Putting things in perspective...

[MoonRiver]

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. That also illustrates the size of a repug brain next to the brain of a liberal.

[MoonRiver]

2. LOL, so true!

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. Well, the empathy and reason part of the brain, not the hate part.

[Joinfortmill]

3. Very cool

[lagomorph777]

21. The Sun in that picture is being nice. It's ugly when it's not being nice.

[kairos12]

4. Wait..what

The depiction of earth should be done with a penny.

[3Hotdogs]

5. I ive on the upper, right hand corner of the dot you have pointing to its the arrow.

That's me. waving hello to you.

[MoonRiver]

7. I think I see you!

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. You have a new haircut!

[niyad]

6. Exactly.

[msfiddlestix]

8. that's a great metaphor/image

where did you find this gem?

[MoonRiver]

17. From another message board, but don't know the origin of that image.

[Solly Mack]

9. The thought doesn't diminish me. It fills me with excitement and curiosity.

Just a teeny tiny part of the wonder of it all that is the vastness of the universe.

I get no one is asking me to feel diminished but it seems that some people do feel that way when reminded they are just a small part of the bigger picture.

[Nictuku]

10. But wait! There is more to this story

Compare our Sun to Betelguse or Antares!!



And that is only in our Galaxy! Who knows how much larger Suns can be.


And then on the flip side: How small can things get? We thought Atoms were the smallest things at one point, then we discovered nutrons, and more.

The Universe is Amazing, and You are In it!

[MoonRiver]

18. Wow, it is so very fascinating!

[brush]

25. And everything rotates and revolves around another revolving/rotating object...

no matter how small or large, the glue/force, seemingly, which holds everything together.

[Native]

11. I absolutely love this.

[BSdetect]

12. Inspirational learning pics

[Martin Eden]

13. My wife tells me

Size doesn't matter.

[lagomorph777]

20. She's lying, bless her.

[RedSpartan]

16. 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

[lastlib]

19. Don't you feel small?

It happens to us all.....

[Nictuku]

22. Another interesting Perspective

[MoonRiver]

23. +1000

[genxlib]

24. Can we have your liver then

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