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MattO · 01-04-2007, 02:11 PM

From the Late, Great Carl Sagan:

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, 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 hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

MattO · 01-04-2007, 02:37 PM

I guess I should have put "BOOBS" or "I'D HIT IT" in the thread title.

Huggles · 01-04-2007, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MattO

I guess I should have put "BOOBS" or "I'D HIT IT" in the thread title.

Congrats

DaddyHalbucks · 01-04-2007, 02:40 PM

Great quotation.

AssPirate · 01-04-2007, 02:41 PM

I wonder how that photograph was taken. Or maybe it's not technically a photograph...

8ball · 01-04-2007, 02:41 PM

amazing stuff

L-Pink · 01-04-2007, 02:42 PM

Or someone needs to clean the lens.

WebairGerard · 01-04-2007, 02:51 PM

truly amazing and great quote

jaYMan · 01-04-2007, 02:54 PM

I've had friends dookey in my sink. Humanity is doomed.

Great pic, love threads like this =)

MattO · 01-04-2007, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AssPirate

I wonder how that photograph was taken. Or maybe it's not technically a photograph...

I do believe it was taken from Voyager.

GlydeGirl · 01-04-2007, 02:56 PM

Wow... impressively miniscule!

The Sultan Of Smut · 01-04-2007, 02:57 PM

Very very cool picture.

Furious_Male · 01-04-2007, 02:58 PM

Its interesting material.

For a larger photo:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c...y_1921_3680266

from http://www.carlsagan.com/

Huggles · 01-04-2007, 03:00 PM

I'd hit it

Juilan · 01-04-2007, 04:02 PM

That would be a fucking great voice over intro to a sci fi film.

madawgz · 01-04-2007, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MattO

I guess I should have put "BOOBS" or "I'D HIT IT" in the thread title.

obviously

DWB · 01-04-2007, 04:21 PM

awesome.

aico · 01-04-2007, 04:22 PM

Someone just watched "The Inconvenient Truth" ...

_Richard_ · 01-04-2007, 04:31 PM

That's a fucking kick ass quote

R

StuartD · 01-04-2007, 05:00 PM

And yet many people, even some who've already posted in this thread, will still go on to post in other threads about how we need to kill so and so, wish death on others and be excited about the idea of war.

It's a sad little dot we live in.

shekinah · 01-04-2007, 05:24 PM

Nice, what was that btw, a star?hehe, sorry for being stupid

DWB · 01-04-2007, 05:24 PM

I just put that on my blog. Thanks.

CyberHustler · 01-04-2007, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shekinah

Nice, what was that btw, a star?hehe, sorry for being stupid

do you read?

Nookster · 01-04-2007, 05:32 PM

I've read all of his books and most of his research papers. (I have a minor in Planetary Science.) Carl Sagan was the man! R.I.P. Carl.

notabook · 01-04-2007, 05:34 PM

I'd hit it.

Spunky · 01-04-2007, 05:35 PM

Amazing how much of a dust speck we are

aico · 01-04-2007, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shekinah

Nice, what was that btw, a star?hehe, sorry for being stupid

Apologize to yourself.

Huggles · 01-04-2007, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StuartD

And yet many people, even some who've already posted in this thread, will still go on to post in other threads about how we need to kill so and so, wish death on others and be excited about the idea of war.

It's a sad little dot we live in.

That does it Stu, I am going to kick your ass

marumari · 01-04-2007, 07:37 PM

and how was Carl Sagan not interesed in UFOs? Oh wait, he was!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Sagan_and_UFOs

SPACE GLIDER · 01-04-2007, 07:49 PM

I don't care how vast the universe is. I've never really felt humble or insignificant. Well ... offline.

bareskin · 01-04-2007, 07:54 PM

I fucken hated science class

Miguel T · 01-04-2007, 08:03 PM

Fucking cool!!!

pornguy · 01-04-2007, 08:13 PM

that sagan guy is a fart little smeller.

reynold · 01-04-2007, 08:33 PM

Great..and what are those vertical lines passing from top to bottom?

FelixFlow · 01-04-2007, 09:13 PM

powerful !!!

aico · 01-04-2007, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reynold

Great..and what are those vertical lines passing from top to bottom?

orbits would be my guess

needlive · 01-04-2007, 09:30 PM

very interesting thread...made me think...from that distance, do all the bad and good sides of humanity seem so tiny?

SPACE GLIDER · 01-05-2007, 12:38 AM

I still say we ARE the center of the universe.

tony286 · 01-05-2007, 12:44 AM

yes it is very humbling

Dagwolf · 01-05-2007, 12:45 AM

There is no god but the Universe, and Sagan is its prophet.

reynold · 01-05-2007, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPACE GLIDER

I still say we ARE the center of the universe.

Obviously, you still did not get the message..

HUMILITY...

Adultnet · 01-05-2007, 03:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reynold

Obviously, you still did not get the message..

HUMILITY...

yeah sure seems so

SPACE GLIDER · 01-05-2007, 04:12 PM

Why does that humble you? Knowing that there are things out there larger than you?

01-04-2007, 02:11 PM	#1
MattO The O is for Oohhh Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: AUSTIN TEJAS Posts: 10,861	Look upon this and BE HUMBLED From the Late, Great Carl Sagan: "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, 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 hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

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