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RE: Computational Science Through GRC is the Way of the Future - Not Repetitive POW Hashing

in #science • 7 years ago

Love the "Pale Blue Dot" picture. This is the kind of perspective people need to have when tackling our biggest problems as a species. We're all in this together, all of humanity :)

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     7 years ago (edited)

    Well put. Carl Sagan reflected on that picture in the early 90s during a public lecture. I think his words emphasise the perspective you mentioned:

    We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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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     7 years ago (edited)

    Carl Sagan is a boss! haha