If any of you have brilliant photography work you'd like to share, I'd love to add it to the site. Obviously, the photos need to be big–and horizontally aligned.
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Gracias!
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Do you know the names of all 50 states ? I completed the quiz in 4:45. Can you do better?
What Do You Know?
"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own."
"The most important thing in life is to see that you are never beaten."
"The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man."
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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
