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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 02/23/2009 : 20:15:04
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I just discovered this on Youtube (probably through some link clicking, but I can't remember from where) and it's quite excellent.
There are a lot of them and quite a few treat of religion (and there even one about the Reptilian conspiracy!) and it's quite funny really.
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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.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 20:40:28 [Permalink]
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| Nice one, Simon. You never know...something like this simple little animation can have good effect with some believers to 'shake their dust', so to speak; maybe get them thinking a bit. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 21:04:10 [Permalink]
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| Unlikely, but at least we can have a laugh... |
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.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 21:14:32 [Permalink]
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| Every little bit helps. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 00:12:39 [Permalink]
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These are funny! The bug eyes and yellow teeth are a nice touch.
Here's another: Jesus and Me |
I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone* -Dick Cheney
*some restrictions may apply |
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Some grey bloke...
