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I was sent this movie yesterday by a friend – it’s a video of images taken by the NASA Messenger probe as it flew by Earth in August, on its gravity-assisted path to Mercury.

Seeing Earth as viewed by a passing spacecraft put me in a strange mood. It was almost like stepping out of ourselves, and getting a glimpse what a visitor from elsewhere might see. Our planet is so small… we are so insignificant. This thought has struck me previously in a different form.

My initial thoughts for a soundtrack to this short movie was Sting’s Fragile, but in the end I selected a song by Beck. Charlie Haden plays bass on this track, in case anyone cares…

Beck – Ramshackle
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