Most astounding picture you've ever seen
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Since there is more than enough deep space images in this thread, I nominate this choice photograph from a place a little closer to home...
Holy fuck indeed...
Holy fuck indeed...
I was in Ireland this summer, and the shots from the Ring of Kerry were astounding.
So much water and green! I'm from Ontario, so I don't see much apart from hills and trees.
So much water and green! I'm from Ontario, so I don't see much apart from hills and trees.
Do you live in Iceland?Raven said:Since there is more than enough deep space images in this thread, I nominate this choice photograph from a place a little closer to home...
Holy fuck indeed...
I'm just looking through enjoying the photos for now, but for those posting pretty big pictures, could you put them in spoilers if you aren't already? For some reason I'm having a lot of trouble simply scrolling through this thread.
Agreed, It's probably one of the most humbling photographs ever taken if not one of the most important.Greni said:
No UK here, but that photo comes from a Chilean volcanic eruption.Soviet Heavy said:
Thanks for my new desktop background.Bvenged said:
This one just makes you wonder how thin our atmosphere is; and just how easy it could be for something to eliminate it.
God damn, don't take this the wrong way but that photo actually made my nipples hard.Raven said:Since there is more than enough deep space images in this thread, I nominate this choice photograph from a place a little closer to home...
Holy fuck indeed...
Thanks, and can I get some background info on the pic? I don't know what I'm looking at here.Greni said:Awesome thread you made here.
This one always does it for me; nothing visually breathtaking, but simple and elegant, and made many people think:
As explained by the great Carl Sagan...LarenzoAOG said:Thanks, and can I get some background info on the pic? I don't know what I'm looking at here.Greni said:Awesome thread you made here.
This one always does it for me; nothing visually breathtaking, but simple and elegant, and made many people think:
"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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. 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.
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.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. 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. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan
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As for an astounding image, it would have to be this panorama of our galaxy. Millions of stars in this picture alone and it is only of the small portion of the galaxy that we can see. Absolutely fascinating how our sun, powerful as it seems up close, is nothing but an insignificant speck of dust floating in the cosmos with trillions of others.
Viper1265 said:As explained by the great Carl Sagan...LarenzoAOG said:Thanks, and can I get some background info on the pic? I don't know what I'm looking at here.Greni said:Awesome thread you made here.
This one always does it for me; nothing visually breathtaking, but simple and elegant, and made many people think:
"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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. 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.
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.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. 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. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan
Wow, the picture seems much more grand now.
Whenever I see a picture or video of that man I can't help but think "What does he think he can accomplish?" but then again he's become an inspiration to so many, a charecter of almost mythical bravery and determination.DubMan said:
Whenever I feel really helpless, apathetic, or inhibited, I ask myself what was stopping this man.
Does anyone know his name or is he just "The Tiananmen Square Guy"?