Cool Picture

I came across this picture a few days ago. It is now being used as my desktop wallpaper. It is a picture taken from one of the Mars rovers of Earth. It just makes you feel so small and insignificant. Wait...we are small and insignificant. It is weird to imagine that every person who has ever lived; every war ever waged, all of man's accomplishments and dastardly acts of horror; disease; the hustle and bustle of industrialization; mountains; vast oceans; plunging canyons; every species of plant and animal; and all of our fears and worries take place in that little dot. This is just one little dot in billions and billions of dots (maybe more). Some people take comfort in religion and faith...I take comfort in knowing we are nothing special and just a freckle on the gigantic eternal ass of the cosmos (I bet Sagan wishes he had thought of that line!).

(The speck in the upper right hand corner is just a blown up image of Earth, though it's hard to tell in this format).