everything we know originates from that small speck of the universe. everyone we know.
another image of our home from saturn taken in July 2013


this is not to signify the uselessness of our race or place but rather the fact that we really don't have many options once we screw up ourselves and this place.

Imagination? Sure. In the same ways that the Bible, Koran and other religious tracts can be considered fiction.

It is also skewed by our view of space/time as real. Think of this:

1. We are told the universe started as a big bang – an ‘outward’ explosion from a singularity which created the space/time framework on which matter/energy became distributed to form the Universe that we see.

2. We are also told that a black hole is an implosion of matter/energy into an infinite point (a singularity). Yet despite this implosion, the black hole retains all the information that existed before it was formed , including the space/time, matter/energy distribution that existed before– see black hole information paradox: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/...es-destroy-information/

Meaning: If we lived inside a black hole (a singularity) we would never know the difference.

Space/time is an illusion. So is matter/energy for that matter.

On pale blue dot, another way to look at the scenario is for instance consider a plane up high in the sky...it appears 1 feet long...in reality it is tens of metres long. The illusion of 1 feet is the result of our own limitations..e.g. we rely on light from the object to the eye.... and interpretation of size is affected by the distance...yet in reality, the plane is same size and doesn't lose any of its properties. So the pale blue dot is an illusion, the result of voyager's own limitations rather than the converse.

sounds like the story of the ants.

nyinyi barabara zenu, nyumba zenu basically everything we have built that has covered the earth and is impervious to the sun is a mere 0.45% of the total land mass?..... tukiwa tumetoa Greenland and Antarctica? kweli hakuna kitu tumefanya!!

I got into this goose chase when I saw an image that said in order to power the earth with solar power all we needed to do was capture solar power in areas these big

I thought to myself... well.... why not just do it? then i realised that humans have never done anything this big ever!!!

That's the point really... this photo was taken in 1990... before the multiparty era. From where it is now it's impossible to see our planet. So imagine from the next star. Someone said.... if we could use the grape fruit analogy if the sun were a grape fruit then earth would be a crystal of raw sugar some 50 ft away but the nearest star would be another grape fruit 2900 miles away. I am thinking one is in Kenya and another one in south Africa.

Why does God need to be feared?

Kwani what is he afraid of?

To steal from Churchill - observations, mathematical modeling, testing and the scientific process are the least inadequate ways of understanding the universe out of all that have been tried.

I guess you can Google "space-time continuum" and ask the upside down ? To give you his/her defination and philosophical debate about what space is. For me space is a 3dimensional fabric that matter occupied.all there is is space And occasional matter occupying it.