My World-From Saturn!

[Suff]

NASA's Cassini took this photograph of Earth. Our home. First you need to look just inside the furtherest outer ring, about 60% up, over to the right. You see that little white dot? Inside the purple outer ring? That's us! LMAO:lol: .

Makes everything we fear, seem so insignificant.


Explanation: What's that pale blue dot in this image taken from Saturn? Earth. The robotic Cassini spacecraft looked back toward its old home world earlier this month as it orbited Saturn. Using Saturn itself to block the bright Sun, Cassini imaged a faint dot on the right of the above photograph. That dot is expanded on the image inset, where a slight elongation in the direction of Earth's Moon is visible. Vast water oceans make Earth's reflection of sunlight somewhat blue. Earth is home to over six billion humans and over one octillion Prochlorococcus

[Suff]

And here's another famous image taken of our home planet from deep space by the Voyager spacecraft along with some commentary by Carl Sagan

[Suff]

Carl Sagan

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

[JPinMaryland]

From the title of the thread I thought you had relocated..

[Suff]

From the title of the thread I thought you had relocated..

Look at these pictures: Try and wrap your head around how small we are.

[Tom]

How small we are?
WE sent that out there to take the pic of us.....not too shabby. See any boundries in that those photos? We don't know any.
We even have a little guy on MARS sending us data and taking orders what to do next.
:ThmbUp: us!

[JustRalph]

How small we are?
WE sent that out there to take the pic of us.....not too shabby. See any boundries in that those photos? We don't know any.
We even have a little guy on MARS sending us data and taking orders what to do next.
:ThmbUp: us!

the fact that those two Mar's rovers are still going impresses the hell out of me