четверг, 9 октября 2014 г.
понедельник, 6 октября 2014 г.
Одинокая пылинка в великой всеохватывающей космической тьме
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долгого перерыва хотелось бы начать с цитаты из книги Карла Сагана, "PALE BLUE DOT: A Vision of the Human Future in Space":
"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, ever king and
peasant, every young couple in love, every moth 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
momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless visited by the
inhabitants of one corner of this pixel 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."
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