It's another recent upload to YouTube: Peterborough band North of Summer's "Where Do We Go" with footage from NASA edited by Lester Alfonso. See it by clicking here. Was first screened at The Travelling World Community Film Festival as an intro short viewed before each film. (www.worldcommunity.ca) For me, that image of the rocket's tail end leaving the earth in the background will always be the signature image of the video. When the rocket gets rid of its parts, I always imagine that circular rocket casing to be a wedding ring flying off a finger and burning up!

Perhaps McLuhan was right and at that moment humankind collectively changed. Some say that's when the environmental movement started too. It was the first time we saw this planet so small and self-contained.

It does seem like a lot of energy has been expended in the name of space exploration but it reminds me that humankind is still in its toddler stage jumping up and down and poking at things. And, we do it all by creating amazing machines spawned by a relentless imagination for constantly advancing technology.

The video is the history of aviation and aeronautics in under 4 minutes. And when everything's been done, someone will hang-glide off a cliff just for the sheer joy of it too.

Where do we go from here? That is really the foremost question for the human race right now. L.A.