carl sagan was awesome..

[Jerry_111]

.. and so was his speech on this picture.

http://www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

 

[Geogaddi]

Pale Blue Dot thread. I actually don't mind when this is dug up every so often.

 

[Jerry_111]

Alright, then here's some new content. The dot on the far left of Saturn's rings is Earth.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html

 

[tehsolace]

Alright, then here's some new content. The dot on the far left of Saturn's rings is Earth.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html

ALSO had its own thread not too long ago. good find though.

 

[AKIRA]

nice. earth=so freaking small

 

[Asuka]

Alright, then here's some new content. The dot on the far left of Saturn's rings is Earth.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html

Is that a real picture?

 

[Adabiviak]

Viva Carl Sagan!

 

[hungryduck]

he was definitely one of the greatest minds of the past generation....

 

[mortiz]

Yeah, when you realize how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things it's nearly impossible to think that we are some special product of a creator of the universe.

 

[Remus]

it's nearly impossible to think that we are some special product of a creator of the universe.

You would be surprised:upstare:

 

[CyberPitz]

You would be surprised:upstare:

That made me rofl.

But yeah, we are so small and insignificant in OUR solar system..think about the rest of the universe! D: Boggles my mind.

 

[Deadline]

Yeah, when you realize how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things it's nearly impossible to think that we are NOT some special product of a creator of the universe.

Fixed


But thats off topic, im not going to turn this into a debate thread.. too many of those