michelle lord

Retired pharmacist, strong Irish connections.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds]

BREAKING NEWS...

Our Osprey Nest Cameras are now officially LIVE for the 2023 season! And what's more we've made a few upgrades: there's now TWO cameras and sound!!

Read our update and access the live cameras here:
https://t.co/bqYLWmemVJ

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The size of space: visualization of the scale of the universe

[Neal Agrawal: https://t.co/oVKNGJVHP5]

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@VirtualAstro Hope you feel better very soon

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@matt9dawson @philtufnell @QuestionofSport @RealDeniseLewis @DionDublinsDube @MartinBayfield A brilliant show last night - we had the best time and haven't laughed so much in a long time! The BBC have got this completely wrong sadly.
Good Luck to you all in whatever you do next! #QS

[Matt Dawson @matt9dawson]

So that is that…. Sue, Matt and @philtufnell are no more. We’re gutted but thems the breaks. Thank you Birmingham for an incredible send off from @QuestionofSport It was emotional but fun to the very last question. Love and thanks for all the support. #memories #QS #bestdays

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@VirtualAstro Very best wishes and hope you all feel better very soon

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

The greatest own goal in history!

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@VirtualAstro Hope you feel better very soon and thanks to Mrs Astro x

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@EmmaKennedy So painful. Hope you feel better very soon xx

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@VirtualAstro Glad you're feeling better

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

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[Tracy Borman OBE @TracyBorman]

Love this: Henry VIII's wives if they'd never met him 😁

[Guffers @gavmacn]

The gritter names this year are off the scale.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

“What is safe to say is that there is no rational basis for the adulation the NHS is currently receiving, and no reason to be ‘grateful’ for the fact that we have it." - @iealondon

Do me a favour and RT if you’re grateful for the NHS and the work its staff do

[Chester Zoo @chesterzoo]

Just a little something to help raise a smile today #BlueMonday

❤🐘🐻🦎🦧🐢🐫🦦❤

[Simon King @SimonOKing]

No. 4 will blow your mind 🤯❄️

[michelle lord @michelle2910]

@SimonOKing @theCALMzone You did your best. Well done for a massive effort 👏👏👏

[BBC Highlands @BBCHighlands]

Lunar rainbows and the Northern Lights... https://t.co/KJjJaDkdSp

[Robert McNees @mcnees]

The Voyager 1 spacecraft, 7.25 million miles away and speeding towards Jupiter, looked homeward #OTD in 1977 and captured the first picture of the entire Earth and Moon together in the same frame.
Image: NASA / JPL