Forum / deep space...

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  Matt Dennison

  Jul 08, 09:23am

  "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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".

  --Carl Sagan

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  Maryanne Stahl

  Jul 08, 09:39am

  that's lovely.

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  Kevin Myrick

  Jul 08, 10:13am

  Excellent quote from Carl Sagan.

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 08, 12:03pm

  The scientist as poet. Then again, how can you not be both as one expression compels the other? Thanks for posting this, Matt.

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  Matt Dennison

  Jul 08, 12:09pm

  It damn near brings me to tears every time I read it...

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  Gloria Mindock

  Jul 08, 12:17pm

  Liked this. Amazing!

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  Darryl Price

  Jul 08, 03:18pm

  .."a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam"." That just about says it all.

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