//ArrowChat Code
Results 1 to 9 of 9

Thread: Who Are Your Neighbors?

  1. #1
    Arky-X is offline Just Too Addicted Arm chair racerJust too addicted
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Location
    Arkansas
    --
    529

    Who Are Your Neighbors?

    People that live on your street, your community, your city. This kind of changes that definition a bit.

    https://www.designluck.com/pale-blue-dot/


    When the Voyager 1 probe was 3.7 billion miles from Earth, Carl Sagan made a request.

    He asked NASA to turn it around to snap a quick photograph. The result was a faint image of Earth surrounded by the vastness of space. The late astronomer would then use this picture to share his own reflections on what it meant and why it was important for us to capture.

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	PaleBlueDot.jpg 
Views:	34 
Size:	48.9 KB 
ID:	250833


    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.

    The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. 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.

    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.

    The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. 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. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
    ” -- Carl Sagan

  2. #2
    Join Date
    May 2006
    Location
    The Open Road
    --
    4,729
    That doesn't look like flat Earth at all

    In all seriousness, it really makes all our petty drama on this little rock dreadfully irrelevant, doesn't it?

    Sent from my Z958 using Tapatalk

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Oct 2002
    Location
    Northeast
    --
    17,438
    ^ A 300EX at that.....
    All our government does is distract us while they steal from us, misspend our tax $ and ruin our country

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Location
    Seattle, Washington
    --
    1,544
    I thought this was about Sesame Street:

    https://youtu.be/Dd9L_o_WLJY

  5. #5
    Scootertrash's Avatar
    Scootertrash is offline Just Too Addicted: Protecting Our Community The day begins with 3WW
    Join Date
    Apr 2011
    Location
    In the sticks
    --
    4,627
    Quote Originally Posted by glamy View Post
    Yeah kinda makes ya feel like your ridin a 4stroke quad .....
    Quote Originally Posted by fabiodriven View Post
    Trick the people into thinking they're enacting their own will and you have willing slaves.

    Liberalism suspends the intellect of its victims, while at the same time tricking them into believing that they're smarter than everyone else.


    If we've done business together, please leave me feedback. Thank You!:

    http://www.3wheelerworld.com/showthr...t=Scootertrash

  6. #6
    Scootertrash's Avatar
    Scootertrash is offline Just Too Addicted: Protecting Our Community The day begins with 3WW
    Join Date
    Apr 2011
    Location
    In the sticks
    --
    4,627
    Quote Originally Posted by glamy View Post
    And if the band your in starts playin different tunes .........i`ll see you on the dark side of the moon !.........
    glamy, I dedicate this song to you

    Quote Originally Posted by fabiodriven View Post
    Trick the people into thinking they're enacting their own will and you have willing slaves.

    Liberalism suspends the intellect of its victims, while at the same time tricking them into believing that they're smarter than everyone else.


    If we've done business together, please leave me feedback. Thank You!:

    http://www.3wheelerworld.com/showthr...t=Scootertrash

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Nov 2013
    Location
    Oxford CT, New Haven County
    --
    983
    whew! I sure am glad i read the OP before I started describing all my neighbors to you all....

//ArrowChat Integreation Code //