I bless you, Science

"An Orthodox priest blesses specialists and the Russian Soyuz TMA-21 space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station at the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome oin Kazakhstan on Sunday, April 3, 2011."


The religious never cease to push the boundaries of irony. The technologically advance machine that man has create to reach orbit was build despite the religious condemnation and ought-right violence agains science. It is insulting to all the intellectuals that were killed or stifled throughout years. These superstitions have not changed, just lost much of their power. 500 years ago that priest could have had that scientists jailed, but now he just uses the opportunity for a photo shoot.

Sad.

The other pictures are however beautiful and inspiring.

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/