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TheDauraMallam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYtXoUZbUCQ

The spacecraft was a long way from home.

I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point of light, a lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the other points of light Voyager would see: nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely because of the obscurity of our world thus revealed, such a picture might be worth having.

It had been well understood by the scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in a vast, encompassing cosmos—but no one had ever seen it as such. Here was our first chance, and perhaps also our last for decades to come.

So, here they are: a mosaic of squares laid down on top of the planets in a background smattering of more distant stars. Because of the reflection of sunlight off the spacecraft, the Earth seems to be sitting in a beam of light, as if there were some special significance to this small world; but it's just an accident of geometry and optics. There is no sign of humans in this picture: not our reworking of the Earth's surface; not our machines; not ourselves. From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalisms is nowhere in evidence. We are too small. On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential: a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.

Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings; thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines; every hunter and forager; every hero and coward; every creator and destroyer of civilizations; 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 supreme leader; every superstar; 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 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. 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. 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 great 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. 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. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known.

The pale blue dot.

This is an excerpt from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. It talks about the photo of the same name, Pale Blue Dot, taken by Voyager I on February 14, 1990.

Audio book:
https://piratebay.to/torrent/1911847/Pale.Blue.Dot.-.Carl.Sagan

eBook available on request.

Teempakguy:
if Jupiter is a gas giant, is it possible to drove a rocket through it's
diameter such that it enters in one place, passes through the center, and
comes out at the other side?

There is less chance that jupiter is all in a gaseous state.. the elements in Jupiter can contract and solidify under pressure, Jupiter in fact may have a solid crust . . .so i wouldn't count on tearing right through the middle of jupiter like some kind of gas ball... because you might as well hit the crust at that speed... we all know what follows next.. "Oh christ!!!... shiit am stuck in Jupiter!!!"

since the moon has such a slow gravity, can I shoot a bullet up and it will
never come back down?

Moon's gravity is 1.6m/s. . the weight of a body is the measure of the effect of the gravitational pull on the body... so a bullet weighing about 22grams here on earth is likely to weight about 2 or less in the moon. . it is likely to escape the moon's atmosphere at the neck breaking speed of bullets but if it doesn't . .it will be a very slow descent, and i mean real real slow Like you will have to wait your asss out until you be like "Fvck this shiit, fall anytime you like dummbass.." ...

can we make artificial saturn like rings for earth? How would they look like
from the ground?

what if the moon had it's own moon?

The effect of that will create a tilt in the moon's orbit around the earth and ultimately a clear shift in the earth's orbit around the sun as we know. . .it would also have effect on the earth as we know it now... But whatever wouldn't it be cool seeing two moons of different sizes in the night sky ?

how big was the planet that formed the asteroid belt?

freecocoa:
Yea, just like the asteroid could have crashed birthing 62 harmless moons.

Dude, think like someone on weed for a second.

Hahahahaha harmess you say we all know the fvck we are getting from the one we have.. and you want to add 62more

No wonder... wet weed!!!

Teempakguy:
what the fucck?

You mean am? That small thing? From just a few million miles?
But why Nah?
Is that really how insignificant we are?

Imagine an alien looking at us from faraway Sirius system. He'll be like, Nah, this is just one of those regular planets. They too will be like, it may or may not contain life. But it supports life however, we don't know for sure. Wtf?!!

Lol..Man don't just realize how almost it seems we don't exist..The earth is just a pale tiny spec of dust.. a look of our solar system suspended in this supercluster of cloud, dust stars and planets..our sun is no more than just a tiny dot..thats why when i see people in their ego regard themselves better than other life forms in this planet, i just laugh and SHM If only they knew

The earth is just a small stage in a vast cosmic arena" Carl sagan

Teempakguy:
I've been thinking. Is there anyway to disintegrate CO2 into carbon and oxygen? If we didn't have to consider power.
I haven't been able to come up with something.

Yes man can split Co₂ but its really a very long short that hasnt achieved full scaled prominence..You can look them up on google

Maybe from the type of superb thinking your mind possess you may be the one to help us device a mans to easily slit it just as easy as singing ...am i right?

freecocoa:
Lol, you are crazy you know.

A girl can dream, you know these moons would already have been in existence, meaning earth would be different than you know it today, it's not like am asking for the arrival of new moons.

francizy:
So how do you propose humans can survive there?

We go over there and plant trees/flowers/grasses that will consume the CO2 gases while emitting O2 for humans to live oh (don't know how possible that is)?

Or we transport O2 via containers to Mars and inhale from the containers?

Are the soils suitable for vegetation?

What about water, because from what I read, they haven't discovered water but just evidence of the existence of one?

Etc.

Lol..i love your mind and how it works...We have methods of growing plants (primary source of O₂) that doesn't involve soil...

Man will survive and live in Mars the same way Man is living and surviving in the International space station right now in space..

there are methods of growing plants and ultimately getting O₂ outside of earth.

(a)Aeroponics: this is the method of growing plants in mid air, in a mist environment and the nutrients needed are administered to it.. .. So if you ever see a plant suspended in mid air, don't run..its not magic

(b)Hydroponics: Growing the plant in water that contains all the necessary minerals needed... its like saying to the soil.."take that sucker "

these methods are perfectly efficient too and are currently being used in the International space station and will be too for Mars when man eventually goes to mars.

And less i forget, there will be closed habitat compartments if man is to survive in mars

freecocoa:
Lol, you could never be described like him, not with such great sense of humor..

