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(Taken from The Planetary Society's website. Anyone who isn't moved by these words is either dumb or dead.)

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around ( Read more... )

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
--Carl Sagan

I just had to share this with everyone. Quoting cumaeansibyl on those loony fundies who think dinosaurs walked with Adam and Eve:

Ah, so that's what that "Footprints" poem was on about:

... the Lord replied,
"The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand,
that, my child,
is when the Tyrannosaurus rex ate you."

I was surprised that at the moment, three of the top stories on Yahoo! News are reporting on religious bullsh**.

1. Pace repeats view that gay sex immoral
Can you believe this crap?! Apparently nobody has learned anything from those days in the sixties with Martin Luther King. I can only imagine 30 to 50 years from now when we will all look back ( Read more... )

...and at one of my destinations, finding a space for your car requires one of two things: luck, or some really long patience. The place was packed (despite the fact that the campus was sprawlingly huge), and any free space was as precious as gold. (And they charge a hefty fee for that as well.) So I finally chanced upon a slot between two other ( Read more... )

OK, so I got my car about two days ago (a new one at that), and today I find out that my tires have been slashed! Not just one, but two!


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Yahoo! News: Pope blasts Europeans for not having enough children"Damn those people who want population control!" But of course, curtailing the earth's population in the year 2007 is surely a bad thing. After all, whoever said, "go forth and multiply" in the first place ( Read more... )

This little news bit, about a principal about to undergo a sex change, was on the local evening news tonight, and I’m rather annoyed that it’s being hyped up as if there is a controversy about it. And it’s primarily broadcast in New York City and the surrounding suburbs no less. The segment featured some interviews from local residents, students ( Read more... )

Pulled off onegoodmove.org:

"Debating a religionist is like playing tennis with someone who lowers the net for their shots and raises it for yours."
--Daniel Dennett

In reply to salamangkiero's comment here[This should have been a response to a comment, but it exceeds the limit of 4300 characters for a comment so here it is ( Read more... )