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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
Cool. red dwarf that much closer to reality |
i swear, whenever someone decides they need to beat us into space, bad things happen. |
This isn't 'beating us'... We won, a long time ago. This is just the next step, that our administration has no interest in at the time being, unfortunately. Cool news, thanks for it. |
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I gotta take a look at your fiscal position, how're you guys going to pay for all this? |
"Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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By Jove, it's brilliant! But there scarcely seems room for the Babbage-engines and their operators and banks of punch-card cabinets -- much less the massive steam-boilers -- that would be necessary to operate such a contraption. |
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist." - Queen Victoria
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-Carl Sagan
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"Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
The moon is made of cheese, Gromit. |
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"Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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