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This video, and most like it, make me tear up. It seems as time goes on, I come to this place (the sift) more and more just to get my fill of all that is wrong with people on this planet. It's great to feel a sense of purpose by showing myself who and what I'm up against in this world, but from creation science to multinational corporate control to a disinterested population growing out of control, it can get a little overwhelming. When I'm confronted with how amazing things really are around here, geologically or otherwise, I still get wide-eyed and I feel like I'm in fourth grade again, learning that earthworms can actually regrow parts of their bodies. I guess this place is a real mixed bag, and the extremes are getting more and more extreme. Or maybe I'm just growing older and seeing things a little differently.
Or maybe I've just got problems.
Anyway, thanks for a touch of the old catharsis, Eric. Sometimes, I think we're all guilty of forgetting what's good.
The *music is really perfect too.
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
When you watch it, put yourself in the mindset that you are viewing footage captured on some alien planet. It really makes you appreciate it so much more.
Billions of years have wrought a civilization of beings lucky enough to truly appreciate such beauty. Can you do that, SiftBot? Didn't think so.
*doublepromote to inspire awe in everyone else.
I'm tempted to say the I can't vote for it because if you type (pale+blue+dot) into the search window, you'll get seven other clips like it. And that's not accounting for all the ones that are inappropriately tagged.
That being said, I still never get tired of watching them. I love that feeling I get when I stare into space through some hubble image or try to imagine the sheer scale of what we can see. I love that there is so much out there that we don't know. I wish everyone else was as humbled by it as some of you appear to be.
I'll shut now, but I still think this video is brilliant