/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2703914]

This thread is dedicated to pure awe of the universe and everything.

Look at that galaxy how beautiful it is.

[Anonymous No.2703924]

It's hard to have any awe for a fake picture.

Maybe if it was a skilfully painted image but not a computer generated thing.

[Anonymous No.2703921]

inb4 Sagan

[Anonymous No.2703939]

>>2703924
>implying photoshop and that painter wasn't created by universe

[Anonymous No.2703958]

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. 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.

[Anonymous No.2703962]

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 No.2703969]

aweee

[Anonymous No.2703989]

>>2703958
Forgot pic? I lol'd anyway.

Also, bump!

[Anonymous No.2704034]

>>2703969
oh I wish I could live on the Mars ;______; it's so pulchritudinous

[Anonymous No.2704072]

and pluto so cold but so mysterious :3

[Anonymous No.2704103]

I wonder if there is any life on Europa.....

[Anonymous No.2704153]

But don't forget Jupiter!

[Anonymous No.2704188]

Venus

[Anonymous No.2704204]

Hey guys.

What's in the center of our galaxy? I'm not talking specifically about the super massive black hole, but all that bright, dense, white section?

>inb4 Collector Base

[Anonymous No.2704218]

caring loving solar system in which we float like baby in the womb

[Anonymous No.2704238]

>>2704103

I wonder if they drink semen there, like their terrestrial cousins...

[Anonymous No.2704286]

Universe is ugly cold stupid fucking place. Please die.

[Anonymous No.2704338]