Departing earth, as photographed by Messenger.

[alfredo]

This is an incredible short slideshow.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Truly beautiful...

[BlueToTheBone]

2. What a beautiful Home.

Thanks for posting this. It helped start my day with a deep sense of reverence for the fact that I am alive.

[alfredo]

3. We're a little dot in an uncaring void. Neato!

[BlueToTheBone]

4. Impersonal, yes. But

I think (perceive) the Void as being all possibilities rather than an nilistic nothing.

[alfredo]

5. Yeah, whatever ;)

I don't really mind that we are an insignificant dot in a sea of black. It drives home the idea that we cannot just pick up and move when we deplete local resources, we have to come to grips with our population and wasteful consumerism.

[BlueToTheBone]

6. Yes, we are insignificant, but if you look at life

on a quantum level, we change the wave of particles of the universe. Causes and conditions. I guess we could also set the causes and conditions of extinguishing life as we know it; but the universe will keep on expanding and contracting.

[alfredo]

8. I noticed a butterfly out there changing the course of history.

[Fumesucker]

7. Leaving standard orbit Captain

[alfredo]

9. I do the same, but only on weekends.