Pale Blue Dot

[NeoGreen]

[samnsara]

1. i have always loved this... i got the poster for my teen grand daughter, she loves it...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. EVERY leader, EVERY tin-pot dictator, EVERY would-be prophet....

Indeed, ALL OF US, should listen to this and watch the beautiful images, EVERY DAY..........

So that our arrogance and all the ignorant ravings we all possess would be brought into sharp focus as we contrast them to the wisdom of Carl Sagan...

This pale blue dot. Our only home.


We must remember.

Or we will hasten our demise.


K&R

[Bladewire]

3. Puts things in perspective perfectly

The big picture

[TeapotInATempest]

4. Thanks for posting this; I haven't seen it for years

It manages to be both inspiring and to underscore what an absurd species we are, doesn't it?

I, personally, am fiercely attached to our pale blue dot and all its creatures.

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. You rang?

[NeoGreen]

6. Yes...

...yes I did.

[renate]

9. that was adorable!

[tavernier]

7. We won't destroy it

We will only destroy ourselves

Once we're gone, earth will heal itself and go on without us. Perhaps not a bad thing. Maybe eventually a wiser species will come along.

[Delphinus]

8. Lately,

too many days I think the same thing you do. The Earth will be fine and perhaps the next species will do a better job.

[tavernier]

10. Ozymandias

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

[Brainstormy]

11. How do you copy that

without all the youtube verbiage?

[NeoGreen]

12. Luck, I guess...

...I searched for cosmos and Sagan on google and selected the first one that popped up that was a youtube video that looked "clean".

I just copied the URL and pasted it directly into my post.

Apologies, if my answer isn't as helpful as it should have been.