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- binky79, on 11/16/2009, -12/+51This is the best xkcd ever!
- trisweb, on 11/16/2009, -1/+26"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
Are you an astrophysicist yet? - simplyintricate, on 11/16/2009, -1/+21Not you again!
- Jinkley, on 11/16/2009, -0/+19Dugg for duplicity.
- Vinnie5, on 11/16/2009, -2/+20Until the next one
- yoshi8710, on 11/16/2009, -1/+19This takes skill.
- Jinkley, on 11/16/2009, -2/+18Dugg for duplicity.
- binky69, on 11/16/2009, -16/+32This is the best xkcd ever!
- Vinnie5, on 11/16/2009, -2/+17Until the next one
- Zaetha, on 11/16/2009, -1/+16binky79 vs binky69: FIGHT!
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&am ... - yoshi8710, on 11/16/2009, -2/+17This takes skill.
- GodAImighty, on 11/16/2009, -2/+16Go to hell
- simplyintricate, on 11/16/2009, -4/+18Not you again!
- GodAImighty, on 11/16/2009, -4/+12Go to heaven
- iXneonXi, on 11/16/2009, -1/+7*****
- mrmango786, on 11/16/2009, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk For the wiiiin!
- WonderBoy55, on 11/16/2009, -1/+6Is it monday already? *****
- tekian, on 11/16/2009, -0/+5Why yes, Carl Sagan-man. I do believe we've been to the moon.
- GodAImighty, on 11/16/2009, -1/+5but can he autotune
- mrstoneok, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3Not yet, but I'm working on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc <------Obligatory. - trisweb, on 11/16/2009, -2/+5Eh, why not. Dugg. Just this once.
- metroid0714, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3Who else silently wishes that this happened to them?
- SpazAttack5000, on 11/16/2009, -1/+4Is there another page that has the punchline on it?
- lazyslacker, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
The sky calls to us - D4RK354B3R, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3Oh you sneaky people.
- bmad965, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2Why is everything double?
- rotorbladesmoke, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2Dugg for consistency.
- TheMoniker, on 11/16/2009, -1/+2Eh, why not? Dugg, just this once.
- the13thbrother, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1anyone else agree that xkcd should make some animated shorts?
- rotorbladesmoke, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I got bitten by a radioactive spider, and all I got was leukemia.
- D4RK354B3R, on 11/16/2009, -1/+2Oh you sneaky bots.
- notyourbroom, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I love the stages that this meme takes. People start burying it, then the nostalgia factor kicks in, then people get tired of it and bury it again, then digg it once its fresh again.
I for one find find the cycle kind of relaxing, as if it marks the passage of time, and the diggs signify the seasons that the comment will go through. I will be deeply disturbed once this comment leaves the page for good; no matter how low it goes under the threshold, or whether it breaks 1000 diggs, it always gladdens me to see that some things always stay the same no matter of outside opinions.
Godspeed Binky. - LethalLink, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1The next xkcd will be even better.
- rotorbladesmoke, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Dugg for consistency.
- Jordan117, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Don't forget his arch-nemesis Snarl Sagan, who uses his terrifying Death Telescope to frighten world leaders into giving him "billions and billions... in grant money."
- RexMaxus, on 11/16/2009, -3/+4This was submitted awfully fast. o.0
- bmad965, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Why is everything double?
- mbonzo531, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Nah, his arch-rivals are Pat Robertson-Man and Jerry Falwell-Man. Otherwise known as the ambiguously gay duo.
- yoshi8710, on 11/16/2009, -1/+1Indeed.
- wontonforevuh, on 11/16/2009, -2/+2OR GTFO
- Archaic1, on 11/16/2009, -2/+1Who the ***** cares?
- Chrus, on 11/16/2009, -7/+6That was pretty lame
- vault, on 11/16/2009, -9/+7Another awful xkcd comic.
- Dagreenman, on 11/16/2009, -7/+1Is Arch-Nemesis is Sagan-Man for Rednecks.
- Kalior, on 11/16/2009, -9/+3This is the worst xkcd ever.
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