The best video you'll ever see.

[Beer]

NOTICE: This video doesn't contain any funny cat pictures. It doesn't contain anyone face planting. It's more than 30 seconds long. It requires a little maturity and an attention span greater than that of a peanut to appreciate, so most of you can just leave the way you came in.

:Þ

Anywho.. If you don't know who Carl Sagan is, look him up. One of the greatest minds we've ever had in science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

[Beer]

[kymagic]

Argh! Damned school filters! I shall have to wait until I get home to watch this... I can't even see what I assume to be a picture in the above post (all I see is a blank space )

[DuFace]

Awesome video.

There are two schools of thought on this argument though. Some think we're so small on a cosmological scale that we're insignificant. Others think that we are significant because we're made of the same stuff as everything else in the Universe, all of which was formed over billions of years in hearts of stars. One professor (can't remember from which university) called stars Galactic Foundries because of this.

Both viewpoints are fairly humbling though. Who will actually care if we wipe ourselves out? The universe will continue to exist without us, our solar system will exist without us and, assuming we didn't wipe ourselves out by physically destroying the world, the Earth will exist without us.

On the other hand, without us the Earth would just be another lump of rock floating around in space sharing similarities without an uncountable number of other rocks floating around in space. But, IS the Earth already just another lump of rock floating around in space? Are we really that special? Does life define a world? Is life just another part of the composition of that world? Some worlds contain iron, some contain sulphur, some contain life...

God damn I love astronomy!

[handcrafted]

We are a small planet, in a quiet normal solar system, with a under-medium size star, in the outer parts of our slightly above medium size galaxy. But because we can say this we are special!

The universe will continue to exist without us, our solar system will exist without us and, assuming we didn't wipe ourselves out by physically destroying the world, the Earth will exist without us.

Who knows?!

[IEF015]

We Are Special!

[miron]

I wonder if this is just coincidence...
As I'm watching this, Winamp decides to do the little pop-up thing. I've just got it muted. What it happens to play, out of some 7000 songs, is the song "Long Since Dead" by Godkomplex. And when I unmute it, it's at the one part in the song where there's a voice saying "If a god of love and light ever did exist, he's long since gone. Someone, something, rose in his place."


That's kinda ominous.

[Pyro-Fire]

I wonder if this is just coincidence...
As I'm watching this, Winamp decides to do the little pop-up thing. I've just got it muted. What it happens to play, out of some 7000 songs, is the song "Long Since Dead" by Godkomplex. And when I unmute it, it's at the one part in the song where there's a voice saying "If a god of love and light ever did exist, he's long since gone. Someone, something, rose in his place."


That's kinda ominous.

earth

[miron]

earth

I'm going to guess you mean "This is about how insignificant/special people really are, and how small the earth is in relation to everything, not religion"

And the relation is that they both are extremely humbling. Although, from what I've seen, hardcore religious people can hardly be described as humble.

[Beer]

Yes, miron, it's just a coincidence. No, there's no invisible sky daddy controlling your Winamp.

:lol:


Considering all the hate and division that has come from religion, I find it VERY difficult to call it humbling.