I would like you all to look at one of the arguably most important pictures mankind has every taken.
[IMG]http://greenology.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/pale-blue-dot-image1.jpg[/IMG]
"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known."
[B]-Carl Sagan: [/B]1934-1996
[IMG]http://cumbriansky.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/carl_sagan.jpg[/IMG]
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I can't help but feel the need to cry whenever I read this because it is simply so beautiful and true, we are so insignificant in comparison to everything, a simple image taken nearly 6 billion miles away and that small section of pixels encompasses the entire human existence. There isn't much more to say about it, it speaks for itself.
[IMG]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs26/f/2008/143/0/c/Planet_Earth_by_sanmonku.jpg[/IMG]
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Cool.
This isn't news.
News?
What's with the sudden # of threads about this
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By the way, we aren't worthless, "worth" comes from what we make, or what consciousness makes alone, and we choose to hold ourselves high, so that's what we are. The universe isn't made for us, but without us it would have no worth.
Fuck can mods please move, no idea how it got here.
Someone repost that gif from the LMAO pics thread that has Carl Sagan on a horse. :v:
the news is the OP is late, he just discovered all of this
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;21321740]the news is the OP is late, he just discovered all of this[/QUOTE]
I am Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was the man.
this is posted in pretty much every space/physics thread
Carl Sagan was a stoner.
Just saying.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21321610]This isn't news.[/QUOTE]
Sweet merciful fuck! The Earth is round?!
-disregard this-
[QUOTE=Don Knotts;21321938]Sweet merciful fuck! The Earth is round?![/QUOTE]
these people beg to differ [url]http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/[/url]
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;21322459]these people beg to differ [url]http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/[/url][/QUOTE]
Sweet merciful fuck! People are dumb?
News
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;21322459]these people beg to differ [url]http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/[/url][/QUOTE]
They don't deserve to be a group when they can't even draw Australia properly.
Not news, but still.
Makes you think.
There's gotta be other life out there.
just because you saw it on digg doesn't make it news, retard
rate late mate
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r8l8m8
do you have any parfyoom?? per fum le?
parfyoomugh
Meant to rate late but clicked artistic accidentally.
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[QUOTE=Perfumly;21326363]rate late mate
[editline]03:03PM[/editline]
r8l8m8[/QUOTE]
you should just ban him for shit threa- OH WAIT GUFFAW GUFFAW
While this isn't news, Carl Sagan and his works always deserve attention.