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Jaxx
01-22-2007, 03:21 PM
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2006/12/29/perspective/

http://static.flickr.com/140/321750728_fa6631941e.jpg

Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990.

Of the "pale blue dot," astronomer Carl Sagan said, "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

moabfool
01-22-2007, 03:25 PM
I totally agree. I love to lie on my back at twilight and stare up into the sky as it darkens. It makes me feel insignificant and wonderfully important all at the same time. The thought I really like to entertain is whether we're alone. I don't think we are. Other planets almost certainly have life on them. It's just kind of sad that we can't meet them (or really lucky that we haven't).

Anyway, speck of dust....

tanya
01-22-2007, 03:33 PM
I totally agree. I love to lie on my back at twilight and stare up into the sky as it darkens. It makes me feel insignificant and wonderfully important all at the same time. The thought I really like to entertain is whether we're alone. I don't think we are. Other planets almost certainly have life on them. It's just kind of sad that we can't meet them (or really lucky that we haven't).

Anyway, speck of dust....


Me too, but not alone. :haha: