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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 08/03/2009 : 14:53:26
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Initially found on Phil Plait's blog (long live the Plait), through Derek from Skepticality.
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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.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
Edited by - Simon on 08/03/2009 14:53:56
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 08/04/2009 : 02:02:41 [Permalink]
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| Skepticality is our friend. Listen to Derek and Swoopy's podcast if you haven't already. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/04/2009 : 08:44:32 [Permalink]
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Ho, I do... There is even one episode with a quote from me (we did speak briefly about you, by the way, when I met them). |
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.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2009 : 14:40:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Initially found on Phil Plait's blog (long live the Plait), through Derek from Skepticality.
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Hmm, badastronomy was originally how I was introduced to SFN. Found BA when trying to find info on that horrible FOX show about how the moon landings were fake. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 10:46:01 [Permalink]
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I found SFN when I was looking for info on "Dr. Dino" (Kent Hovind).
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 11:02:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Trish
Originally posted by Simon
Initially found on Phil Plait's blog (long live the Plait), through Derek from Skepticality.
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Hmm, badastronomy was originally how I was introduced to SFN. Found BA when trying to find info on that horrible FOX show about how the moon landings were fake.
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Hi Trish. Same here for me too...stumbling in from the old board at Bad Astronomy. Those were the days. I still have the BA bio list of a lot of the posters there.
For a few of us, as I recall, SFN became a 'shelter' from the BA forum conspiracy nuts. Who was one of the worst...Piper? He'd post his Apollo/Fox nutcase junk and boast Phil Plait would soon be "flippin' burgers" after he was 'done' with him. What a riot! |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 13:40:42 [Permalink]
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The Bad Astronomy Bitch Board started here on June 5th, 2001, as a place to complain about what was going on in the Bad Astronomy forums without violating Phil Plait's rules.
At least, that's how I understand it. I wasn't here when the BABB started up. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Moon hoaxing?
