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Anonymous Wed Jan 26 21:58:17 2011 No.2421277 [Reply] [Original]

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 supreme leader, every superstar, 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.

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Anonymous Wed Jan 26 21:58:17 2011 No.2421285

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.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 21:59:17 2011 No.2421294 Isn't there a poli sci board somewhere?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 21:59:17 2011 No.2421295 can we have your liver then?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 21:59:17 2011 No.2421297 Its like im really watching a convenient lie.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:13:17 2011 No.2421418 deep, bro

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Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:23:17 2011 No.2421517

All that studying astronomy teaches us is that everything is relative. The fact is, from our perspective, our
Consciousness is the most important thing in the entire
Universe. We should have nothing but pity, not awe, for the vastness of space, because it has nothing of value (that we know of so far) and our planet has it all - A species of sentient, self aware beings.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:24:17 2011 No.2421527 >>2421295 watch meaning of life lately bro

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:26:17 2011 No.2421555 Couple things, the Earth is small in our solar system let alone any other comparisons. But at the same time, as far as we know we are the only sentient life in the universe, so I think we can afford to feel a little important.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:28:17 2011 No.2421576 Why hasn't OP credited Carl Sagan, yet?

>>	Wed Jan 26 22:29:17 2011 No.2421590 >>2421576 Because he wants everyone to be like this: >>2421418

>>	Xlore !!oIaXoksOFZm Wed Jan 26 22:30:17 2011 No.2421598 File: 1.22 MB, 633x475, 1287834645679.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2421555 >>2421517 >Thinks we're the only ones. You two obviously don't understand how big the universe is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:32:17 2011 No.2421619 >>2421598 Maybe the biggest.

>>	None !j9b1nEwFag Wed Jan 26 22:49:17 2011 No.2421781 >>2421598 >that we know so far >as far as we know >Thinks we're the only ones. you are a faggot troll, you should feel bad about it

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Xlore !!oIaXoksOFZm Wed Jan 26 22:55:17 2011 No.2421835
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>>2421781
Saying as far as we know means you have doubts.

I have no doubts that we are not the only ones. I just have no proof, same as everyone else.

But either way I still am a faggot apparently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 22:59:17 2011 No.2421871 >>2421598 Yep. If people think we are the only intelligent ones out here then they are egotistical, self-centered, & closed minded dopes. I mean, We can't be IT. Hope not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 23:02:17 2011 No.2421888 Your self-deprecation is duly noted. I stand with you as another faggot. I mean..really..We really can't be IT. There's gotta be something more intel than we are. Look at us...we've become pathetic on the whole.

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Xlore !!oIaXoksOFZm Wed Jan 26 23:06:17 2011 No.2421911
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>>2421888
>self-deprecation

Oh i still applaud ourselves, i mean to be able to evolve to this level of intelligence is rare.
I just know there are others with the same intelligence or higher.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 23:06:17 2011 No.2421914 >>2421871 Statistics strongly suggest that we are not alone. The universe is very very big.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 23:09:17 2011 No.2421929 >>2421914 >Statistics You mean the ones where we did a survey of a significant number of planets to determine the probability that a planet will develop life?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 26 23:12:17 2011 No.2421943 File: 8 KB, 197x256, HEAD UP ASS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2421929 Here we go...