We will find our way around it, that's what scientists are for.

Besides, with it we can prove that it's not only moses that knows how to part a sea.

Lol.. it's not even about about the sea being parted. . The effect of the little moon buggers if we get up to 5 like pluto will make water transportation impossible well that would be good because no politician will throw yacht parties anymore but again that would be bad cus tsunamis could be a normal day to day activities..

Up to 62 of these natural satellites sapping from the earth's gravity will literally pull the earth apart and not just the sea... lets see moses beat that

francizy:
OP, does O2 and CO2 exist on this planet?

Teempakguy:
I can't see a damn thing.

Meanwhile, in other news, I found these interesting questions online.











Anyway, I thought they were rather fascinating and that you guys might enjoy answering them.

Robinhez, get back here.

Here that's your planet. . that little bright rock suspended in a sun beam, that is where all your bullshiits are given and taken will get to the question

Teempakguy:

Jupiter be like . . .

hahn:
Exactly. We need this sort of sense of responsibility replicated nationwide by every citizen. Whenever a problem arises don't ask god "why?", don't blame the devil, don't blame the government, don't blame your parents, don't blame your ancestors, blame YOURSELF!

Taking blame sparks a sense of responsibility which in turn opens the mind in search of solutions to the problem. The more solutions, in people, rise up there will definitely be a reduction in our problems.

SeverusSnape:
Nairaland is a business. And they need traffic, Political topics gains much traffic, so the mods tends to move them to the Front page more than topics such as this one.

hahn:
Hey! Hey! Hey! Stop stealing my line

I've repeated the "A Nigerian would complain and blame the government that the environment is at the same time is the person throwing dirt on the ground instead of a waste bin... Can someone deceive themselves anymore than that?" phrase so much on nl that it's getting tiring.

malvisguy212:
are you denying, man don't have soul ?

Yes i deny anything that is not based on evidence. . . You only assert a soul because you read it in the bible and that is it (seriously because an ancient primitive book whose writers didn't even know of other planets said so)... How can you postulate such based on just your convictions and not based on empirical evidence and expect it to be taken as a universal truth..

The far we know, you are alive because of the countless neuroperceptive activities, organ interactions and quakes of countless cells in mutual activities and that is it.. Those biological components of you keeps you alive unless of course you would like us to experiment, would remove your heart since you don't need it to be alive, your soul can do the job

Leader26:
Bitten by two black dogs in the neck - what does it mean?

hahn:
Your analysis is spot on and I totally agree tha the government is obviously not the problem, it's the people.

Angelou:
that's nt my business... All i need is a suzuki motorbike that can travel at the speed of light johnnydon22, tempakguy. Robinhez

The speed of light unfortunately seems impossible to us now at least for now.. Remember the theory of relativity showed us how we cannot achieve the speed of light.

"The faster the speed of a body, the greater the mass and the energy² ... so if a body runs at the speed of light, the mass will run at infinite and so is the energy required...

So unless we or in fact you somehow pulls out an infinitely powerful and constant source of energy, always wake up every morning bearing in mind that E=MC² is biatch

theAtheist101:
So, what do you expect before? This the gathering of intellectual people not religious people. People question other's ideas. They don't take "just believe" as an answer. They a reasonable and logical answers to the problems. This is what has made Science successful. So there's no need of trying anything. By the way, John and I argument, maybe that would help you.

Teempakguy:
Hahahahahahahaha master johnydon22 has finally found his sense of humor!.

I absolutely love this! I was recently arguing with girl that scientists were dry and humorless,

Well, taiwo . . in your face biatch!!!

Even the site itself contributed to the joke by changing naked to unclad.

Anyway, it's a really nice article. I love the humor, originality, and lalasticlala . . . Na beg we dey beg you. Drop this on the frontpage. Abeg.

And where is robinhez?

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Perhaps you should do another article based specifically on dwarf planets. Eris, Pluto and Ceres would rule that one. Also, you could do another one on space landmarks such as the oori cloud, these comets, asteroids, saggitarius B2/w3(OH) and nebulas.
I love your fascination with space and you totally handle it while I stick with radioactivity and robin sticks with . . . . solar power.


TEEHEE!

You are right i think i will write another on nebulas, dwarf planets, galaxies, blackholes, asteriods, stars and other astronomical wonders..

Astronomy is a beauty bro, will marry her if I can..... Where dah fvck is RobinHez and Queed...we don't need fp to make this as long as our home that seun closed down

theAtheist101:
Nice one! But this would never make front page with that heading! Rather use something like: "which of the 8 planets has the biggest curve?" Then the mods would consider it.

theAtheist101:
Now you just talking. Energy in thermodynamics and Quantum mechanics mean different things.

Talking Quantum mechanics, the problem every thinking person is facing is finding the origin of gravity (negative energy) and matter (positive energy). These two are the architects of our universe, as postulated by the zero-energy theory.

theAtheist101:
Ano under what branch of Science is that equation valid? Does thermodynamics accept the equation to be correct? That equation is against First Law of thermodynamics and that is why scientists worship an Einsteifor conceiving the equation.

theAtheist101:
So? In thermodynamics, that is impossible!

malvisguy212:
soul.

Oh nice SOUL keeps both microscopic organisms alive too, i like that...and it is eternal too? i like this

Then i don't see any reason why you need your biological anatomy to be alive... So why do you rely on your heart pumping blood to be alive since you have a soul which allegedly is responsible for your being alive?