How's life on the pale blue dot?

Xios

Carl Sagan


James may, edge of space

So let's discuss our total insignificance.




Edit;/ If you don't care, then just enjoy this simple thing.
duck party

Absurdum

anyone fancy a pint?

Saila

no thats depressing

MugMugs

I misread that as "James May rides a U-2 spy plane" If he had sex with a plane would he be an "Aerosexual" ?

Micky Dolenz

Hee, the ducky is dancing

pragmatic1

We're the universe becoming self-conscious. Insignificant, nope.

KeithAFC

Why is that depressing? We are hardly insignificant.

Bipolar Joe

We are all insignificant in a significant way.

MugMugs

I'm insignificant and so's my wife!

Chips Ahoy

what about the string theory, now thats depressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

My name is URL

Only a stupid human could consider themselves insignificant while at the same time possessing the unique ability to observe and understand the universe they exist in.. that's what's depressing!

EverEvolving

Chips Ahoy wrote: »

what about the string theory, now thats depressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

Might read that later ... when I can't sleep.

Conor108

I love Sagan quotes agus stuff!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9D6xba9Og

TheUsual

Perspective.

Sure the Earth looks small from up there, but Kim Kardashian still has a HUGE arse.

unfortunately

This morning I woke up and realised that I didn’t matter a jot and everything I would ever do would be worthless.
Even if I solved world hunger the human race will probably be extinct in a thousand years which is the blink
of an eye in geological time. We are all pointless little ants on a speck of dust floating aimlessly through the cold
lonely depths of space.

And all people do is trundle about giving a shit about fetes and cake recipes and who is going to win
X-Factor. Look at the universe in all its intimidating bleakness; it’s not even worth bothering to try to think
about attempting to achieve anything. It is all a pointlessly absurd pantomime and here we are, trapped on the
conveyor belt of disappointment, bewilderingly trying our best not to lose our little ape minds.

Life is just a long series of kicks to the proverbials; a pointless struggle to achieve the non-existent “good life”.
Real life doesn’t work like that – nobody has ever “finished” life – because you can’t; you just trudge wearily along
the treadmill of despair whilst the Fates sling malignant tumours and divorce at you. Hurdle after disheartening
hurdle trying to make a decent living but by the time that starts happening you body gives up and begins to
slowly dismantle itself from the inside out.

And what do we do? Well we just make up gown-wearing happy anti-death cults which weekly celebrate the
fact that when we kick the oxygen habit we still get to do all the nice things like stay alive and stuff. Because
even though death looks convincingly like the end – lying motionlessly on the floor, the inevitable rotting of the
brain – it isn’t actually, ‘cause after this life, for no obvious reason, you get another. And the next won’t be as shit
as this one, oh yeah and it will be eternal. Bloody brilliant, I’ve been blissfully unaware for billions of years and
then a wayward sperm bumps into an egg and I am suddenly called into existence. An existence that’s eternal,
that’s just great; I don’t even get the satisfaction of knowing that maybe someday this hell will eventually end.
No it goes forever and ever; trillions of years, eons of banal happy smiley
loveliness. Trapped forever in the most drawn out cocktail party of your life; and it never ends. Never. Fucking NEVER.
INFINITELY. MY GOD KILL ME, KILL ME NOW.

But then I rolled over and found a packet of Fruit Pastilles, so swings and roundabouts.

Pdfile

the duck party gif made me lol...

TheUsual

Pdfile wrote: »

the duck party gif made me lol...

If you really want to dance along, try listening to this at the same time ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXt3yh2g0s