Image Dump V (POST YOUR RANDOM IMAGES HERE!)

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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.

- Carl Sagan
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Gives me the chills every time I read it.
 
I found this in the Sad Thread. I made it. But that's not why I was browsing around the Sad Thread.

I am going for hell for it.


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That brings back memories of the Organic Design project as part of Product Design last year. I did geometric shapes in design though, won an award created for me, the table top took more than 20 hours to laser cut and engrave. I'll post some photos if anyone's interested.

And now for something subtle.

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Did they glue his sandals down onto the floor? That's what it looks like. lol
 
ewww.. I love bacon, but not enough to have it in liquid form. Bacon needs TEXTURE
 
Sometimes I just dive into my very exciting folder of exciting things and pluck something out at random to share.

Today it is this

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