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mitch96

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9. I like Carl Sagan's comment about our "Pale Blue Dot"

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue May 17, 2022, 08:18 AM

May 2022

"Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives," Sagan later wrote. "On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

The last picture NASA's Voyager1 space craft took was of us... 4 BILLION miles from us
The resulting image, with the Earth as a speck less than 0.12 pixels in size,
became known as "the pale blue dot."

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Did you ever look at the moon and think, Henry VIII saw the moon, [View all] raccoon May 2022 OP

I always think about who walked and rode through the London parks, and beyond, before me. Siwsan May 2022 #1

I have an ancestor who perhaps met Henry VIII bucolic_frolic May 2022 #2

And a hundred generations from now, someone Croney May 2022 #3

And they all died IronLionZion May 2022 #4

OMG! Pobeka May 2022 #12

I gave it a try. I thought of the moon, Henry VIII, and his move and empedocles May 2022 #5

In bible school we looked at the stars and imagined the shepherds' wonder at the... FailureToCommunicate May 2022 #6

I've seen 2001 and read the book..... lastlib May 2022 #7

This reminds me of a song sung by Neil Diamond "Done to Soon" Delmette2.0 May 2022 #8

I like Carl Sagan's comment about our "Pale Blue Dot" mitch96 May 2022 #9

Ha ha, ya can't see me. 3Hotdogs May 2022 #10

Tag! you're it!!! nanny nanny boo boo.... mitch96 May 2022 #11

'Under the Same Moon'. It's a very good movie about a young Mexican boy looking for his mother. panader0 May 2022 #13

When I read an classic book, I think about the people who read it throughout history. IrishEyes May 2022 #14

Ashes to ashes, VGNonly May 2022 #15

I asked my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great KS Toronado May 2022 #16

He was looking at the moon, but ... eppur_se_muova May 2022 #17

From time to time. malthaussen May 2022 #18

I just think that everyone who ever lived on earth who could SEE saw the sun and moon and stars Skittles May 2022 #19

When I look at the moon, wnylib May 2022 #20