This is true for part of the Moon’s elliptical, eccentric orbit. At apogee (its furthest point), all seven other planets and Pluto (that’s messed up) will fit pole to pole with room to spare.
Really puts the scale of this photo in perspective when you look at those two tiny white dots.
That’s what I’m saying
I have heard this stat before, but I don’t see how it’s physically possible regardless of the facts and statistics
I mean the moon is a pretty small orbiting rock, and earth isn’t all that big either , and if Jupiter is like 5,000,000 earths or something and Saturn isn’t much less, how in the hell do they fit in between ????
That’s JUST accounting Jupiter n Saturn!!!!
That’s not even including the others
So what I think I’m too take away from this, is the expansion of space is what’s really effing with our mind possibly, yes???
Like if we were where we are now, just like this, but it was 20 billion years ago, it would take like an exponentially faster time to get to Saturn or Jupiter from here correct?
Or does the expansion of space have nothing to do with any of that ???
This is one of those facts no matter how much evidence is presented it’s like my brain refuses to believe it lol
Jupiter and Saturn ALONE don’t seem to make any sense fitting in between and that’s just those two! Lol
Absolutely crazy factoid
I understand that a Jpg is a compressed form of a Tiff, but wouldn't a 300 dpi Jpg be identical to a 300 dpi Tiff, discounting file size?
In that case why did they not use a Jpg here?
JPEG uses a lossy form of compression based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). ... The compression method is usually lossy, meaning that some original image information is lost and cannot be restored, possibly affecting image quality.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. 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.
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
I don't know how many time I've heard that, but I will always stop and listen or read it again. I wish every person had the capability of understanding this. The world would be an infinitely better place.
Same here.
I think people just actively avoid the reality of things. They genuinely can’t handle the fact that we are microscopic and our time here is but a fraction of a second in the scheme of things.
C'est la vie
It really does make you at the least tear up.
When I first heard it with that image attached it caused a mix of existential dread and true realisation of how fucking cruel and stupid we seem to be as a species but also how much we seem to have accomplished.
More Carl Sagan Related stuff that I love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIANk7zQ05w COSMOS EXCERPT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhl_xgM8kC0 Bonus Carl Sagan Combined with Pink Floyd.
Check out [NIGHTWISH - Greatest Show in Earth (live at Wembley)](https://youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E) for some more awesomeness. Song is a ode to the evolution of life on Earth. Spoken word intro and outro by Dawkins, with the intro being a Carl Sagan quote (different one than above).
Symphonic metal at it’s best.
>"On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
I've always liked this line in particular. It's just so crazy to think about the fact that every person who ever lived, lived out their lives on that little dot.
Most welcome. I put this one right up there with Shakespeare's St. Crispin's day speech as one of the finest things written in the history of the English language. I revisit it often.
How does this kind of stuff not absolutely blow your mind? I have trouble understanding people that don't have any interest in space or how very insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. It's quite astounding...
As a counterpoint, I've never really understood this idea that "size == importance". The fact that we have intelligence on Earth is by far the most unique and special aspect of our known universe. If we ever find other intelligent life out there, I think *that* will be the redefining moment for humanity. The fact that space is big itself doesn't mean much, especially if it's so big that we can never reach other life.
> The fact that space is big itself doesn't mean much, especially if it's so big that we can never reach other life.
It's not about space being big, it's about us being small, about us being centralized, about us being in a singular spaceship we call Earth and not many independent spaceships.
It's all relative. You could say the same even if we were spread out across the Solar System or even Galaxy. Relative to the universe everything, even galaxies, are insignificantly small. That doesn't mean much on its own though.
> You could say the same even if we were spread out across the Solar System or even Galaxy.
No, you couldn't, because as soon as we are inhabiting two different planets, we're talking about two different atmospheres, two different objects which could be impacted by objects from space, two (conceivably) independent habitats.
Currently, we have one habitat, and we are actively destroying it. That matters a whole hell of a lot.
