Pale Blue Dot and the most important image ever taken

[Think]

After reading Cathy's thread, I remembered two very interesting youtube videos I watched a while back. Puts everything into perspective. Sorry if this is a re-post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw&feature=related

Edit: The guy who made the second video actually lives in Boulder.

[mtnairlover]

I wanted to see if I could find the script for that video. It's not easy to find, so here's a tidbit from the video...

From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalism is nowhere in evidence...we are too small. On a scale of worlds humans are inconsequential. A thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.

...

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

Think of the endless cruelties visited of the inhabitants of one corner of this pixal 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. Think...of the rivers of blood spilled by all those Generals and Emperors so in --- triumph they can become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings...our imagined self-importance...the delusion 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.....

Watch the rest on your own.

Makes you think.

Thanks, Think...lol:)

Actually, I liked both videos.

[thatmofo]

Best post in awhile.

[Think]

How are they doing the subtitles in different languages without the transcript? Do they just watch the video over and over again?

[mtnairlover]

That...or they could just go here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Lol...I found that after the fact...tee hee...damn, I'm a freakin dork;-)

[Spiderman]

Nice... Reminds me of this saying:


We did not inherit the earth from our forefathers; we are borrowing it from our children.
8)

[Sortarican]

Earth: Mostly Harmless.

[PsychoMike]

we have a ship(thingy) 4 billion miles away?

[Sortarican]

Anyone ever watch the series "The Day The Universe Changed"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9OB3Lq-ig

or "Connections"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbCNycm0nQ

[Ghost]

Earth: Mostly Harmless.

Earthlings: Mostly Evil, (the rest is water).

[dirkterrell]

we have a ship(thingy) 4 billion miles away?

Voyager 1 is the most distant man-made object at about 10 billion miles.

Dirk

[Snowman]

I never had a good grasp of how small this planet really is until I thought about the Drake Equation (http://www.geocities.com/kwihnai/drake.htm).

The drake equation is an attempt to figure out how many other civilizations are out there that we may be able to talk to.

The numbers involved start out quite large however, once you get to the end of the equation the number of possible civilizations drop to very few. And when of divide that by the vastness of space we found out how alone we really are.

Carl here gives a good however, dated explanation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztl8CG3Sys&feature=related)

[Sortarican]

Voyager 1 is the most distant man-made object at about 10 billion miles.

Dirk
What!
If there's anything around here more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot now!

[Devaclis]

come on. Don't you remember when Vger tried to take over the enterprise and destroy earth?

[Snowman]

come on. Don't you remember when Vger tried to take over the enterprise and destroy earth?I only remember William Shatner in a white spandex suit.


Shhirver I was working hard to forget that image….

[puckstr]

Earthlings: Mostly Evil, (the rest is water).

Earthlings: Mostly Worthless (but taste like Chicken)

[PsychoMike]

im amazed that 1970's technology is doign that, absoluley amazing.