Yeah,soon it is going to become a case of - "Yaaawn, another Gas Giant". Once (when all around was green fields) things like Space Shuttle launches were a MAJOR event weren't they!! Eventually everybody was like - "Yeah yeah, whatever. Talk to the hand cause the face ain't listenin'" (well,some did I'm sure).
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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, 11th February 1996
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Great photo. I'm waiting for your blog post on this recently discovered gas giant which is apparently multiple times bigger than Jupiter?
:) Just been reading about that. They are finding planets at the rate of a couple a month!
I think its fantastic!
Yeah,soon it is going to become a case of - "Yaaawn, another Gas Giant". Once (when all around was green fields) things like Space Shuttle launches were a MAJOR event weren't they!! Eventually everybody was like - "Yeah yeah, whatever. Talk to the hand cause the face ain't listenin'" (well,some did I'm sure).
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