Earthbound?

Earthbound?

Maybe we are not meant to leave this planet.

“A study of 27 astronauts found that nearly all of their eyes and brains showed abnormalities after returning from space. Lead researcher Larry Kramer of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, says the abnormalities are caused by increased pressure in the brain that's consistent with idiopathic intercranial hypertension, a disease on earth without a known cause. Astronauts who were in space for longer periods of time showed the worst symptoms, which include altered vision, displaced pituitary gland, and swelling of the optic nerve.”

http://jewishworldreview.com/0312/space_colony_snag.php3

(I have read science fiction since age 12. Some of my favorite books are science fiction. I have looked forward to man’s exploration of what’s out there. It could be, though, that science fact will keep us here. At least until/if technologists find a fix to the human frailty problem.

(Or: "He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings" Acts 17:26.

(Or the older version: God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation.”

(You could pick out “surface of the earth” or “face of the earth” as indicative that we are bound to here, although the argument could be made Paul’s talk with Athenians stuck to the things people knew then.

(You could point to the statement that God has set “the bounds of their habitation” as meaning Earth. You might even say, “Look what happened at Babylon when the people tried to build a stairway to heaven.”

(Whichever, man will go on trying.)