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- ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+136**Diggs article and thinks about how insignificant his digg is worth**
- radicaldementia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+109**Diggs article and then restores feelings of significance by looking at pictures of amoebas...puny little insignificant amoebas**
- thejuicer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+102Mind numbing.
Made me feel pretty insignificant as well
but then I thought to myself:
"Hey, at least I'm not a spamming douchebag like itchye" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+91It's amazing how important each one of us thinks we are...this really kind of puts into perspective how insignificant we are...
- Chakz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+67Here's a higher res version:
http://tinyurl.com/yzfy98 - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54"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. " - Porkchoppa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42home ---> .
- zforrester, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31I dugg this for that quote, not the pictures
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Carl Sagan is my hero.
- Spo8, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28I just wish we could deliver those paragraphs to every person on the planet. I wish everyone could read those words at the exact same time and come to the realization that we're all in this together. Don't focus on the fact that our home is so unimaginably tiny, because we're here and that makes it significant. The point is that no matter what we look like or where we're from, we're human. After billions of years leading up to where we are now, we're actually in danger of destroying that. In danger of letting land, skin color, greed, or words in a very old book destroy the cosmic masterpiece that has been handed to us.
- marksven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19More pictures of Earth from afar here:
http://www.spaceimages.com/earth.html
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05547 - Farik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I originally saw the Pale Blue Dot as a YTMND http://palebluedot.ytmnd.com/
- Suits, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19You are here.
- scojerroc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15You ever look at a Picture of Earth from Deep Space... ... ... on weed?
- Spo8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This made the rounds a little while ago, as it's fairly old. Carl Sagan was more than a scientist, he was a philosopher. Truly one of the great minds of our time.
- Farik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11^^ Like right now?
- colinmhayes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12don't panic
- Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12@Zippo
The Bajorans have no rightful claim to that Wormhole!!! It was discovered by Cardassian technology and is protected by a Cardassian station!!!! The Wormhole IS Cardassia!!! The Aliens of the Wormhole are Cardassia as well!!!
YOU HAVE NO CLAIM!!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Watch this...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831&sourceid=Himself - rbanffy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11This pic definitely makes Earth feel more like a lifeboat than a planet.
Watching the Cosmos series in my teens was a life-changing experience. I owe a lot to Carl Sagan.
I am sure many of us do. - askegg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It must be said - "Mostly harmless"
- ThisIsBob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9And the Dude who created all of that is concerned that bipeds on that dot eat pork?
- hectavex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8From wikipedia:
Carl Sagan was an avid user of marijuana, although he never admitted this publicly during his life. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he wrote an essay concerning cannabis smoking in the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered, whose editor was Lester Grinspoon.[7] In his essay, Sagan commented that marijuana encouraged some of his works and enhanced experiences.
This just made me think back to the marijuana topics here on digg with all the blanket statements on how pot makes you stupid and lazy. - apothekari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Whenever Life gets you down Ms Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or Daft
And you feel that you've had quite enooooooouuuuuugh.
Just remember that you're standing
On a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
It's orbiting at 90 miles a second
So it's reckoned
A Sun that is the source of all our power...
Eric Idle MPFC
ftw - Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@muikano
Your right!!! feuding over the earth when we could claim the entire universe COLONIZE MARS NOW!!!
@junk
Most gods don't smite actually. Its rather unkempt...
And whats wrong with a god giving advice??? You have free will, do what you like, don't get so upset cause god had some recommedations god thought you should implement. Thou shall not do this, for I think its a really bad idea. Thou shall do this for it is very cool. This upsets you????
Tell me, do you curse Netflix when it shows you movies you might like? - Kamill85, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Blow it up Lexx.
- g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Wow, that leads me to think that you think someone else's god IS a douchebag. And its that kinda ***** that starts wars and prevents us from going beyond our own planet. So just shut the ***** up.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8That's kind of old. Here's a new one.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html - JimDinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Kinda brought everyone to reality for a bit didnt it? I know it did me.
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Kind of puts kings in perspective.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It's not deep space until you've hit the Bajoran wormhole.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4oldie but a goodie
- cw1925, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just in case of a digg effect:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5936/pbdsmfn5.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1192/pbdclosecc2.jpg - robertgoodwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For anyone who's interested, this image and the quote from Carl Sagan are available on a poster from the Planetary Society: http://planetarysociety.stores.yahoo.net/planetary-store-326.html
- TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Old, but still classic. I still own Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan (his sequel to Cosmos) in hardcover. I encourage all Diggers to go out to the library and borrow a copy!
- d17182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@thejuicer
Well said. It's important to remember that, while we are all practically nothing in the universe, we are something to those we love and everything to those who love us. And while we are practically nothing, ***** spammers like itchye are just a bit more nothing. - lysdexia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The importance of spirit and presence is far beyond our physical dimension - even that of Sagans. Not that we aren't guilty of all the horrors outlined in the text, but the world is a better place for billions than it was one hundred years ago and human endeavour will always strive to make further inroads into the problems we face.
Chin up! - PaulLev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Absolutely - as Sagan said, we come from the cosmos, so when we look out at the cosmos, we're the stuff of the cosmos looking back at itself. http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2006/12/carl-sagan-and-stuff-of-cosmos.html
- Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Everyone just block itchye already, doesn't that ban people?
- Azzere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's awesome. It's hard to believe that's really the earth.
The one question that's still on my mind though.
Is "If we are always expanding, what are we expanding into?" - junk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Most gods *are* douchebags though. Always going around getting all high and mighty, smiting stuff and talking like that announcer dude from the movie trailers about "You shall not do this, you shall do not that" ... phooey!
- Pobotrol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?"
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Why's that?
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Hmm too bad I was dugg down, I was going to draw AustinLucas into reexamining his point of view. Oh well.
- GLSmyth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No comment here needed, the image speaks for itself.
- wyattearp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so ... are you suggesting random digg-drug screening? sounds good to me. i could see half or more the idiots disappear and not care.
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm sure someone with more technical knowledge will explain it in detail, but something smaller than a pixel can show up in a photo as simply a dimmer pixel. Obviously it's no smaller than pixel-sized on the screen image, but the Earth was smaller than the resolution/pixel the camera was capable of.
- Salgat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its cute that you assume things and make statements how future generations will "pity us", the generation that brung about the revolutionary technology that dramatically changed this world. Does life existout there? Probably. Does Intelligent Humanoid life exist out there? Thats just a close-minded assumption that the only thing intelligent aliens can be is something similar to Earth's creatures.
- timing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3More info. You all should read the books!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Harmless - greymarketbrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Thanks for posting that.
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