50 years later

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Post by Joan » 5 years ago

I trust what media is telling me, and my intuition:

This image, published 50 years ago on Christmas Eve, gave humans a new understanding of the blue marble we live on. I to assume the "blue marble" analogy post dates this photo.


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Post by Rutabaga » 5 years ago

Does it also demonstrate how we really Can't Have Nice Things? :-(
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Does it also demonstrate how we really Can't Have Nice Things? :-(
I am hopeful for the future of the planet. We will completely trash the place and wipe ourselves out along with a lot of the biodiversity. However, in a hundred thousand years or so Earth will rebalance and flourish again. Our home has survived catastrophes and mass extinctions before and it will survive one of our making.
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Dunckel wrote:
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I am hopeful for the future of the planet. We will completely trash the place and wipe ourselves out along with a lot of the biodiversity. However, in a hundred thousand years or so Earth will rebalance and flourish again. Our home has survived catastrophes and mass extinctions before and it will survive one of our making.
I know that, but all that suffering and death isn't something that makes me at all "hopeful", sorry.
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Post by Joan » 5 years ago

Well, that did not go as I expected! I thought it was a picture of beauty and hope, and might cheer people up.
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Joan wrote:
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Well, that did not go as I expected! I thought it was a picture of beauty and hope, and might cheer people up.

It cheered me up :D
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Joan wrote:
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Well, that did not go as I expected! I thought it was a picture of beauty and hope, and might cheer people up.
Sorry! It is a remarkable and beautiful image.
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