05/02/2017 – Lowell Observatory and Pluto

Tuesday 05/02/2017 – 7:30pm EDT, 4:30pm PDT (Show Notes)

(Mad Scientists Exposed starts at 90 minutes into schedule block.)

Visit to Lowell Observatory

Tomb of Percival Lowell

ASTRONOMY NOW DEMANDS BODILY ABSTRACTION OF ITS DEVOTEE – TO SEE INTO THE BEYOND REQUIRES PURITY – AND THE SECURING IT MAKES HIM PERFORCE A HERMIT FROM HIS KIND – HE MUST ABANDON CITIES AND FOREGO PLAINS – ONLY IN PLACES RAISED ABOVE AND ALOOF FROM MEN CAN HE PROFITABLY PERSUE (sic) HIS SEARCH – HE MUST LEARN TO WAIT UPON HIS OPPORTUNITIES AND THEN NO LESS TO WAIT FOR MANKIND’S ACCEPTANCE OF HIS RESULTS – FOR IN COMMON WITH MOST EXPLORERS HE WILL ENCOUNTER ON HIS RETURN THAT FINAL PENALTY OF PENETRATION THE CERTAINTY AT FIRST OF BEING DISBELIEVED ..

MARS AND ITS CANALS
PERCIVAL LOWELL

EVERYTHING AROUND THIS EARTH WE SEE IS SUBJECT TO ONE INEVITABLE CYCLE OF BIRTH GROWTH DECAY – NOTHING BEGINS BUT COMES AT LAST TO END – THOUGH OUR OWN LIVES ARE TOO BUSY TO EVEN MARK THE SLOW NEARING TO THAT EVENTUAL GOAL – TODAY WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW IS HELPING TO COMPREHENSION OF ANOTHER WORLD – IN A NOT DISTANT FUTURE WE SHALL BE REPAID WITH INTEREST AND WHAT THAT OTHER WORLD SHALL HAVE TAUGHT US WILL REDOUND TO A BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF OUR OWN AND OF THE COSMOS OF WHICH THE TWO FORM PART

THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS
PERCIVAL LOWELL

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