JerBearz
Jeremy   Washington, United States
 
 
Blah blah blah....you sound like a bunch of A-holes. The whole lot of you. How do you sleep at night? The arrogance......the audacity! The internet has made us too prideful, delusional and far to narcissistic. ♥♥♥♥ pride, the universe is full of chaos. There is no other rational answer but what happened after time began. This is beyond the 3-dimensional thinking of our sapien brain. A collaboration of human knowledge thirty-thousand years in the making has led us to write down every fact or fiction for the past 5500 years. It led us to the age of the universe. To the evidence of the Big Bang Theory.

"Pride definition: a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired, and the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance."

In Feb 1990 Voyager 1 took one last picture of Earth; it was just a PALE BLUE DOT, a tiny blueish-white speck of a crescent a mere 0.12 pixel in size in an image that contains 640,000 pixels:

Carl Sagan later wrote his speech to humanity in 1994:
"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, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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Jirena 14 Oct, 2012 @ 3:31pm 
I wish I could. I only have Borderlands 1 :(