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yeah the kid at the airport is definitely a lil smart ass. maybe someone should inform him that there isnt much tanning going on in florida at the moment.

I think his point was the guy at the beginning that kept spinning his wheels to prolong the inevitable (and cause further damage to others' cars).

that was exactly my point.... thank you.

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Check out the image above. Doesn't seem like much, does it? Maybe someone snapped a picture while the lens cap was still on.

Take another look. On closer examination, the picture resolves into four bands of light. Check out the band farthest to the right. Look about halfway down. There is a small dot, brighter than its surroundings. It isn't a speck of dust, it isn't a smudge on the camera lens or on your monitor.

It's us.

It's all of us.

It's Earth.

In 1990, at the request of famed astronomer and broadcaster Carl Sagan, NASA sent a command to the Voyager 1 spacecraft, on its way out of the Solar System, to turn its camera in the direction from whence its came. The above image is the result.

The picture is frequently referred to as the "pale blue dot", and provided both the frontispiece and the title for one of Sagan's most celebrated books, published in 1994. Sagan himself, as was his wont, expressed its significance with an eloquence to which most of us can only aspire:

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. [...] 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.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/pale-blue-dot.html

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I have a question...how come you can see Earth but none of the other planets/sun?

They are in other parts of the solar system. They (planets) wouldn't line up all in a row because of their rotation. Not sure about the sun unless it's over to the right or left. The Earth could be on the outer part of it's rotation from the sun.

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I have a question...how come you can see Earth but none of the other planets/sun?

Mainly because the distances are actually so huge. There is way more "space" between any actual celestial objects than we can really wrap our heads around. Check this out: http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

For those who don't want to click, its basically an exercise for science classes. Short version: If the sun was a typical bowling ball, the earth would be approximately the size of a pepper corn 26 yards away. Amazing. Pluto would be ~1/2 a mile away. The nearest star to our sun would, in this model, be 4000 miles away. Space is really, really big.

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Mainly because the distances are actually so huge. There is way more "space" between any actual celestial objects than we can really wrap our heads around. Check this out: http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

For those who don't want to click, its basically an exercise for science classes. Short version: If the sun was a typical bowling ball, the earth would be approximately the size of a pepper corn 26 yards away. Amazing. Pluto would be ~1/2 a mile away. The nearest star to our sun would, in this model, be 4000 miles away. Space is really, really big.

That's why they call it space...because there's a lot of it.

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