Blue Marble

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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

I suppose this is kind of a weird blog but I'm sitting here at home watching Cosmic Voyage on one of the channels I have and it reminded me of that quote above and I thought it was amazing. I know, I know. It sounds like I should be high, right? Cosmic Voyage? I mean, come on. But I'm not. Anyway, then it reminded me of this video which I thought was crazy (great music and all)...



And then! In the Cosmic Voyage I think they did a remake of the "Powers of 10" video (I think Jeff may have showed me that one) but this time Morgan Freeman was narrating. So I looked for it and here it is (the new version)...



And for some reason, I just think it's freakin' amazing. I guess it's sorta geeky and you may find no interest in it at all but I think it's kind of profound, especially when you think about it as Carl Sagan put it. I started to put it in the perspective of what's going on in the world and it makes you think. Interesting stuff, in my opinion.