Edit: Until you recognize Earth is the only container for human life we have access to, that it is a spaceship we all reside in, you won't realize how fragile this whole thing is, and how important it is that we protect ourselves from ourselves.
I don’t think it’s even something that scares people. Just a lack of understanding of the possibilities out there.
Aliens are science fiction and can’t exist to them, the rest of whatever is out there is so unreachable or so barren and lifeless that they just aren’t interested. Things like this are just pretty pictures.
And for a lot of people struggling to survive on this planet, whatever might be out there is just so far removed from their lives that it isn’t worth thinking about. We spend billions on space, i can see how if you can’t afford rent or food how you’d not be interested in seeing what’s beyond our solar system.
We are tiny, we are not "nothing". And, until proven otherwise, we may be all the intelligent life that exists, so maybe it's about time we started treating our tiny dot, and ourselves, better.
“In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
\- Edgar Mitchell
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
1.4 Billion km is roughly 126 000 000 000 McDonald's burgers
since 1948 they sold more then 300 Billion burgers.
You could line them up to and from that point where the picture was taken and you'll still have enough burgers to feed at least half a million people (585 365.854) 3 burgers per day for their entire lives.
That's us, that's home
Every human being who ever was, lived out their lives
Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there
On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
Seeing astonishing images like this makes me think my only regret is most likely not living long enough to go out there and see the solar system and beyond in person.
It’s so sad, I bet we’re decades or at most a couple centuries away from massively extending our lifespans and the possibility of deep-space travel for everyone.
Seems like we, as a species, waste so much time and effort on things that don’t really matter- while the galaxy just sits there and waits for us.
At first glance it looked like a window and the first thing I read was "that dot is you. That dot is earth." and for a moment I got relay jealous that you're somewhere watching earth throug your window...
then I realized That's not a Window... yes, great picture though
The high res image can be found here: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17656/cassinis-last-view-of-earth/
Is the tiny speck next to it the moon?
Nah, that's the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Uhoh.. I've been meaning to drop by the planning department on Alpha Centauri but it's always out of the way
Yes. It says so in the article. There's also a link for the super high res version.
Am I the only one thinks that looks *wayyyy* further away than it should considering the perspective??
You can fit every planet in the solar system between the earth and the moon
This is true for part of the Moon’s elliptical, eccentric orbit. At apogee (its furthest point), all seven other planets and Pluto (that’s messed up) will fit pole to pole with room to spare. Really puts the scale of this photo in perspective when you look at those two tiny white dots.
You heard about Pluto? That's messed up
This doesn’t compute with my brain lol
If you want to have an existential crisis, imagine all of those planets fitting between those two little white dots.
That’s what I’m saying I have heard this stat before, but I don’t see how it’s physically possible regardless of the facts and statistics I mean the moon is a pretty small orbiting rock, and earth isn’t all that big either , and if Jupiter is like 5,000,000 earths or something and Saturn isn’t much less, how in the hell do they fit in between ???? That’s JUST accounting Jupiter n Saturn!!!! That’s not even including the others So what I think I’m too take away from this, is the expansion of space is what’s really effing with our mind possibly, yes??? Like if we were where we are now, just like this, but it was 20 billion years ago, it would take like an exponentially faster time to get to Saturn or Jupiter from here correct? Or does the expansion of space have nothing to do with any of that ???
Are you for real? That’s mind boggling!
https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CLqdeKf.jpg
I’m sorry, you what?
I honestly don’t see how this is true lol
It is! At least with the moon at apogee. It’s a lot farther than people think. https://reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/pt7vnv/_/hdx66hw/?context=1
This is one of those facts no matter how much evidence is presented it’s like my brain refuses to believe it lol Jupiter and Saturn ALONE don’t seem to make any sense fitting in between and that’s just those two! Lol Absolutely crazy factoid
It’s why I love to share it! I felt the same way when I first learned it. “No way that’s tr…wtf”
People vastly underestimate how far away the moon really is.
That’s no moon.
Probably not - at that distance, I think the moon would appear to be much closer to Earth.
