c_lou Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 With all of the goings on in the world today I ran into a post about this picture on another board. I found it quite humbling. I hope you enjoy. The dot is between the 2 white lines. ... 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. Info on the photo. The photo above was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntinsonovagun Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? Amazing, even though I don't see "the dot" I see black with a green, purple, and brown bands, with a little white line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_lou Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? [ QUOTE ] Amazing, even though I don't see "the dot" I see black with a green, purple, and brown bands, with a little white line [/ QUOTE ] The dot is between the 2 white lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? wow yep, humbled puts missing a 140" into perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntinsonovagun Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? [ QUOTE ] The dot is between the 2 white lines. [/ QUOTE ] WOW!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? Just a tiny speck. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puffy Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? Makes you feel puny in the scheme of things doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007hunter Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? Really makes ya think some... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetailkiller Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? impressive!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? Cool pic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archerjg Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Humbled Yet? That is a cool picture. Archerjg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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