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(36,078 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)one of the BIG BLUE MARBLE segments. I wonder whether she made her goals, or if they changed along the way...
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Brilliant. Fearless. Patriot. Human.
Thanks for the heads-up on that quote, woo me with science! For some reason, I had never read the last sentence before.
Something else on the subject of our blue sphere as seen from space:
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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." -- Carl Sagan
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)myself King of infinite space. Except I have bad dreams."
Kudos to you for the Sagan quote
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)for posting this.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)It puts my Sunday - and everything else - into perspective.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)wag put it in replying to the Fundy crazies: "Why wait for the Rapture? Leave now!"
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)We are so arrogant about our endless political shenanigans. What we fail to realize is that, in the grand scheme of things, all our teeth gnashing and pontification mean exactly nothing. This too shall pass, and very, very soon.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Thank you.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Wow.
bhikkhu
(10,708 posts)but this one is an easy call - k&r
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)This reflects exactly how I'm feeling today.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)meti57b
(3,584 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)There have been many. The Dalai Lama is one, though he seems untortured by this world, which is amazing to me.
Why do they usually die young? Is this world just too awful for them? Bill Hicks was a friend of my father in law. He was the real deal but he was so tortured. It destroyed him that he couldn't wake us up. Goodness knows, he tried.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)thanks for posting that, hadn't seen anything of Bill Hicks before.
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roamer65
(36,739 posts)I will never forget the transit of Venus. Once in a lifetime event. It was amazing.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)to the moon. Might leave them there.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Thanks for the thread, woo me with science.
nikto
(3,284 posts)Thanks!
gtar100
(4,192 posts)greedy investor who wants to be rich without working for it, without producing anything of value with their time and energy. Convince those people to stop being such assholes and the politicians will follow. (With apologies to the few politicians who work tirelessly against the madness of our self-destruction.)