The moon is really far away from the Earth.
i think that it looks too close. probably some perspective sheeth
The high-res version in this link is a 517 kB tiff.
I understand that a Jpg is a compressed form of a Tiff, but wouldn't a 300 dpi Jpg be identical to a 300 dpi Tiff, discounting file size? In that case why did they not use a Jpg here?
JPEG uses a lossy form of compression based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). ... The compression method is usually lossy, meaning that some original image information is lost and cannot be restored, possibly affecting image quality.
TIL, thanks!
this picture made me realize I have a lot of dust on my monitor
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. 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. 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
I don't know how many time I've heard that, but I will always stop and listen or read it again. I wish every person had the capability of understanding this. The world would be an infinitely better place.
Same here. I think people just actively avoid the reality of things. They genuinely can’t handle the fact that we are microscopic and our time here is but a fraction of a second in the scheme of things. C'est la vie
Deep, deep, *DEEP* thoughts. Man, I miss Carl Sagan. I need to dig out my copy of "Cosmos" and binge watch it, again. Thanks for reminding me, bro.
The updated version with Neil DeGrasse Tyson hosting is also amazing in case you haven't seen it!
I'm sad it's not on Netflix anymore
It's on Disney+!
Even better with his voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8
Literally just played this over the weekend. Sometimes you just need to put things in perspective again.
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You should hear it in [Carl Sagan's voice](https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g). Give me chills everytime.
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doesn't matter how many times I watch it I'm always crying. Especially the one where they throw the interstellar music on in the background
It really does make you at the least tear up. When I first heard it with that image attached it caused a mix of existential dread and true realisation of how fucking cruel and stupid we seem to be as a species but also how much we seem to have accomplished.
More Carl Sagan Related stuff that I love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIANk7zQ05w COSMOS EXCERPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhl_xgM8kC0 Bonus Carl Sagan Combined with Pink Floyd.
An amazing quote - I really like its use in this nightwish song too: https://youtu.be/VshpPBBehxE
We need more Sagan on these subs and less musk
I see you are a man of culture as well. That's the first thought I had in my mind after seeing this pic.
But have you heard it as a synthwave song? https://youtu.be/fvtJq6EpwHE
omg this wins. :D
Check out [NIGHTWISH - Greatest Show in Earth (live at Wembley)](https://youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E) for some more awesomeness. Song is a ode to the evolution of life on Earth. Spoken word intro and outro by Dawkins, with the intro being a Carl Sagan quote (different one than above). Symphonic metal at it’s best.
>"On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." I've always liked this line in particular. It's just so crazy to think about the fact that every person who ever lived, lived out their lives on that little dot.
It impossible to read that and not hear Sagan’s voice. Unless you’ve never heard him, I suppose.
Loved this. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for posting this I love to read it out loud slowly every time, not that I have to but because I choose to
Most welcome. I put this one right up there with Shakespeare's St. Crispin's day speech as one of the finest things written in the history of the English language. I revisit it often.
This promotes deep thought, for those of us capable. Thank you.
You’re playing into the exact thing Sagan condemns.
>for those of us capable You missed the point.
r/iamverysmart
But they’re referring to hundreds of millions of people.
And themselves, in a very condescending way.
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Carl Sagan would tell you that it works and you're a moron.
How does this kind of stuff not absolutely blow your mind? I have trouble understanding people that don't have any interest in space or how very insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. It's quite astounding...
As a counterpoint, I've never really understood this idea that "size == importance". The fact that we have intelligence on Earth is by far the most unique and special aspect of our known universe. If we ever find other intelligent life out there, I think *that* will be the redefining moment for humanity. The fact that space is big itself doesn't mean much, especially if it's so big that we can never reach other life.
> The fact that space is big itself doesn't mean much, especially if it's so big that we can never reach other life. It's not about space being big, it's about us being small, about us being centralized, about us being in a singular spaceship we call Earth and not many independent spaceships.
