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[-] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 146 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wrong. The arrow points to Mars, not to Earth.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 39 points 1 year ago

So it's a message from the future specifically for Elon Musk.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

His Roadster is beckoning...

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

This meme isn’t directed toward humans.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 10 points 1 year ago

Where's Marvin when you need him?

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Brain the size of a planet and you ask me stuff like this? Call that job satisfaction? Cuz I don't.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I think he meant Marvin the Marian (the loony tune), not Marvin the robot

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a weiner!

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Cocky-ass martians smh

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's kinda weird

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 1 year ago

Getting a lot of memes with errors like this lately.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago

Interaction bait bleed over from commercial social media.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

It was made for the colonists

[-] Nima@leminal.space 8 points 1 year ago
[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm here to drink tea and create future independence days, and I'm all out of tea.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I assume this in regard to the possible evidence of life on mars, recently announced.

[-] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I'll go with Occam's razor instead and say that's just a small mistake 😛

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 year ago

Upvoted for linking Wikipedia and not some shitty YT video.

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You can't get to this star in Elite Dangerous, but you can get to VY Canis Majoris which is 1420 radii

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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago
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[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 19 points 1 year ago

Must be a guy. Probably trying to figure out how to get to Venus.

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[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Found the Perseverance account

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“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 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. 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.

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, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Edit: As I took another look at the comments and the picture, the picture points to Mars. I confess I commented because of assumptions that "know your place" and the arrow points to our pale blue dot, Earth. Guilty as charged in reading the headline and not the content. The Omnissiah is not amused at the weakness of my flesh.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for reminding us of this. We need it more than ever at the moment.

[-] casmael@mander.xyz 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

joke’s on you, I’m zaphod beeblebrox

Joke’s on you, I’m zaphod beeblebrox

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

You need to cut back on the pan galactic gargle blasters mate

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Zaphod’s just this guy, you know.

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

He's a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Was hoping someone would do this.

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[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

On Mars? TIL

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

It's all relative though. Yes, we're insignificant to the rest of the universe, but...

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

literally this. there's more cells in each human than there are humans on this planet.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago
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I sure love living in a burning planet where I have to pay taxes to pedophiles who want to send me to a concentration camp.

[-] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm insignificant?

Oh, thank God

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Anyone fixating on size this much is definitely compensating for something.

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[-] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago

"Hey that's where you live too cunt."

[-] freijon@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

What are the 4 dots after Neptune?

[-] groet@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago

Dwarf planets: Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris

There should also be one (Ceres) in Jupiters shadow, right of the planet the arrow is pointing to. Which is Mars and not earth btw ...

[-] millie@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Such a weird mentality. Why would being small make us any less significant than something large? Why would being large make us any more significant than something small? Silly.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I am the result of 14 billion years of cosmic evolution.

I am a thermodynamic miracle.

I am the waking universe looking back at itself.

[-] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, big shelf though!

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Martians say: "Fuck off!"

Yes, they speak English. They speak every Earth language and more.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

actually I don't care. I don't have to be the star of the show, I just want to be happy and I'm hot enough to be my own star (or sun to be specific).

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