The worst things human beings do.

Listening to Chris Evans this morning on the radio, he had Prof. Brian Cox and asked him his favourite photo is in relation to science. 'Pale Blue dot.' So I checked it out and it is absolutely amazing but below is from a book of the same name. Google the image.

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 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.
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 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 this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, 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.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. 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 with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
— Carl Sagan[24][25]

 
Don't worry, according to Greta the whole country will be underwater by 2027.
Not Greta actually, scientists. You know, those people who study it. Know what they're talking about, at the last count 95% agreed. She just repeated what should be common knowledge, unless you prefer the Trumpian moron view obviously. There's millions of the utterly stupid cunts, who rely on Hank from Alabama on FB, toting a gun and say8ng it's all a myth as he had to turn his heating on in winter.
 
Not Greta actually, scientists. You know, those people who study it. Know what they're talking about, at the last count 95% agreed. She just repeated what should be common knowledge, unless you prefer the Trumpian moron view obviously. There's millions of the utterly stupid cunts, who rely on Hank from Alabama on FB, toting a gun and say8ng it's all a myth as he had to turn his heating on in winter.
really! well I live on a beach, any idea when my home will be under water? I hope its not next week as we are having a bbq
 
really! well I live on a beach, any idea when my home will be under water? I hope its not next week as we are having a bbq
You're ok, you could have a great time. Remember to clean up after you us all I woukd ask. :) Maybe look to move further back up the beach in a few years though. Or get stilts. :)
 
You bastard, I looked at your post and wondered what you were on about. I re-read your article and couldnt see any reference to Monks......
So I re read mine.......... Worra dick.

Actually it is the plural of Mink :-)
Sorry my good man, but if you are going to bowl bouncers ;)

You are of course accurate in linking me to the Bastard Clan :)
 

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