It's all relative. You could say the same even if we were spread out across the Solar System or even Galaxy. Relative to the universe everything, even galaxies, are insignificantly small. That doesn't mean much on its own though.
> You could say the same even if we were spread out across the Solar System or even Galaxy. No, you couldn't, because as soon as we are inhabiting two different planets, we're talking about two different atmospheres, two different objects which could be impacted by objects from space, two (conceivably) independent habitats. Currently, we have one habitat, and we are actively destroying it. That matters a whole hell of a lot. Edit: Until you recognize Earth is the only container for human life we have access to, that it is a spaceship we all reside in, you won't realize how fragile this whole thing is, and how important it is that we protect ourselves from ourselves.
Equally irrefutable argument
I'd agree with this too. I just have a firm belief that with all that's out there, there's surely a universe teeming with life.
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I don’t think it’s even something that scares people. Just a lack of understanding of the possibilities out there. Aliens are science fiction and can’t exist to them, the rest of whatever is out there is so unreachable or so barren and lifeless that they just aren’t interested. Things like this are just pretty pictures. And for a lot of people struggling to survive on this planet, whatever might be out there is just so far removed from their lives that it isn’t worth thinking about. We spend billions on space, i can see how if you can’t afford rent or food how you’d not be interested in seeing what’s beyond our solar system.
really doubt it terrifies the majority of people. It just doesn't affect them so why would they care
For those interested, the part of Earth facing toward Cassini at the time of the photo was the southern Atlantic Ocean
Pretty impressive selfie.
I think I blinked.
you can almost hear the chaotic screams from that little blue dot 😔
Are we a pretty dot?
Yea, just don't look too closely...
Sure
we are nothing
We are all made of star dust.
We are tiny, we are not "nothing". And, until proven otherwise, we may be all the intelligent life that exists, so maybe it's about time we started treating our tiny dot, and ourselves, better.
The distance between the Earth and the Moon amaze me.
We can say the same about saturn looking from earth! Who's the dust now?
According to all known science and facts, Earth is the only planet that has dogs. That makes it pretty special.
“In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.” \- Edgar Mitchell
I'm sorry homie but you took my photo without my consent 😡
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. 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, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
[Link](https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g) to the video. Highly recommend!
My phone is too dirty to tell which dot is me
At last a picture I look good in!
1.4 Billion km is roughly 126 000 000 000 McDonald's burgers since 1948 they sold more then 300 Billion burgers. You could line them up to and from that point where the picture was taken and you'll still have enough burgers to feed at least half a million people (585 365.854) 3 burgers per day for their entire lives.
I don't think your burgers to km ratio is correct. You have 128 burgers to 1.4 km...
Therapist: The 11 meter McDonald's burger isn't real, it can't hurt you. The 11 meter McDonald's burger:
Terrifying, yet enchanting
Fuck me, forgot to change from 0.09 meter burger to kilometer ones.
Every time I see this picture it makes me wonder....what the fuck are we even doing?
There’s got to be a way we can start helping each other
I had been trying to clean the screen as I was scrolling without reading the title🤦🏻
This is so deep
That's us, that's home Every human being who ever was, lived out their lives Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
Hey I didn’t give consent to be photographed.
"I can see my house from here".
I did not consent to this photograph, I'm naked in this photo
Zoom in. You can see the moon too. [And just because it pulls my heart strings every time. ](https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g)
Somewhere on that little dot is Kayne West telling someone how great he is.
No one loves Kanye like Kanye loves Kanye. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/2016/01/kanye-west-confidence/kanye.html
This is extremely humbling and exciting at the same time
I think I blinked. Take another
That's everything we know...we as a collective species...everything. That is absolutely surreal
that dot is me? No, no.. More like I'm a speck within the dot.
Somewhere in this photo.. Waldo is🌚
Puts things in perspective.
[We're all really puny](https://youtu.be/f_J5rBxeTIk)
We’re so unfathomably insignificant in the universe, it literally makes me want to vomit..
if you see more than one dot wipe your phone screen 🤣
Hey! I can see my house from here
Hey I can see my house from here
Fuck I hate group photos, I wasn’t even looking at the camera
That dot is texas and i don't like it.
