Let's take a break from all the shitposting/shit talking just to take a moment to appreciate how beautiful our home planet is, and how big of a responsibility we have for the future of mankind, regardless of political affiliation, religion and race.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -Greek Proverb.
yeah because fuck politics if we look farthest and farthest from earth.
>collect sweat welfare
The earth is flat
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>>67764416
>caring
Life on earth is out of control of us, and all of you fucking know it.
The elite control everything now.
>>67764416
I'm sorry anon but only in death does duty end.
The world is a beautiful place but the mundane affairs of /pol/ still need attending to.
FUCK YOU NIGGA WIN BIG OR DIE TRYIN MAN YOU WHITE PEOPLE HAHAHA THIS WHY YOU NEVER GETTIN LAID HONKEYS
>>67764416
>Let's take a break from all the shitposting
>>67764416
Thank you for making this thread, based Ameribro. <3 :)
It's good to put things into their proper perspective and to look at the grand, cosmic scheme of things at least once in a while. (end of part 1)
>>67768793
(start of part 2) "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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. (end of part 2)
>>67768948
(start of part 3) 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." - Pale Blue Dot speech by Carl Sagan (end)
>>67768793
Thanks bud. Loving the Sagan.
Pic is Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
>>67771081
What do you think about Iapetus's weird equatorial ridge?
These next 2 pictures are Pluto, absolutely beautiful.
>>67764416
I agree we should take care of it anon, but not to the point where were inhibiting progress for something we may not even be having a tangible impact on at the macro level.
Sure is pretty from SPESS though. Gives you some perspective.
>>67771219
>Iapetus
Truly extraordinary. Maybe it's shape has something to do with it's size? I'm not quite sure, but it sure is interesting.
Mimas (another natural satellite of Saturn) is cool too, it looks like the death star somewhat.
>>67771810
pic related.
>>67771810
>Mimas (another natural satellite of Saturn) is cool too, it looks like the death star somewhat.
Yes, Mimas does indeed somewhat resemble the Death Star (so does Iapetus with its equatorial ridge). The most interesting thing in the Solar System, in my opinion, is that hexagon-shaped storm on Saturn's north pole.
