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kellyreeves: 18 Photos of Food With Faces - Urlesque

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:01:23 +1000

18 Photos of Food With Faces - Urlesque

karalees: The Pale Blue Dot: life on a mote of dust suspended...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:50:04 +1000

The Pale Blue Dot: life on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam…

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This year is anniversary of the famous “pale blue dot”. It’s a photograph of Earth, as seen from Voyager 1 while on the edge of our solar system - approximately 3,762,136,324 miles from home. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the Solar System, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space. His words in regards to this photograph are always worth remembering:

“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.”

"To err is human, to purr, feline."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:19:02 +1000

“To err is human, to purr, feline.”

- Robert Byrne (via rspca)

Pencil sculptures: miniature masterpieces carved into graphite...

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:02:06 +1000

Pencil sculptures: miniature masterpieces carved into graphite by Dalton Ghetti / Telegraph.co.uk

tiphereth: Keep your friends close and your enemies on limited...

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:00:00 +1000

tiphereth:

Keep your friends close and your enemies on limited profile

ilovecharts: via thedailywhat via aurevoirkatie

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:22:06 +1100

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"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some..."

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:20:34 +1100

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”

- Maya Angelou (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)

the airplane hangar gets extremely literal on [technabob]

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:01:23 +1100

the airplane hangar gets extremely literal on [technabob]

Minimalist Star Wars Tourism Posters: Vacation in Tatooine,...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:30:51 +1100

Minimalist Star Wars Tourism Posters: Vacation in Tatooine, Hoth, Endor, Dagobah & Cloud City - Los Angeles Art - Style Council

dominickbrady: hipsterpuppies: don’t use the term “world...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:19:12 +1100

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don’t use the term “world music” around thurston unless you want a 20 minute lecture

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acatinatree: Chet Baker: the beautiful and the damned via...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:08:47 +1100

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Chet Baker: the beautiful and the damned

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dominickbrady: exiledsoul: jookjoint: via francohoff

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:06:45 +1100

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theanimalblog: kari-shma: Dogs Allowed! (via Spot!)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:54:12 +1100

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Dogs Allowed! (via Spot!)

theanimalblog: kari-shma: Some Rules Were Made to Be Broken…....

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:53:07 +1100

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Some Rules Were Made to Be Broken…. (via maplecs100)

theanimalblog: poobah: Cheese…

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:53:19 +1100

theanimalblog:

poobah:

Cheese…

"Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:45:33 +1100

“Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time.
Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time.
Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time.
It’s time we gave this some thought.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller (via purrsikat)

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News (via PrivateCustard)

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:57:52 +1100

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News (via PrivateCustard)

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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:09:25 +1100

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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:24:55 +1100

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theanimalblog: kari-shma: Little Zhen Zhen is a very...

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:09:19 +1100

theanimalblog:

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Little Zhen Zhen is a very determined little panda climber! (via kjdrill)