Saturday, November 6, 2010.
the pale blue dot.
happy carl sagan day! for those who have never heard of him, please google "pale blue dot" along with his name or something. his little speech is incredible...really puts things into perspective for me. it was based off an image taken from the outskirts of our solar system by voyager 1 based on a suggestion made by carl sagan himself.
this is an image of earth caught in the middle of a sunbeam. as carl sagan said, "from this distant vantage point, the earth might not seem of particular interest. but for us, it's different. 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 speech goes on but i feel like it's best said in his voice.
with that said,yesterday sucked. got very little sleep the night before. i broke my favorite sunglasses with the giraffe print [[the ones that someone once complimented me on by saying "those glasses fit your face well". awkward compliments are still compliments. o_O]]. didn't finish my physics tutorial. i blanked out on how to do cross products of vectors during the calculus quiz, but remembered right after i gave up and walked out of class. i was just stressed out...
but the night got better when two of the guys who lived downstairs climbed up onto our balcony and just walked into our apartment. don't know why i never met them before; they're quite nice and sing well. haha.
well, i will now finish off with a list of things i should be doing:
this is an image of earth caught in the middle of a sunbeam. as carl sagan said, "from this distant vantage point, the earth might not seem of particular interest. but for us, it's different. 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 speech goes on but i feel like it's best said in his voice.
with that said,
but the night got better when two of the guys who lived downstairs climbed up onto our balcony and just walked into our apartment. don't know why i never met them before; they're quite nice and sing well. haha.
well, i will now finish off with a list of things i should be doing:
* CONCENTRATE!!!!!!!!
* stop procrastinating!!!!!
