50 years later

[Joan]

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.

[Rutabaga]

Does it also demonstrate how we really Can't Have Nice Things? :-(

[Dunckel]

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.

[Rutabaga]

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.

[Joan]

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

[Lullabelle]

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

[Rutabaga]

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.