this shows how small and insignificant we all truly are

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#1 wezzybrems
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I would like to quote Carl Sagan.

I think We do seem rather Insignificant when you really think about it. Nothing ever got me to think of that more than the following picture and quote combo.
The picture was taken by Voyager and is the most distant picture ever taken of Earth, the Quote is Sagan Reflecting on the picture. Nothing ever made me think how small we really are until this.:

"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."

- Carl Sagan

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#2 foxhound_fox
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You should take a look at a map of the known universe... :|

Here is a pretty good representation. And if you didn't know, a light year = 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometres.
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#3 King_Of_Spam
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And this is about...
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#4 Choga
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Just imagine what a diversity of lifeforms must exist elsewhere in this universe.
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#5 Rhazakna
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We're insignificant, but at the same time, everything we do matters.
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#7 zeppelin6591
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98% of the posters on gamespot have already seen/contemplated this. If you are in the 2% that hasn't, STFU.
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#8 wezzybrems
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98% of the posters on gamespot have already seen/contemplated this. If you are in the 2% that hasn't, STFU.zeppelin6591

 

gotta love the immaturity in here

thx for the bump 

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#9 zeppelin6591
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[QUOTE="zeppelin6591"]98% of the posters on gamespot have already seen/contemplated this. If you are in the 2% that hasn't, STFU.wezzybrems

 

gotta love the immaturity in here

thx for the bump

What you are saying is something I have thought about a lot, like why am I really even here. I just hate that "98%" sig and it fit. 

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#10 Edgemaster666
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Yep, we are merely a speck of dust in a universe of sand..
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#11 X360PS3AMD05
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like i said, universe is too big for us to comprehend. i'd love to be an astronaut but i know the government just takes away funding to kill people in wars.
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#12 Bourbons3
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You should take a look at a map of the known universe... :|

Here is a pretty good representation. And if you didn't know, a light year = 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometres.foxhound_fox
Whats that in old money?
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#13 NathanHawkins
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for the most part Sagan is very right.  it depresses and confounds me more than intrigues me when i see these types of pictures.
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#14 Kook18
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i think i can see my house from there.
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#16 MattUD1
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for the most part Sagan is very right. it depresses and confounds me more than intrigues me when i see these types of pictures.NathanHawkins

God Bless Carl Sagan. 

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#17 Erasorn
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Sweet!
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It does make me feel insignificant:( Thanks for not helping my low self esteem issues:P
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#19 NathanHawkins
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It does make me feel insignificant:( Thanks for not helping my low self esteem issues:Pdouble_decker

 

well, i think you're swell....so eff that pic. :P 

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#20 -Karayan-
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Doesn't really say anything I didn't already know.
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#21 zero9167
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you're a noob if you just now are realizing it :P
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[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]You should take a look at a map of the known universe... :|

Here is a pretty good representation. And if you didn't know, a light year = 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometres.Bourbons3
Whats that in old money?

Haha, that cracked me up something special.  :lol:

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#23 PlayedThemAll
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You know what's funny? Size doesn't matter. Humans are oppessed with this idea of quantify and measuring.
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#24 moomooplopmoo
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Meh....I still feel the same size as before......
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#25 moomooplopmoo
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You know what's funny? Size doesn't matter. Humans are oppessed with this idea of quantify and measuring. PlayedThemAll

So you're not human? :shock: 

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#26 zero9167
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Meh....I still feel the same size as before......moomooplopmoo
LOL no you shrunk 3 inches