J.T.F.Robertson Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 http://graphics.boston.com/universal/bigpicture/pbd.jpg By way of comparison, to really put us Earthlings in our place in the Grand Scheme, please have a look at another famous image, the Pale Blue Dot - a photograph taken of the Earth (the tiny pale speck, top center) by Voyager 1 in 1990 from 4 billion miles away (about 6 light-hours). I will finish with the words of astronomer Carl Sagan about this Pale Blue 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." http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/hubble_space_telescope_advent.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth_Hearts Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Its all far too mind boggling to think about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbankboy Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Interesting post. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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