Aussie wrote on Jun 16^th, 2019 at 12:48pm:


This forum becomes more and more bizarre by the day... in so many ways...

Nah...he has been banned (by FD it seems.)  It seems for no better reason that he and FD had a disagreement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

    We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, 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 hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

    — Carl Sagan, speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994

John Smith wrote on Jun 16^th, 2019 at 7:48pm:



Ah!  The Smith Theory Of Zero Space Left Over in a Folded Sock..... it is Inevitable that some air will be left inside even a folded sock... it is on such principles that the distortions of the Universe required to fill two or more different socks into one space are built...

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jun 16^th, 2019 at 9:42pm:


You'll have to do that elsewhere.

freediver wrote on Jun 16^th, 2019 at 10:14pm:



Even so  did it warrant divine intervention? Someone may well have made the statement that greg posted - but it should be referenced as some of us do.

Let him back...

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jun 16^th, 2019 at 8:13am:



Very well said.
Perhaps in 200yrs the whites may get an apology....but I doubt it.


Whites built a society that every other color wants. So the whites include them all. Then when it gets beyond a joke and whites say "hang on", out come the labels.....and damn there is a lot of labels. Almost enough to start catogorising them like supermarket isles. 

Captain Caveman wrote on Jun 17^th, 2019 at 7:09am:



Yep. That was said.