[Raya]

While most of us here in the Vanguard ranks are eagerly awaiting our new MMORPG home, our other life home appears to have fallen on hard times. We Vanguardians have high hopes for how we want our world of Telon to be. Many safeguards have been or will be put into place to keep Telon safe, secure, user-friendly and trouble free. Our other home is, according to Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Eileen Collins, in a fragile state. To illustrate her warning, the picture to the left is a split screen photo, one side showing the desolate, atmosphere-devoid Mars and the other showing Earth. Hard to figure out which is which, isn't it?

Speaking from the shuttle in space today during a conversation with Japanese officials in Tokyo, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Commander Collins said that the space shuttle crew had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth. She warned that "...greater care was needed to protect natural resources."

Collins, flying her fourth shuttle mission, said the view from space made clear that Earth's atmosphere must be protected, too.

"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air, we need to protect what we have."

So, while we might have great success with protecting Telon, it seems that we need to apply the same kind of devotion to protecting our home planet in RL.

For the full story go by Reuters' Jeff Franks, go to Yahoo News! here.
For the full description behind the Earth/Mars photo, as portrayed at Astronomy Picture of the Day, go here.

[Niborea]

It's scary when you think of it. I try and recycle and do what I can to help, I'll often pick up trash that I find and proud that my kids often do the same.
What really gets to me is watching people from cars throw thier cigerette butts out the window on the freeway

[Gardomyn]

Originally Posted by Niborea

It's scary when you think of it. I try and recycle and do what I can to help, I'll often pick up trash that I find and proud that my kids often do the same.
What really gets to me is watching people from cars throw thier cigerette butts out the window on the freeway

.. and if those cars are 4x4, it's a double deception...

Anyway, if some presidents could have the good idea to sign the Kyoto Agreement, it could help a little bit to go to the right track... It's not enough, of course, but a good start...

Long term existence is better than the short one... We must think as one on that matter... try to stop to be selfish... we need cooperation, not competition...

C'mon, Bring Starfleet on board