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stardotnet · 11 months

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ive been thinking a lot about the golden records lately

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justbeingnamaste · 10 months

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“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. The planet has been through a lot worse than us. ...

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#RIP George Carlin #Extinction #Global warming #Pale Blue Dot #Perspective #Plastic

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humanoidhistory · 1 year

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“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant, we withhold belief. Whatever annoyance the uncertainty engenders serves a higher purpose: It drives us to accumulate better data. This attitude is the difference between science and so much else. Science offers little in the way of cheap thrills. The standards of evidence are strict. But when followed they allow us to see far, illuminating even a great darkness.”

—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

#carl sagan #space #science #astronomy #scientific method #pale blue dot

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flanaganfilm · 10 months

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Are you familiar with the writing of Brian Thomas Swimme? I’m currently reading Cosmogenesis, and a lot of what he’s saying seems almost word for word with Erin’s final monologue is Midnight Mass.

I’m not familiar with his other works, but from what I’ve read he seems to be one of the main contributors to the idea of a ‘living universe’ (one where people are not apart from universe but are, in a way, the universe itself)(same atoms that have been in existence since the Big Bang)(“we are the universe dreaming about itself”)

Anyway, I was wondering if you or any of your writers had him in mind while writing that last episode or if it was just a coincidence. I’ve heard similar sentiments over the years without ever hearing his name brought up.

I am not familiar with Brian Thomas Swimme, but I love those ideas - and you're right that they have been around for a long time, and voiced by a lot of people. In particular, I drew a lot of inspiration from one of my personal heroes, Carl Sagan. He articulated so many of these beautifully back in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of my favorite Carl Sagan quotes include:

"The cosmos is within us. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.” "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." And, of course: “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

Science is, I've come to believe, a spiritual journey. For me, it is far more relevant and far more spiritually profound than any religion I've studied (and I've studied a lot of them). If you haven't read his work, I highly recommend The Demon Haunted World, Pale Blue Dot, and of course Cosmos.

And if you want to see a monologue that puts Midnight Mass to shame, and then some, check out this passage from Pale Blue Dot, in Sagan's own voice:

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#carl sagan #midnight mass #pale blue dot #we are the cosmos dreaming of itself

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aspaceinthecosmos · 5 months

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Something I've been curious about for a while:

"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 . . . on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan _________________________________

no neutral option - choose whichever option fits you more/the best

#just jupiter #aspaceinthecosmos #polls #space #astronomy #outer space #voyager #pale blue dot #carl sagan #astrophotography #earth #nasa #voyager 2

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princealberich · 2 years

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#poetry #space #galaxy #stars #universe #nasa #pale blue dot #mine

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nemo-of-house-hamartia · 6 months

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“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, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

#Carl Sagan #Pale Blue Dot #if only people were able to have a different perspective #if only for one moment they were able to leave the ego behind #and raise above themselves and truly see that in all this infinite universe #we are just tiny creatures of no consequences in the greate scheme of things #but that at the same time it's what we do with everyday that gives meaning to our own existence and makes us all all so incredibly precious #If you have never ready any book by Carl Sagan)#please do #I know that when I did it created a new humbling perspective for yours truly #I truly had an epiphany

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beardedmrbean · 1 day

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#pale blue dot #they cleaned this guy up real good

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 7 months

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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.

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 #Earth #astronomy #space #human arrogance #religion is a mental illness

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cosmonautroger · 7 months

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