Random, amazing photo

[IIOY]

This is a photo of earth (in the circle) taken by Voyager, which is 11 billion miles away and about to leave the solar system. I'm feeling rather insignificant at the moment.

[ttt]

Whoa....

[summer]

We are totally insignificant. I wish more people realized that.

[ringstrue]

That's not the earth glowing, right? That's the sun?

[IIOY]

Sept 3, 2012 15:31:59 GMT -5 summer said:

We are totally insignificant. I wish more people realized that.

I actually find the idea of insignificance comforting. If we were it, that would be incredibly disappointing.

[thinklikeajellyfish]

Sept 3, 2012 15:44:52 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Sept 3, 2012 15:31:59 GMT -5 summer said:

We are totally insignificant. I wish more people realized that.

I actually find the idea of insignificance comforting. If we were it, that would be incredibly disappointing.

So very, very true. I also think it's incredible that it launched 35 years ago, it is billions of miles away, and we can still recieve images it transmits. I can't get receptionon my cell phone half the time.

I love space. If I had been a little smarter...ok, a lot smarter...I would have loved to be an astronomist.

[bhnumbers]

wow