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Just makes you think, eh?

Had a bad day?



"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was 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 mother and father; every hopeful child; every inventor and explorer; every teacher of morals; every corrupt politician; every supreme leader; every superstar; 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 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. 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. 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. 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. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known: the pale blue dot."


-- Carl Sagan (1994)

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Judging by the lack of replies, it doesn't look like it makes people think.
Reply 2
It makes me think but there's nothing else to say.
Reply 3
1 The Legacy
Judging by the lack of replies, it doesn't look like it makes people think.

hahah :biggrin:
1 The Legacy
Judging by the lack of replies, it doesn't look like it makes people think.


Maybe they're so awed by it all that they don't know what to say? :p:
thecdon
it makes me think - troll


How? How the hell could it possibly be a troll?

:facepalm: Deary me.


And OP, yes it does. I've seen that before, and it made me think thenn as well. Pretty remarkable to be honest.
aye, I'm speechless. But really, good post. :smile:
Reply 7
This is a better measure

Champagne Supernova
How? How the hell could it possibly be a troll?

:facepalm: Deary me.



Well, I might be a troll by... uh...

Posting an inspiring quote? :confused:
Reply 9
My old college had a poster with that image and that text. I used to read it when I got bored...so quite often!
Reply 10
it's scaryy
Reply 11
1 The Legacy
Judging by the lack of replies, it doesn't look like it makes people think.

I'm thinking........of pie.

TBH it's a lovely sentiment, but I don't see much beyond it - sentimentality.
bowdeni
This is a better measure


Yeah, that's pretty good!

Try Powers of Ten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY
mazza558
Had a bad day?





-- Carl Sagan (1994)


aww :yep:
That first post was just beautiful. Brought me a tear.
Reply 15
im so academic
That first post was just beautiful. Brought me a tear.


There are oxbridge admissions tutors looking for you on this site btw. They want to reject you. I spoke to one the other day.
think tho, amongst all that gubbinz of orangey/gold haze, we are the brightest dot, that's gotta count for something right?
Reply 17
It makes me think we're slightly insignificant. :frown:
Kinda wana cry now.
And wonder why I'm bothering revising :p:
This thread makes me think about who would wanna read that longgg paragraph.

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