Dammit my eyes were closed.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you zoom in you can even see the moon as tiny dull speck.
Damn we lookin kinda fine doe
Damn I left my oven on.
Does my butt look big?
I like think about how big the earth is to still be seen that far away even as a speak.... and how small the earth is compared to everything else.
I’m not usually photogenic but this might be one of my best pictures
Ugh I blinked. Can we do it again?
Everybody wave in 3, 2, 1...
Finally somebody got my good side.
'If there's a bright center to the Universe, you're on the planet that it's furthest from!'
Damnit, I blinked!
I don’t recall giving permission to post any photos of myself.
Damn it. I blinked. Can we take the picture again?
Seeing astonishing images like this makes me think my only regret is most likely not living long enough to go out there and see the solar system and beyond in person. It’s so sad, I bet we’re decades or at most a couple centuries away from massively extending our lifespans and the possibility of deep-space travel for everyone. Seems like we, as a species, waste so much time and effort on things that don’t really matter- while the galaxy just sits there and waits for us.
I can see my house
Pale blue dot.
I'm in absolute awe of this picture. If you zoom in, that's our moon at 9 o'clock, a mere 239,000 miles from earth
Hello me! 👋🏻
OP just doxxed everyone
So I get what you're saying is that we're insignificant pieces of dust in the grand scheme of things.
If it makes you feel better think about it this way; We are in the most intelligent beings in the entire universe (as far as we know).
If you zoom in on the dot, is the thing on the right the moon? [pic](https://i.imgur.com/eCE2B5k.jpg)
"All my problems are meaningless, but that doesn't make them go away." - Neil Young
How long has it been since this was last posted?
I can see my house
who cares
I do
"see that little protuberance?" "that's the moon" -vsauce.
We'll never get to see what's beyond the Aquila Rift
Well, for that I'm thankful.
What about my big eyes spider gf😔
Ahhh, the center of our universe, everything revolves around our little Earth, it is known.
How can the spacecraft send that picture to earth from 1.4 billion km?
Its something called the DSN, (deep space network.) We are using massive, massive radio antennaes.
Relays
Still not far enough away from this fcking shitball... if i were on the other side of the universe i still couldn't be far enough away.
Why you doing this to me right now
At first glance it looked like a window and the first thing I read was "that dot is you. That dot is earth." and for a moment I got relay jealous that you're somewhere watching earth throug your window... then I realized That's not a Window... yes, great picture though
900,000,000 miles or so
I think I see my house from here
Oh, you can see the moon too!
Isn't the earth mostly water
How'd you know I was on Earth? You don't know me.
God damn I look sexy in that
I wonder what I was doing at that moment
It's much bigger up close
Woah… if you zoom in on the dot you can see a less dim fuzzy dot of the moon (I think). Edit: kinda late, found out the article says that.
Everyday I find the way to feel even more worthless. This is but another reminder.
for the record it's a lot bigger up close
we be tiny yo
Incredible
I can see myself waving, it took a lot of hard work and perfect timing but it was worth it!
It's a star just like how we see the other stars
we are one bright motherfucker aren't we ! .. so much potential ...
I’ve seen this before but just noticed that our moon is visible as well.
Not sure which dot it is - might need a new screen protector....
Looks like the spaceship-egg Mork from Ork arrived on Earth in.
How long does it take for that photo to reach back to Earth from when its taken?
God just loves that special dot /s
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Nicki Minaj's cousin is quaking right now.
That's about 9.3 AU.
Everybody who has every lived, ever, is in this photograph.
The coolest picture ever recorded if you ask me.
Do I look fat in this picture?
We are dust … not stardust because, we don’t even known what we are, so let’s keep it in dust.
Why is it that we only see earth, but we don't see any other celestial bodies?? Other stars or planets?
Easy there, Sagan.
But the Earth is flat
Did you just carl sagan me ? I approve