Out Of This World

[Garry Russell]

Earth seen fron the envoirons of Saturn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24913141

[Airspeed]

Mind is a bit more boggled than usual after that, Garry!

[DaveB]

That's the feeling I ended up with Mike. Many words but not much said

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Where's your imagination???

[DaveB]

And more than this - the image of that dot captures the very moment, frozen in time, when the inhabitants of our planet took a break from their normal activities to go outside and acknowledge our "coming of age" as planetary explorers and the audacious interplanetary salute between robot and maker that this image represents.

What complete tosh! My imagination gave up at that point.. before that point actually

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Well..TBH I didn't read that part because it always containsa mass of shperical objects.


A bit like listining to the artist explaining what the significance of 120 bricks was and how each one was placed precisely in it's exact position and orientation...by a monkey no doubt

[DaveB]

ATB
DaveB

[dodger]

Makes you wonder what it's all about but that picture of us [earth] makes one feel insignificant,

Mind you India maybe thinking they might be able to sell more Curry to the Martians

Cheers,

Signed Anonymous

[Garry Russell]

Chicken Mars-ala??

[Vancouver]

Makes you wonder what it's all about but that picture of us [earth] makes one feel insignificant,

Signed Anonymous

Interesting thought but I prefer the astronomer/educator Neil De Grasse Tyson's thoughts on the subject, in that it makes him feel highly significant. His reasoning being that we may just be the only self aware intelligent beings in the universe which contains an estimated 200 billion galaxies containing on average 200 - 400 billion stars each.