Reflect on this...

[TremendousLion]

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.

Taken from https://planetary.org/bluedot_poster.html

This is something I've always believed very deeply in. Astronomy humbles a person. We are one planet, we are humanity. When you think of how small we are in comparison to the mere fraction of space that we've uncovered, it shocks me that there are people who believe that we're the only planet in existence with life. It is kind of amazing how much we value ourselves when we're not even a blip on the radar of the universe. We barely exist. And yet ours is the only world that matters to us, that we even acknowledge.

 

[Sexy Beast]

This is something I've always believed very deeply in. Astronomy humbles a person. We are one planet, we are humanity. When you think of how small we are in comparison to the mere fraction of space that we've uncovered, it shocks me that there are people who believe that we're the only planet in existence with life. It is kind of amazing how much we value ourselves when we're not even a blip on the radar of the universe. We barely exist. And yet ours is the only world that matters to us, that we even acknowledge.

Here is the thing:

We may exist on a piss-ant planet that is orbiting one of a billion stars that is located in one of a trillion galaxies, but none of this matters. For the same exact reason why I don't figure out the GDP of Tajikistan before deciding which bar I go out to. In the grand scheme of things the Universe could either be it's giant expansive self or just consist of this one solar system and it wouldn't have an effect on my life at all.

As long as the sun is burning hydrogen and the moon is moving away from Earth at an inch or less a year than I'm good.

 

[Passerby]

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.

Taken from https://planetary.org/bluedot_poster.html

This is something I've always believed very deeply in. Astronomy humbles a person. We are one planet, we are humanity. When you think of how small we are in comparison to the mere fraction of space that we've uncovered, it shocks me that there are people who believe that we're the only planet in existence with life. It is kind of amazing how much we value ourselves when we're not even a blip on the radar of the universe. We barely exist. And yet ours is the only world that matters to us, that we even acknowledge.

you don't need to look to space to be humbled like that, and that's why i love where i live in a hour i can be out of the city and away from anything man made and on a beach looking at one of the most beautiful landscapes, it's nice especially when im really stressed to be able to get away there, and realize that i am just as insignificant as one of the grains of sand at my feet, that these huge pieces of granite have been there before there were ever people on this world and will still be there after we are all dead. I love that feeling and it helps so much when trying to deal with the stress of work and life that it is all no more significant than a grain of sand in the end.

 

[iEye Captain]

Here is the thing:

We may exist on a piss-ant planet that is orbiting one of a billion stars that is located in one of a trillion galaxies, but none of this matters. For the same exact reason why I don't figure out the GDP of Tajikistan before deciding which bar I go out to. In the grand scheme of things the Universe could either be it's giant expansive self or just consist of this one solar system and it wouldn't have an effect on my life at all.

As long as the sun is burning hydrogen and the moon is moving away from Earth at an inch or less a year than I'm good.

GDP of Tajikistan is $5.13 Billion USD at current prices.

 

[SingularPoint]

You would think, that with the money Nasa and other Space-Centric places have. They would be able to afford a half decent SLR.

 

[Carmine]

What I want to know is how we get those pictures of ourselves from so far away!

 

[blackhawksniper]

What I want to know is how we get those pictures of ourselves from so far away!

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This

 

[maiella]

Sorry that the trolls have come out and attacked your post lion. Nice post and I appreciate it. It always helps to see the world from another glance. It puts life in prospective and whatever is upsetting you aside. Thank you.

PS I like your Avatar! what is it?

 

[Sexy Beast]

What I want to know is how we get those pictures of ourselves from so far away!

It's from the Voyager 2, which as of January 2010 is pretty close to leaving our solar system. Or 89.41AU away from our sun.

Sorry that the trolls have come out and attacked your post lion. Nice post and I appreciate it. It always helps to see the world from another glance. It puts life in prospective and whatever is upsetting you aside. Thank you.

PS I like your Avatar! what is it?

I'm not trolling, I simply think that it's a flawed perspective.

 

[Flippy the Squirrel]

I like that photo, and your thoughts. It reminded me of an Albert Einstein story (that I've been unfortunately unable to locate) in which Einstein was asked at a lecture about his perspective on such things.

I'm paraphrasing badly, but essentially, the questioner asked, "how can you avoid feeling petty and insignificant when compared to the grand scale of the universe?" to which Einstein replied, "because I remember that the I am the observer."

 

[Angstrom]

Space is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. No other words to describe.

Some people like to stare at the night sky for hours, to think that every single star is a sun for someone else. Some people like to think there's something bigger out there, places nobody ever stepped a foot on, places that will never see the light. Some people like to admire the grand events of physics that happen out there. Imagine all the materials we don't know? Yet we think Diamonds are the best.
Other people admire the beauty of our earth, that is indeed beautiful. Particular from any other planet.

Two separate kinds of beauty, it can't be compared.