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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. [click for more]
-Carl Sagan
Interesting idea.....but now the secrecy of it all is kinda ruined, no? |
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-Carl Sagan
This is an old trick, but a good one. Armies have been doing variations of it for ages and we did it as a diversion during the run-up to D-Day. |
"Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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