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Wild hearts calm soul

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Lets go roadtrip to the piers for some yummy clam chowder XD lol

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Always stayin' curious...always constantly wondering and pondering...questions and answers

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This here...makes me wonder why we even have all the fuckin' problems we have in the first place. Humanity is beautifully and tragically flawed...this here...makes me think that all my problems are significantly unimportant and should not even be brought up anyways. Everything that was and everything that will be happens here on this Earth and pretty much everywhere else in the universe too. Its damn near unbelieveable to think and even more damn near impossible to comprehend the great distance of Earth to Voyager 1...I find this truely and utterly amazing beyond words.

The Pale Blue Dot

The “Pale Blue Dot” is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space.

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. Reflecting on this picture (now considered one of the most important pictures in all of human history) Carl Sagan said:

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of 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 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.”

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Outstanding beyond comprehension...a pale blue dot floating in the darkness of space. And on this here pale blue dot...life is found here. An enormous living organism that sustains and provides life with numerous ecosystems that function together at the grand scale of things. And here we are...as a human species taking this beautiful planet for granted. Earth cries for her children.

The Pale Blue Dot (Video) - Carl Sagan

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Truely amazing :) I can't help but to imagine being in place of Voyager 1 out there and travelling the great vast universe lol.

The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or far future humans, that may find it. The Voyager spacecraft would take about 40,000 years to reach the distance of the star nearest the Sun, Alpha Centauri at a distance of 4.4 light-years, though neither craft is travelling toward that star. As the probes are extremely small compared to the vastness of interstellar space, it is extraordinarily unlikely that they will ever be accidentally encountered. If they are ever found by an alien species, it will most likely be far in the future, and thus the record is best seen as a time capsule or a symbolic statement rather than a serious attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.

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Mine shall be *enter drumroll*…The Wierdo!! Buh dum TISS…*Silence broken by cricket sounds* so if I ever run into The Silence, it would be an awkward silence.

30 Days of Summer Time Doctor Who

Day 23: What would your Time Lord name be? The Magician? The Carpenter?

My Time Lord name would probably be, The Author, everywhere I go across Space and Time I leave behind a tall tale or story.

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It seems as if there’s a universe of thoughts and galaxies of ideas floating around in the very depths of my mind. Yet, I find it very challenging to communicate these…to express my feelings, exchange knowledge and share wisdom. Clusters upon clusters of rapid neurons firing between the synapses.

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Haha yeeeaaaahhh ^_^"