Earthlings from 900 million miles

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

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In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth.

A reminder of how insignificant we are and how vast the universe is.

"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." ~ Carl Sagan

Everyone died on this planet too, except 3 astonauts:

"Soyuz 11 was the only manned mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1 (Soyuz 10 had soft-docked but had not been able to enter due to latching problems). The mission arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971 and departed on 29 June. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurized during preparations for reentry, killing the three-man crew.
The Soyuz 11 crew members were Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev.
The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans known to have died in space."

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/soyuz-11/crew-home-misfortunes-soyuz-11/

True heroes.

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Damn, your posts are truly... humbling!

It's crazy how we as a whole overthink our problems... Just consider how relatively nanoscopic those problems are compared to the universe we will someday in the next 100 years explore...

Thanks for the post!

Nejc

Thanks buddy, appreciated your comment! Our presence is just not justifiable. I am going to post tomorrow about why the most probable theory is that : we are living in a simulation. It is called The simulation hypothesis. Either way, we gotta live today in this current reality, so whatever is the ultimate truth, we will never know what is really going on... try to explain to a dot what a sphere really is....

Nice one friend

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