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  • Powerful words by Carl Sagan | Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers

    Years ago, I was on a camping trip & life was, for one reason or another, causing me to feel burdened by my own reality and that of the world around me. I remember staring up at a sky full of stars, seldom seen with such clarity by a young man from a big city. Something else became clear... more

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  • Rated by barryr666 on Aug 01, 1:26pm

    Powerful words indeed. I have seen this before but this site has a fuller transcript.

  • Rated by sreeelango on Jul 19, 8:54pm

    powerful words by carl sagan

  • Rated by sasiart on Jul 13, 4:56am

    From the page: "Powerful words by Carl Sagan"

  • Rated by Torchiest on Apr 09 2009, 6:34pm

    Seen it many times, but it's still profound.

  • Rated by Chaotiqual on Apr 03 2009, 1:45am

    If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990. 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. 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. - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 Thank you Brexians :)

  • Rated by VersesOverCoffee on Apr 02 2009, 9:02pm

    "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."

  • Rated by dnanos on Apr 02 2009, 10:25am

    Carl Sagan Thank you BREXIANS

  • Rated by gamkiller on Apr 01 2009, 1:28pm

    This certainly struck a cord with me, even after having seen this image before. Unfortunately I am (as usual) too drunk to fully review it. Oh the shame!

  • Rated by kenninger on Mar 30 2009, 5:47am

    I like it.