I enjoy talking down to domesticated animals.
I enjoy talking down to domesticated animals.
Lately all I really think about is if all life on this planet was a chaotic accident
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, 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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-Carl Sagan
O Brother,Where Art thou, Lord Of The Rings, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Ferngully, Can't Hardly Wait, Bill and Ted, Spinal Tap, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Star Wars, Back To The Future, A Goofy Movie, Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Indiana Jones, Nightmare Before Christmas, Signs, UHF, Camp Nowhere, Jurassic Park, Jumanji, Vanilla Sky, Little Shop of Horrors, Monty Python, The Breakfast Club, Spirited Away, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 2, I,Robot, Sin City, Cloverfield, Southland Tales, Paeis,Je T'aime, Contact, TMNT, Jaws, I 3 Huckabees, No Country for Old Men, Horton Hears a Who, Hook, Mystery Men, Short Circuit 2, Shaun of the Dead, Cannibal: The Musical, Monster Squad, Spirited Away, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Once Upon a time in the West
LOST, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers, Eerie Indiana, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Heroes, Gummi Bears, Flight of the Conchords, The X Files, Sealab 2021, Ghost Hunters, Seinfeld, Scrubs, Azumanga Daioh, Trigun, Saikano, Evangelion, Love Hina, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
The Dark Tower, Breakfast of Champions, Harry Potter, Farenheit 451, Screwtape Letters, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Lord Of The Rings, Animorphs, Flowers for Algernon, Chronicles of Narnia, Series of Unfortunate Events, Battle Chasers, The Stand
currently reading: Moby Dick
Edgar Allen Poe, Nikola Tesla, Carl Sagan, Einstein,