[BJEugene]

Been a while since anyone posted this, but I have always found this to be a very important message. While Voyager 1 was leaving our solar system, having passed Saturn and heading for the outer planets, it was decided to turn it around for one last glimpse home.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMUuR--Qvo

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.

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

[DoctoNilsonDen]

Thanks for that. I rather enjoyed it.

[SaraKonradtt]

That's all well and good, but lets be honest.... nVidia > ATi.

[gernica]

That's all well and good, but lets be honest.... nVidia > ATi.

[rofl]

[ropinirole]

That's all well and good, but lets be honest.... nVidia > ATi.

Class! Nice one Drinks. [rofl]



On a more serious note, if only all people on earth could think in the same fashion, then perhaps the world would have a chance of reaching that Utopian society, it also makes you understand how petty all our wars over boundaries and religion really are, pointless.

[kKFB1BxX]

We should remove human emotions. Solves all the problems...honest.

[capeAngedlelp]

We should remove human emotions. Solves all the problems...honest.

Then we would cease to be human.

[Rugda]

Maybe studying this video should be made compulsory in schools world wide.

[Turbo-ip]

Class! Nice one Drinks. [rofl]



On a more serious note, if only all people on earth could think in the same fashion, then perhaps the world would have a chance of reaching that Utopian society, it also makes you understand how petty all our wars over boundaries and religion really are, pointless.

Humans aren't made to live in a Utopian society. We would suicide and we would get miserable anyway. Also, there's a point that pointless stuff exist.

We should remove human emotions. Solves all the problems...honest.

Have you watched Equilibrium? It's not a nice society lol..

[mralabama]

While I agree with the core of what he is saying, about putting humanities disagreements over the millennia in their place. He has a rather bleak outlook on life that I don't just don't subscribe to for obvious reasons.

[kKFB1BxX]

Have you watched Equilibrium? It's not a nice society lol..

lol aye

[perhilzit]

Have you watched Equilibrium? It's not a nice society lol..

But they have nice coats

[leahjhburton]

While I agree with the core of what he is saying, about putting humanities disagreements over the millennia in their place. He has a rather bleak outlook on life that I don't just don't subscribe to for obvious reasons.

He didn't have a 'bleak outlook on life'. He wasn't an idealist, he wasn't liberal or conservative, he wasn't religious or atheist. He was simply a realist. He analyzed situations and ideas and theologies and theories and beliefs and came to conclusions that were as unbiased and as fact based as possible. He understood how small we are in this universe, this galaxy, even this solar system. And that's EXACTLY how each and every one of us should be. We need to stop being so arrogant about who we are, and how important we think we are. We need to realize that no one is going to save us from our wordly mistakes and we can wipe ourselves out in a heartbeat if we don't respect our planet and realize that it can and absolutely WILL run out of resources.

[Turbo-ip]

But they have nice coats

Everyone looks the same, I hate the same, normal bla bla. No personality to it, a soceity like that is made for robots.