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Amazing Astronomy Site

www.wikisky.org

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Look's good. Bookmarked. :tu:

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Apropos this...

Carl Sagan reflecting on a picture of Earth taken from 4 billion miles away by Voyager I

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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.

Very humbling...

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

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I did and I couldnt believe what came on my screen!!!!!!!

Thats an interesting site!!

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What is your monitor size/resolution?

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I had forgotten about Cobby's link to this site. It was one of links I lost, along with a lot of other interesting sites, when a hard drive unexpectedly went to hardware heaven over 10 years ago.

For once Dude's delving into ancient threads has provided me with something interesting. :D

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler (Post 34390561)

Apropos this...

Carl Sagan reflecting on a picture of Earth taken from 4 billion miles away by Voyager I

Very humbling...

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Yet this is the planet God so loves that God Himself came to as Jesus and died for. (He didn't stay dead!) I'd say that He put all those stars in place to show His glory to us here.

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh (Post 36088798)

Yet this is the planet God so loves that God Himself came to as Jesus and died for. (He didn't stay dead!) I'd say that He put all those stars in place to show His glory to us here.

Yeh. OK, if you say so.

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To be fair, Carl Sagan was invoked earlier in the thread. His moral philosophy arises from contemplating Earth from afar and concluding that we need to do our best for one another because Earth is alone and there’s nobody coming to our aid. Plenty of religiously-minded people have contemplated the beauty of the created universe and found it a source of faith and encouragement. It would be churlish to let Sagan’s comments stand unchallenged whilst being dismissive of others. ;)

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh (Post 36088798)

Yet this is the planet God so loves that God Himself came to as Jesus and died for. (He didn't stay dead!) I'd say that He put all those stars in place to show His glory to us here.

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2021/08/1.gif

Not sure if you're being serious or not....

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Originally Posted by idi banashapan (Post 36088880)

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2021/08/1.gif

Not sure if you're being serious or not....

He’s being serious.

Paul, an early leader of the Christian community, wrote that the creation itself is evidence of God’s power and divinity.

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Originally Posted by joglynne

Im glad I helped ya mate :)

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Originally Posted by Hugh

What is your monitor size/resolution?

800x600 Hugh,I reckon yours is 1280x something right??

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Originally Posted by Dude111 (Post 36088906)

Im glad I helped ya mate :)

800x600 Hugh,I reckon yours is 1280x something right??

Gigabyte 34" 3440 x 1440, 144Hz, 1ms, coupled with a Gigabyte AORUS Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080X with 8GB memory.

Wow thats quite big!!!!

Ya..In my browser it says 800x553 at the bottom alot so I guess thats the dimentions in seeing IN MY BROWSER....