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.....Dr Carl Sagan Orders Nasa to Turn Voyager around to take some photos of Earth after passing Saturn,. The text is what he Said while commenting on the resulting images.
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 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 is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, However satisfying and Reassuring. ..Dr Carl Sagan.
Hometown:
UTOPIA
Country:
British Virgin Islands
Interests:
24/11/2010 "Sun' Spots"?...
Books:
Tin Hat Protection
Or worse!, ...Allow world leaders to be lead by a banking sytem that plays games with real money, In ever increasing games of Astronomical proportions > 25trillion in <5years? .."Moon Shot" anyone...
But it's mixed with hopelessness. People are upset, but they are vaguely aware that the problem is so huge, and that the class that has created the problem is so powerful, that nothing short of a war is likely to make significant changes.People don't really want war. Not yet. Too many people alive today have too many fond recollections of better times. They are unwilling to resign themselves to the inevitable period of chaos that major social changes would entail. My guess is that there will be war when a generation has grown up knowing nothing except these conditions, without any firsthand memory of better times. That's when the storm will break
Blessed be.