the blessings are not just in the advancements in intelligence, sciences and technologies, but also in the economic progress to be able to support the costs of this research. Many things have to come together in order for a civilization to even gain more knowledge of itself. And I submit, that by the grace of God Himself, Creator of the Universe and the Earth, that time had come for us.
But will it continue?
Can we continue to create and advance in the trajectory that we've been on for the good of humankind?
The Bible actually says that "knowledge will increase in the last days" (Daniel 12:4). Perhaps that's speaking of all the advancements that have taken place in the last 100 years.
I believe advancement is and has been a blessing from God. What we as a people do with these advancements, is up to us. These advancements can help us move further or it can hurt us. I believe there's a reason why knowledge increases at various times during the coarse of our existence and I believe it's tied- in with God's ultimate plan for us.
Only through prosperity can we catapult our knowledge from one level to another. These advancements could not happen unless there is prosperity and growing resources to sustain them. By and large, it was America who has lead these major advancements in knowledge and research. And I believe a distinct opportunity was allowed for us to be able to lead the rest of the world in knowledge.
But will America continue to lead or even stay in the running within the next decades? Have things changed so much within our infrastructure of leadership and education that will allow us to continue a trajectory into the next decades of increased knowledge?
I believe this has a lot to do with the standing of our government of ourselves first; as a template. We have to know who we are as humans in order to continue to probe outward with any real significance. It takes humility of self to find awe outside of self, and with no humility, you can't appreciate what's in front of you. And so how can we study that which we can't appreciate?
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Psalm 19
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord , my rock and my redeemer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-P8mkGLS4
