“We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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
5 Million miles from Earth and moon, by Mars Express
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.” Buckminster Fuller
6 Billion miles away, Voyager 1, 1989
Currently voyager is traveling 38,000 miles per hour. Radio signals take 17hours one way, (17 light hours) and is approximately 13.2 Billion miles from the sun. System shutdowns gradually take place until 2025 then silence. It will remain on its trajectory and speed forever, until moved upon by another force. In the current trajectory will reach the nearest star in its path towards the Big Dipper in 40,000 years. Will anyone be here to know it? It’s time to take back our planet from religions and the businesses of destructive abuse, carelessness and overuse.
TheCommonAtheist 