EarthsGreatestHits

by philx - uploaded on July 22, 2024, 11:22 am

So this is the goldenest record ever made, sent into space to explain ourselves to aliens. the buttons show two selfies that we got from our probes. i have an ai challenge, tho... if an ai can decipher what the *&^%$ any of this means and create plans for a laser-disc player it wins :-)

but this is a tribute to carl sagan and ann druyan who were inspirations to me... clio says to watch the episode of the 'new' cosmos about nikolai vavilov.

'From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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.' - carl sagan

'blue, blue, the color of our planet from far, far away' - regina spektor 'blue lips'

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_Golden_Record_fx.png

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Day_The_Earth_Smiled_-_Preview.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov

oopsie. to get the corrected version - more dashes! - drive.google.com/file/d/10wwZ3CGky4lvKacECJVwvg42LeADGHrO/view?usp=drive_link