One Way Journey (1 of 4)
Series: After Jesus
Jeff Strite
Matthew 2:1-12
OPEN: I love to watch videos and read articles about outer space. Over the past few years mankind has explored numerous planets, moons and asteroids in our solar system. In fact, more than 40 years ago, American launched two spacecraft named ''Voyager'' and both of them have gone so far out into space that they're now in ''interstellar space,'' way beyond Pluto. I find it absolutely intriguing to learn about all the things that have been done, and are yet to be done in Space. Scientists are already talking about Space tourism (where a tourist could vacation in outer space); they've talked of landing on meteors and asteroids to mine for precious metals; setting up a base on the moon where we can venture further into space. There have even been plans for even putting men and women on Mars and setting up colonies there.
About 5 years ago, I read an article about a company that had plans to do just that. It was a Dutch company called ''Mars One.'' The article I read explained that Mars One planned to hold a lottery in 2015 to select 40 people to train for a team to go to Mars. They reported that they intended to start setting up housing structures on that planet in 2023 and would begin sending 4 people each year to colonize Mars. Now there was one catch with their offer. If you signed up with them to go to Mars with this company, you'd never return home again. You'd stay on Mars... forever. So, if you were to volunteer to go to Mars with this company you better want to be there - cause you're not coming back.
The truth is, that's always the case with the decisions we make. Robert Frost once wrote:
''Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler,
long I stood and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other...
(then Frost concludes)
''I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages ...
Series: After Jesus
Jeff Strite
Matthew 2:1-12
OPEN: I love to watch videos and read articles about outer space. Over the past few years mankind has explored numerous planets, moons and asteroids in our solar system. In fact, more than 40 years ago, American launched two spacecraft named ''Voyager'' and both of them have gone so far out into space that they're now in ''interstellar space,'' way beyond Pluto. I find it absolutely intriguing to learn about all the things that have been done, and are yet to be done in Space. Scientists are already talking about Space tourism (where a tourist could vacation in outer space); they've talked of landing on meteors and asteroids to mine for precious metals; setting up a base on the moon where we can venture further into space. There have even been plans for even putting men and women on Mars and setting up colonies there.
About 5 years ago, I read an article about a company that had plans to do just that. It was a Dutch company called ''Mars One.'' The article I read explained that Mars One planned to hold a lottery in 2015 to select 40 people to train for a team to go to Mars. They reported that they intended to start setting up housing structures on that planet in 2023 and would begin sending 4 people each year to colonize Mars. Now there was one catch with their offer. If you signed up with them to go to Mars with this company, you'd never return home again. You'd stay on Mars... forever. So, if you were to volunteer to go to Mars with this company you better want to be there - cause you're not coming back.
The truth is, that's always the case with the decisions we make. Robert Frost once wrote:
''Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler,
long I stood and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other...
(then Frost concludes)
''I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages ...
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