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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeparting earth, as photographed by Messenger.
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Departing earth, as photographed by Messenger. (Original Post)
alfredo
Aug 2013
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)1. Truly beautiful...
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)2. What a beautiful Home.
Thanks for posting this. It helped start my day with a deep sense of reverence for the fact that I am alive.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)3. We're a little dot in an uncaring void. Neato!
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)4. Impersonal, yes. But
I think (perceive) the Void as being all possibilities rather than an nilistic nothing.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)5. Yeah, whatever ;)
I don't really mind that we are an insignificant dot in a sea of black. It drives home the idea that we cannot just pick up and move when we deplete local resources, we have to come to grips with our population and wasteful consumerism.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)6. Yes, we are insignificant, but if you look at life
on a quantum level, we change the wave of particles of the universe. Causes and conditions. I guess we could also set the causes and conditions of extinguishing life as we know it; but the universe will keep on expanding and contracting.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)8. I noticed a butterfly out there changing the course of history.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)7. Leaving standard orbit Captain
alfredo
(60,065 posts)9. I do the same, but only on weekends.