Pale Blue Dot

[vNmd]

I don't want to get preachy or make it appear to have a hand out, but there is a non-profit organization called penny4nasa (.org). They are trying to get the budget for nasa increased to 1% of the national budget. NASA made it possible to capture the pic of the pale blue dot. If they had some decent funding just imagine what they could do next.

I have no affiliation with that org. I just think it is a good idea.

Mods: if this is a no-no please delete my post.

 

[passedpawn]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M[/ame]

 

[passedpawn]

Our sun seems big and significant. But consider what it looks like from a few planets away.

 

[MaddBaggins]

Pretty. Damn. Small.

Thats how it makes me feel.
Reminds me of that scene at the end of MIB where the alien has a bag full of marbles, each containing a galaxy.

 

[MaddBaggins]

On a related note, do you ever visit APOD? I have it bookmarked and check it out every day. I've saved many of the images and use them for wallpapers on my phone/computer.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Todays pic.

 

[passedpawn]

On a related note, do you ever visit APOD? I have it bookmarked and check it out every day. I've saved many of the images and use them for wallpapers on my phone/computer.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Todays pic.

No, I haven't. Checking it out now

I'm not a fan of that picture above because I think two moons with opposite crescents like that are impossible - the crescents would be on the same side. Even with two suns, I don't think that image could happen.

 

[MaddBaggins]

No, I haven't. Checking it out now

I'm not a fan of that picture above because I think two moons with opposite crescents like that are impossible - the crescents would be on the same side. Even with two suns, I don't think that image could happen.

The drawings usually seem a little fantastical. My favorites are the Hubble images.

 

[unionrdr]

What Sagan said reminds me of what George C Scott said in Patton; The conqueror rides triumphantly into the city on his chariot, driving the day's slaves in chains before him. A boy beside him holding a velvet pillow, bearing a golden crown & whispering in his ear, a warning. That all glory, is fleeting...pretty much sums up the human condition.