Sunday, October 05, 2008

Jung Called It "Synchronicity" -- I Call It "Spooky!"

I was reading in a news article that 37 pages of the diary of Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, somehow managed to survive the heat of the explosion, the extreme cold of space, a 37-mile fall to earth, and were found lying in a field just outside of Palestine, Texas, two months later. It took Israeli forensic scientists and museum experts 2 years to restore it and decipher the 80% of it that was deciperable. It made the news because 2 pages of it are going to be displayed as part of a larger exhibit of famous documents from Israel's history, held to mark the country's 60th anniversary this year.

Does this strike you as just a tad bit eerie? --a diary survived when most of the actual space shuttle did not, it's the Israeli astronaut's diary, and it was found just outside Palestine, Texas.

Cue the "Twilight Zone" themesong, please.

0 comments: