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eddstarr88
6987 Posts
11 years, 10 months ago
Dateline July 19, 2013

Cassini caught Earth in a photo taken as the spacecraft looked back toward the Sun. Saturn is in shadow while the rings are beautifully sunlit.

Retro Junk's latests updates prevent me from posting links so I'll let you guys copy and paste the following tag back to NASA's Cassini Mission page.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsreleases/newsrelease20130722/

The Eldorado is dead. Long live the Eldorado.
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    Guild_Navigator
    2012 Posts
    11 years, 10 months ago
    To quote Carl Sagan:

    "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."
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      Pinwheel
      532 Posts
      11 years, 10 months ago
      Very interesting truth!


      Guild_Navigator
      To quote Carl Sagan:

      "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."
      "It lies in the valley of the vision, where the slain are not slain with the sword. In the darkest shadows of light, there you'll find a door..."
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