Internet Jesus Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 <img src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/41/350px-PaleBlueDot.jpg"> I'm not sure how this site takes its code, but THIS http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp...PaleBlueDot.jpg is the furthest photo ever taken from earth, of earth. Just look at that and think about it for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Harley Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2001/PaleBlueDot_6-01.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I'm sure a fundie would tell me that seeing this and being an atheist I must be filled with depression and nihilism. Actually, it makes me so excited to be alive in our amazing universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internet Jesus Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 I'm sure a fundie would tell me that seeing this and being an atheist I must be filled with depression and nihilism. Actually, it makes me so excited to be alive in our amazing universe. Nihilism fills me with extreme. Extreme high and extreme low. This photo makes me happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outback Jack Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 From http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2001/PaleBlueDot_6-01.html 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. Damn, that's just f-ing beautiful. And to think, just as I see this picture, I'm writing to a fundy who thinks, because I don't believe in his particular sky-sugar-daddy, "Why even exist, then? Why hold value to life? Why should one persons life be of more significance over others? Why do they [non-Christians] even get up in the morning and do anything? For what reason?†How does one compare and contrast the philosophies? I'm tempted to give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Harley Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Carl Sagan had the soul of a poet... no doubt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PandaPirate Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 <img src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/41/350px-PaleBlueDot.jpg"> I'm not sure how this site takes its code, but THIS http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp...PaleBlueDot.jpg is the furthest photo ever taken from earth, of earth. Just look at that and think about it for a while. The first time I saw this photo was as a fundie watching the DVD "Indescribable." It's rays from the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PandaPirate Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 <img src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/41/350px-PaleBlueDot.jpg"> I'm not sure how this site takes its code, but THIS http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp...PaleBlueDot.jpg is the furthest photo ever taken from earth, of earth. Just look at that and think about it for a while. How can you take a picture of earth from the earth? If I'm correct, that picture was taken from Voyager 1 as it sailed away from earth. Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophronia Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 How can you take a picture of earth from the earth? If I'm correct, that picture was taken from Voyager 1 as it sailed away from earth. Am I missing something? yah i don't get it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Harley Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I think he just got carried away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Harley Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 For the HGTTG fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Sagan helped me in my deconversion more than any other scientist. And it probably had a lot to do with his way with words. Yes, he had the heart of a poet, Gramps, that's for sure. It would do well for humanity as a whole to substitute the bible with Demon Haunted World... R.I.P., C.S. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCrystal Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Most of my friends think I'm a complete dork because I watch the old "Cosmos" shows sometimes because Carl Sagan's words did sound much like poetry and not so much like "lajsdfdji" which is what much of scientific stuff sounds to me... But I don't care. He was and still is COOL. As for the picture, it makes me happy when I look at it. It's just amazing... and I'm about to head off to bed, so lovely, happy thoughts when I go to bed thanks to the picture... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outback Jack Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Sagan helped me in my deconversion more than any other scientist. And it probably had a lot to do with his way with words. Yes, he had the heart of a poet, Gramps, that's for sure. It would do well for humanity as a whole to substitute the bible with Demon Haunted World... R.I.P., C.S. R.I.P. Ditto. I was never xtian, but I was mired in other pseudo-scientific claptrap. I just happened to read "Demon Haunted World" right before I read a pro-UFO book. That was the last of my belief in anything without evidence! Thank Pasta for Carl Sagan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandermac Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 When I see that picture and that of the Hubble deep field it's the closest I'll ever be to a "religious" experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWIM Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 When I see that picture and that of the Hubble deep field it's the closest I'll ever be to a "religious" experience. I have been interested in astronomy lately as well, fascinating stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godlessgrrl Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I love that pic. I've got a copy of it taped up on my desk. It's probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a Total Perspective Vortex... 'Nuther favorite is the first portrait of Earth, taken on one of the Apollo missions... just a pretty blue marble floating in blackest space. Both leave me with a wistful ache, and a great reminder that most of what we worry about is probably self-absorbed bullshit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thespankguy Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 How can you take a picture of earth from the earth? If I'm correct, that picture was taken from Voyager 1 as it sailed away from earth. Am I missing something? I think he meant "this is the furthest from earth a photo has ever been taken of earth" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexton Blake Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Two sites which put the Earth into perspective : http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMV_zDQaq9o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexton Blake Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Larry King said that Pat Robertson and Jerry Fulwell (those two great creationist brains) stated that Earth is the only planet in the universe with intelligent life on it. Let's see, God makes maybe a trillion, trillion planets (10^24) and puts intelligent life on only one of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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