Dear Moon

Hey Everyone, this is Chris Jones, the curator and creator of the EDGE of Knowledge Website.

I’ve been humbled by the number of people who have both registered and who visit regularly to learn new things about the universe in and around us.

This is a departure from my usual post, but it’s worth it.

This video is part of my application for the Dear Moon project with Yusaku Maezawa and Elon Musk.

I received an email telling me I passed the first application with 'flying colors' and needed to submit a video. I loved their 2 simple questions for Phase 1 of the application process:

1. what project are you working on, and

2. how would you use this experience to bless humanity

Both questions blew my mind.

Phase 2 is this video. The requirement was hard: keep it less than a minute. Not easy.

So, for this video, I decided to circle back to the Phase 1 questions and illustrate what words sometimes fail to do.

I can think of no deeper experience than to see the earth from ~238,000 miles from the planet. It would be a profoundly philosophical, spiritual, and intellectual experience to see what Carl Sagan described as the "Pale Blue Dot" with my own eyes.

I'd use this experience as a catalyst to help people metaphorically step away from their world(s) and take a deeper look at the connections in their lives.

It's unlikely they'd pick me, but if they did, I'd use this experience to amplify the message of our oneness. I want to shine a light on what connects us with ourselves and the human family.

My philosophy is everything is connected and connection is everything.