the earth from out there. It had a strange effect on them. If it had a big effect on them, it must have had one also on us, less obvious. They are figures and we are the ground, you see. In every sense. By the way, wonderful New Yorker joke. This guy says, “I’ve been through most of the places on this galaxy and earth makes the best popcorn.”
Forsdale: Russell Swickert, one of the astronauts, talks very eloquently about what it did to him when on a spacewalk— when he went extravehicular and he put up his thumb to his eye, looking down toward earth and he could blot it out just like that. It was that minuscule. And he said to himself out there wandering around in outer space, tied to an umbilical cord, “Wow.” And he also said to himself, as have a lot of other astronauts reported back, “What a delicate, fragile place we live on; what a delicate place that is. How
