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- markthegoth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+126"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that evolving,
Revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second,
So it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
It's 100,000 light years side to side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick,
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide.
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go around every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions,
In this amazing and expanding universe..." - shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+83it makes it more difficult for the aliens to find us, security through obscurity....
now i'm off to lobby congress to put a stop to radio signals... - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+78You must be using Google Earth 5 Beta
- rjpaez, on 10/12/2007, -14/+75I think I see my house from here...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55pretty amazing how insignificant our little world is in comparison to the rest of the universe.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51What is this? A planet for ants? How can we be expected to teach people to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the planet?
The Earth has to be at least... three times bigger than this! - fivestarsoul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43I really hate to be a prick, but... did you even read the first line of the ***** article?
"Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990."
I'll narrow it down more:
"...photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990."
Sorry, I just calls 'em as I sees 'em. - DrDigg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42Dammit my eyes were closed
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38not pictued - Xenu's craft
- piratesarefun, on 10/12/2007, -16/+47looks pretty small from way out there...
kinda makes you wonder...
will it blend? - Mihai12345, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32"but will it blend" "but will it blend" "but will it blend"
AAAAAAA I'm going crazy !!!!!!!! - ingoldsby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Makes you realize how stupid we are as a race to wage all of these wars, and strip our planet of its resources without much thought to what we will do when they are gone. We don't have anywhere else to go, and this picture really makes you realize just how small this planet is.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Think universally, act galactically.
- Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -11/+36I can see myself looking at this photo from there....
- brockpetrie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Carl Sagan was ***** awesome.
- falcon1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19We strapped a big ole rocket to some electronics, lit the fuse, and the darn things still haulin' arse through the universe :)
- dolphumous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I'm in ur galaxy...watching your planet.
- waltwalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I think the rest of the universe is just as insignificant as we are on a cosmic scale.
But considering we have the only planet (as far as we can tell) with not one but billions of species on it, I would say we are MORE significant than the rest of the dust in the 'sunbeam.'
-w - Chuckysly, on 10/12/2007, -18/+33I can see Uranus from there.
- gincarnated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I would have dugg the story if it was just Carl Sagan's quote.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13so... C = 186282 miles/second
4billion/186k = 21472 seconds for a signal to reach earth travelling at light speed
= 357 minutes
= about 6 hours max speed
geez, and i thought my 2400 baud modem was slow to download one porno pic when i was little. 30 whole minutes. - jsballardx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Cameron: I think I can see my dad from up here.
Ferris: This is the tallest building in the world.
Cameron: ...Son of a bitch is down there somewhere - ChillHomie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16This was on the front page last week, but with the photo turned on its side...
- ybisme, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16thats really awe inspiring and thought provoking...
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22Americans! Say after me: METER... METER.
- djhaloeight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Always amazes me when I see stuff like this....we're so wrapped up in our petty little lives and worried about stuff that, in the BIG picture, means NOTHING at all.
- PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16That photo was taken in 1990. I bet that was before most of the annoying Digg users were born.
What a great time it was back then... - scratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Soon to be a much brighter dot for a very brief period of time, if our current world leaders continue to do the job they are doing now...
- bossmanthe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Feeling pretty insignificant...
- embraboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Because there's b*gger all down here on Earth - tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9hamsters
- spdorsey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8We should feel insignificant. We are.
But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves and bask in our insignificance.
--S - sergiolopes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@brian
I'll let Sir Isaac Newton explain it himself :)
"A body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion continues to move in a straight line with a constant speed unless and until an external unbalanced force acts upon it." - Filcho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It was made by a guy, who slipped and dropped off the edge of the world. he made the shot and then sent it through bluetooth.
Does anybody see the big turtle and the four elephants upon it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You make baby Newton cry.
- rsdouglas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Metre, I think you'll find :P
- Kakcoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://digg.com/space/Picture_of_Earth_from_Deep_Space
Not exactly the same picture, but its from the same spacecraft at about the same distance. - sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I hope if it's science related....we use SI units...
- kelway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Then he said to Jodie Foster, "That's the way it's been for billions of years."
- xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why is there a need for a purpose? Can't we just be? Can't we create our own purpose?
- Hegemony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0lTO4GB8sw
Cartoons were soooooo much better when I was a kid. What cartoons today give kids info about cosmology that many adults don't know? - kyledavis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@BobbyOnions
The *earth* is revolving at the same speed no matter where you're standing. You, on the other hand, could move at different speeds depending where you're standing. See how that works? - Quake120, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8We mean absolutely nothing to the universe. The earth is a tiny speck in infinity. The earth could disappear right now and it wouldn't affect the universe at all.
We will never explore more than 1 hundred trillionth of it (if that) in the history of the human species because we are too damn busy blowing each other apart and fighting over things that really do not matter at all. - spdorsey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4waltwalt:
I agree - but we are only significant to us. No one else knows about us (that we know of), so what does significance matter if you are only significant to yourself?
If you are alone in the woods and you yell, then why did you yell - no one heard you. . .
Just a thought.
-----S - illt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4just a pale blue dot.
- brianmcuasito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i didn't realize we had something four billions miles away.. how did we get it there? is that like a really big tank of rocket fuel or does the whole no gravity thing take care of it?
- PretLetters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I actually got a little emotional over this picture. Aren't we the lucky ones. All that vast 'nothingness' and than that little speck with life. Cute, vulnerable. I love us.
- philz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For a moment I though - "hey cool, and whats that planet just next to us?" Then I cleaned my monitor. :-(
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yes it was.
- Walt65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think I can see Rossie's ass...
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