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Post by KevinW on Sept 14, 2012 19:10:04 GMT -5
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, The Earth as photographed by Voyager 1 as it exited the Solar System in 1990, taken from nearly 4 billion miles, or 6.4 billion kilometers, away. Play the video and look at the picture. There's human insignificance for you.
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Post by junilee26 on Sept 15, 2012 9:05:51 GMT -5
Wow kevin, this is a very interesting video. Really. Really liked it.
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Post by sergeyfen on Sept 15, 2012 9:21:02 GMT -5
It's very cool video, humans make it seem big even though its little.
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Post by JustinK. on Sept 15, 2012 23:24:32 GMT -5
Nice video btw did you add the advertisement yourself? o.O i think that everything that exists today have their own meaning. Nature has an order in which everything is balanced. Yes, Earth is very very tiny compared to the universe, but as this video mentioned, it's more than just a dot. Without Earth, what will happen to the solar system? Without the solar system, how will it affect our galaxy?
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Post by |Ruchira| on Sept 16, 2012 1:14:57 GMT -5
This video shows how small we are, no pun intended. We are really insignificant. The Universe is so big and we are just a small, tiny party of it. But this video also shows, how important we are or at least our actions are. There are so many people on earth and so many different cultures and religions and so much diversity. And earth is the only place where all of this exists. So to me, this shows how we are the only species in this universe to do the things we do, so we are pretty important and we are historical. But at the same time we are just a tiny thread of a tapestry.
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Post by bilal15 on Sept 16, 2012 2:01:23 GMT -5
look how small we are, everyone and everything is in that pale blue dot. Its a very good video kevin.
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Post by KevinW on Sept 16, 2012 2:12:26 GMT -5
This video shows how small we are, no pun intended. We are really insignificant. The Universe is so big and we are just a small, tiny party of it. But this video also shows, how important we are or at least our actions are. There are so many people on earth and so many different cultures and religions and so much diversity. And earth is the only place where all of this exists. So to me, this shows how we are the only species in this universe to do the things we do, so we are pretty important and we are historical. But at the same time we are just a tiny thread of a tapestry. BLOODY BRILLIANT BRAVO! btw did you add the advertisement yourself? o.O Nope. i think that everything that exists today have their own meaning. Nature has an order in which everything is balanced. Yes, Earth is very very tiny compared to the universe, but as this video mentioned, it's more than just a dot. Without Earth, what will happen to the solar system? Without the solar system, how will it affect our galaxy? More than a dot to us. But do you think the universe was intelligently designed (i.e. universe was designed by God).
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Post by mirim002 on Sept 16, 2012 2:26:04 GMT -5
omg kevin...i guess...this is a good video...look how small i am...we are so coool
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Post by yeajinchoi on Sept 16, 2012 4:38:11 GMT -5
Nice video! Our home is just a small dot but we have so much pride in it. That's how special our little dot is to us. In a way, this video made me feel smaller.
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Post by brandonina on Sept 16, 2012 4:57:06 GMT -5
Haha, Kevin. I like this video a lot. Everything Carl points out in the video is quite accurate since there are diverse and numerous things of human life that are packed together into one, small in scale of universe, dot. And this makes humans insignificant unlike how we feel they are important. Also, I loved the part where he says that we should preserve the earth since we wouldn't have anywhere else to settle or live in. This makes me think that earth might be the one of the few places where livings can flourish and prosper in the vast space of universe, which it's our responsibility to preserve this precious planet.
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Post by yeajinchoi on Sept 16, 2012 5:24:36 GMT -5
This video reminded me of the animation/cartoon(?) movie 'Horton hears who'. It demonstrates the same idea.
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Post by james on Sept 16, 2012 6:12:44 GMT -5
Like it, kinda depressing though.
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Post by woojongpark on Sept 16, 2012 6:18:18 GMT -5
After seeing this video, I felt that all the conflicts and problems humans make are just a speck of dust, compared to the universe.
Like the poem in There Will Come Soft Rain, universe would not care if Earth disappears, just like nature would not care if humans disappear. Although humans are very tiny and insignificant, they are important to someone. If we look at a smaller scale, we are important to our family. We are important to our friends. I think the significance of our existence doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that we live here on this Earth.
I know this is a really trivial opinion, but I think there will be other living organisms other than us. The universe is too awesome and large for only us to live.
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Post by gb1708 on Sept 16, 2012 7:35:19 GMT -5
Nice video. Everything which is the greatest statues, mountain, building,... longest river and over 7 billion people just in small dot.
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Post by esther on Sept 16, 2012 8:21:00 GMT -5
Wow I like this video. It shows how small Earth is. Even though it's small from a far distance, we are in it, I am in it, and every living organism is living in it. It's pretty cool.
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