[cartoon thanks to atheistcartoons.com]

[click image to enlarge; cartoon thanks to xkcd.com]

[cartoon thanks to treelobsters.com]

What’s above my holiday tree is fairly fantastic as well!

[all images thanks to NASA]

This is the “street view” (no-street view) of one of the many undeveloped areas of . . . Mars. The only development on that planet might be the recent addition of rover tracks.  Was that unmanned rover sent by Google?

Where human eyes now go — it’s amazing. Thanks to technology. If anything ought to be praised . . .

[image thanks to NASA]

NASA’s unmanned Dawn spacecraft took this picture of the asteroid Vesta. Upon analysis by experts, it seems the asteroid has had landslides on it. A landslide on an asteroid! Holy craters! What a wild and fantastic universe we live in. And thanks to NASA we are discovering more and more about it.

Landslides on Earth, sure I can easily comprehend that. But a landslide on an asteroid?! I don’t know about you, but that causes something of an intellectual mind-slide within me.

To wax a bit philosophical here: What is the Earth but a massive asteroid running circles around the sun, completely caught by its gravitational field? Cut the the gravitational tether to the star at the center of our solar system and . . .

Yikes. I’ve got to sit down. That thought just about blew my mind.

Doing the first can facilitate the second.

Consider these stunning peeks of “out there.” Do you feel the walls of your mind coming down, just a little?

[all below photos of planet Earth thanks to NASA]