The caption at NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" page reads: "Atlantis to Orbit."The filename of the picture reads: nightlaunch.And I am moved by the poetry of this most modern of images, not by the triumph of Reason which it seems to enshrine, but by that which is beyond Reason yet within it all the same.In thinking about this brief essay I could not help but think of a longer one by Doctor Bob at The Doctor Is In about a "civilized" European nation that cannot stop itself from...