There Is No Up and Down in Universe
There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist.
from Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller
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Theme: “Am I Right Side Up or Upside Down?”
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A Lonely Speck in the Great Enveloping Cosmic Dark
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Is There a Problem with the Earth’s Gravitational Pull?
Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth’s gravitational pull?
Source: Back to the Future
The Centre of the World Was Not a Position of Honor
But the actual tendency of the geocentric system was, for the medieval mind, precisely the opposite. For the centre of the world was not a position of honor; it was rather the place farthest removed from the Empyrean, the bottom...
Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Human Beings Literally Lost the Ground of Their View
There are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this...
Source: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
The Earth May Now Be a Mere Planet Moving Around the Sun
The earth may now be a mere planet moving around the sun, but man is no longer confined to it. His spiritual energy, his reason, his brain power, his psyche, his consciousness have become the center and the purpose of...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
To Remove Man From the Centre of Things Was To Raise Him From His Low Estate
And the one change of this kind implied by the abandonment of the geocentric system was, as is evident from what has already been said, the reverse of that often attributed to the new astronomy; to remove man from the...
Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Man on the Moon Viewing the Earth Was in the Service of the Copernican Hypothesis
Moon voyages became popular in the 1630s, their underlying inspiration Galileo’s telescope and the curiosity it piqued about the planet; but the way of reaching the new world on the moon was more important than the substance of an ideal...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
It Is Probably a Sphere
Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
All of a Sudden, Proved to Be a Sphere
The first of these schemes derives from the fact that the generally accepted "flat earth" was, all of a sudden, proved to be a sphere by the voyage of Magellan's ships around the world.
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
There Is No Up and Down in Universe
If you, the reader of these lines, personally use the words up and down, you, too, are as yet imprisoned in the Dark Ages. There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth; what may appear to be parallel...
Source: Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller
The Earth Must Be Stationary
First, the Greeks expected that if the Earth moved then we would feel a constant wind blowing against us, and we would be swept off our feet as the ground raced from under us. However, we feel no such constant...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Somehow Glued to It by Gravity
While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
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You Start to See the World a Little Differently
You start to see the world a little differently when you turn it upside down
Source: Upside Down (Paloma Faith) by Paloma Faith
Just Knowing That the World Is Round
It's crazy, I'm thinking - Just knowing that the world is round - And here I'm dancing on the ground - Am I right side up or upside down? And is this real, or am I dreaming?
Source: Crush by Dave Matthews Band
Look Up, Look Down, All Around
Look up, look down, all around
Source: Satellite by Dave Matthews Band
You Were Looking Down on Me, Lost Out in Space
Last time I talked to you, you were lonely and out of place - You were looking down on me, lost out in space
Source: Somewhere Out There by Our Lady Peace
Because You’re Upside Down and Inside Out
Because you're upside down and inside out and you can feel it
Source: Upside Down & Inside Out by OK Go
Space Guy Fell From the Sky
Space guy fell from the sky - Scratched my head and wondered why
Source: E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite
Life Is All Around, Why You Lookin’ Down?
Life is all around, why you lookin' down? Life is all around - So look up, look up
Source: Good Feeling by 311
From the Top of the World Every Which Way Is Down
From the top of the world every which way is down
Source: Too Much to Think by 311
Am I Right Side Up or Upside Down?
Am I Right Side Up or Upside Down?
Source: Crush by Dave Matthews Band
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Think About the Place Where You Live
If you are confused, check with the sun. Carry a compass to help you along. Your feet are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to move you around.
