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The size of our world
By Nancy.Reagan on 2010-03-06 | 4 comments |
| 1 | Ryan | 2010-03-07 | |
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I'm torn. On the one hand, this makes all the things I care about in the world seem totally insignificant and pointless. On the other hand, it accentuates their importance; they're all I've got and they're all I'm ever going to have. Life outside of of the "pointless minutia" of my existence is so vast, so staggeringly large, that I'll never be able to understand it. hm Reply to this |
| 1 | Natalie | 2010-03-07 | |
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The Earth is so cuuuute :)
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| 1 | Commander Cody | 2010-03-08 | |
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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." Carl Sagan Reply to this |
| 1 | Commander Cody | 2010-03-08 | |
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"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky." Carl Sagan. Reply to this |