Remembering Earth-that-was
If we establish a permanent human presence off the shoulder of Orion we will necessarily take an ecosystem with us. It won’t be humanity colonizing space, it will be Earth’s biosphere colonizing space. Life, in general, has an intrinsic property of opportunistic expansion, and we are life.
Not great astrophotography, but it is a rare event.
Amazon says: “Discover the world’s all-time bestseller in an entirely new light”. The “Books you may like” section has “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, by Carl Sagen, as its first suggestion.
