The Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

[Lady Gaga]

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I have no idea how you guys would react to this essay by Carl Sagan, talking about the planet we live in. Yes, I'm talking about the Pale Blue Dot.

For the benefit of those who doesn't know what I'm talking about, lemme share to you this picture of the Pale Blue Dot, after which, will be the essay Carl Sagan has created. The reflections.

This made me cry, and realized, that being so self important is delusional, in the universal scale. Kay ngano, in-ana na jud ta kaspecial? That's what I'm talking about. We are nothing but a speck of dust in the vast cosmic arena.

“Consider again 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 “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 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.

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.

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.

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. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we’ve ever known, the pale blue dot”

Perhaps you would want a video to reflect more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY...ayer_embedded#!
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My opinion, this 3 minute speech of Carl Sagan is better than the Bible.
Carl Sagan, you are terribly missed.

[kit_cebu]

can someone give some love to this person?

i think he needs this type of love..... -> <-

[mokiloo]

closing or locking this thread

hahahahahaha

[hitch22]

Carl Sagan's one of my heroes. He was the iconic popularizer of science in the latter part of the 20th century. If you want an example of a person giving unselfishly, and his recipient paying that favor forward, watch this interview with Carl's famous pupil, Neil deGrasse Tyson:

Carl Sagan's influence on Neil deGrasse Tyson

You know the impact Carl had by the way people who knew him talk about him.

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

@ MARK VILLANUEVA aka LADY GAGA

If you could have left the spot where your second to the last statement is located with inspirational messages and the likes , everything should have been in place to make this a medium of learning from everyone yet you FAILED again on my instructions .

You dont BREW HATE here , not in my forum and most specially where I love to hang out . GENERAL CHIT CHAT .

The next THREAD you will start will be meticulously checked by me . Kakita lang ko gamay na SPECK just like the BLUE DOT you are talking about , I will not only lock the thread but will BAN you also for not taking heed of the RULES and REGULATIONS of the forums . If it takes for you to make a million usernames , I dont mind getting rid of you a billion times .

Take this a warning .

HAPPY POSTING Mr. MARK VILLANUEVA !!

[yiennahs]

you are special.. you just don't know how special you are because no one made you feel special

we are all special and we all deserve to be one

[pinoy_09]

Y'all should start watching the series Cosmos, if you haven't yet.

[3nZ0y]

It would just depend on how you view it: either you view the pale blue dot from afar or look IN it. Yes, we are nothing but 'dust', but I believe that these 'dust' are interconnected and whatever action one 'tiny dust' does will affect almost everyone may it be positive or negative. Personally, I don't think you need to look far, just look around. Live life and appreciate it.

(Note: Just goes to show how egoistic I am. )

OT: Welcome back gaga! Wala pa jud diay ka nitagam. Hope magbehave na ka....

[danver2099]

well, all i can see is a pale blue dot, thats all there is...

[-shinobi-]

@ MARK VILLANUEVA aka LADY GAGA

If you could have left the spot where your second to the last statement is located with inspirational messages and the likes , everything should have been in place to make this a medium of learning from everyone yet you FAILED again on my instructions .

You dont BREW HATE here , not in my forum and most specially where I love to hang out . GENERAL CHIT CHAT .

The next THREAD you will start will be meticulously checked by me . Kakita lang ko gamay na SPECK just like the BLUE DOT you are talking about , I will not only lock the thread but will BAN you also for not taking heed of the RULES and REGULATIONS of the forums . If it takes for you to make a million usernames , I dont mind getting rid of you a billion times .

Take this a warning .

HAPPY POSTING Mr. MARK VILLANUEVA !!

offtopic: unsa diay problema sa iya gipost? murag wala may problema. why ingon ani imu reaction? pwede imu ipakita unsa iya sayop?

peace out