[Overview the Earth] No.3: So much history, so much tragedy.

Sammy 2016/05/12

Hello, my name is Sammy Shoji, CEO of LiVEARTH, Inc. In this website We are excited to communicate to the world what we think and try to achieve through our digital web-globe application “LiVEARTH”. We hope you enjoy our posts and insights coming up!

Credit: Scott Kelly, NASA

Our first post is on Astronaut Scott Kelly’s tweet on Oct. 8, 2015, over his Middle East view from space.

So much history, so much tragedy. – Interestingly, a comma between the two phrases seems to signify an important fact here. While “Long history, BUT much tragedy (though humans could have learned from history and reduce tragedy).” may be an appropriate interpretation, “Long history, THEREFORE much tragedy (because human history is the war history)” just as well looks reasonable.

While Sinai Peninsula has been religiously and historically exceptional for Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Old Testament days, so much blood was shed and even today the Sinai witnesses turmoil from Israel-Palestine conflict. Furthermore, Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 2014 published an appalling report “I Wanted to Lie Down and Die” – Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt, unraveling cruelty that traffickers have kidnapped, tortured, and killed refugees from Eritrea.

Overviewing the Earth, I imagine that Astro Kelly could simultaneously give thoughts to historical and tragic elements of the Middle East and such clear-cut summarizing words came out of his mouth naturally.

As many astronauts remarked, looking at the Earth from space gives a different angle to a normal unsurprising fact seen at the ground, and we can learn a new perspective.

(Ironically a grievous “tragedy” took place 3 weeks after Astro Kelly’s tweet. A Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard. We pray for all the victims involved in the accident.)

Digital web globe to overview the Earth: LiVEARTH[:en]Hello, my name is Sammy Shoji, CEO of LiVEARTH, Inc. In this website We are excited to communicate to the world what we think and try to achieve through our digital web-globe application “LiVEARTH”. We hope you enjoy our posts and insights coming up!

Credit: Scott Kelly, NASA

Our first post is on Astronaut Scott Kelly’s tweet on Oct. 8, 2015, over his Middle East view from space.

So much history, so much tragedy. – Interestingly, a comma between the two phrases seems to signify an important fact here. While “Long history, BUT much tragedy (though humans could have learned from history and reduce tragedy).” may be an appropriate interpretation, “Long history, THEREFORE much tragedy (because human history is the war history)” just as well looks reasonable.

While Sinai Peninsula has been religiously and historically exceptional for Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Old Testament days, so much blood was shed and even today the Sinai witnesses turmoil from Israel-Palestine conflict. Furthermore, Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 2014 published an appalling report “I Wanted to Lie Down and Die” – Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt, unraveling cruelty that traffickers have kidnapped, tortured, and killed refugees from Eritrea.

Overviewing the Earth, I imagine that Astro Kelly could simultaneously give thoughts to historical and tragic elements of the Middle East and such clear-cut summarizing words came out of his mouth naturally.

As many astronauts remarked, looking at the Earth from space gives a different angle to a normal unsurprising fact seen at the ground, and we can learn a new perspective.

(Ironically a grievous “tragedy” took place 3 weeks after Astro Kelly’s tweet. A Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard. We pray for all the victims involved in the accident.)

Digital web globe to overview the Earth: LiVEARTH