Its a small world afterall!

Arkanjel

Arkanjel

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I found this picture while surfing the net and thought it would be appreciated here. Perhaps some of you have seen it before, perhaps not. Either way enjoy it!
Info: Earth
This picture was taken from Voyager 1 on Feb 14, 1990. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.
Image: JPL/NASA .

Its mind boggling to think that the Creator of the universe cares so much for such a small speck of dust in such a large universe.

earthfromVoyager.jpg
 
It reminds me of that "perspective machine" in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide series... the one where you saw your relation to the universe, and then you immediately died because the realization of your insignificance made you give up your will to live. What was the name of that?
 
amazing, I'm big on astronomy and everything, I took the 1 semester class 3 times in high school. That would be one thing i wouldnt mind getting a degree in would be astronomy, but its so controversial for a christian to be in the field that i dropped the idea.
 
Talon said:
That would be one thing i wouldnt mind getting a degree in would be astronomy, but its so controversial for a christian to be in the field that i dropped the idea.
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Eh? How so? I can understand why astrology may be controversial, but not astronomy.
 
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[toj.cc]WildBillKickoff said:
It reminds me of that "perspective machine" in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide series... the one where you saw your relation to the universe, and then you immediately died because the realization of your insignificance made you give up your will to live. What was the name of that?
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Something (perspective maybe?) vortex I think. I loved that part. The whole series was pretty hillarious.
 
Zoom in, zoom in, you'll see me, I'm right there, just to the left, I'm waving, can you see me???

Now that they've broken the speed of light barrier, we can send information to that sattalite about what is happening now and get the informatin back to us yesterday. So cool!
 
Astronomy and Christianity

It's funny that you mention astronomy as providing problems for some believers. I attended the Christ Tomlin (Matt Redman, Louie Giglio) concert in Manhattan on October 9th, and he used that very image as the keynote of a presentation involving a series of beautiful photographs taken from the Hubble telescope other spacecraft/scopes.
This photo, taken from the Voyager space probe, is the farthest shot of the earth ever taken. It lead Carl Sagan, a confirmed atheist, to respond with a very poetic statement which included a remark that it shows how we are utterly "without help", because we are so very very alone in the universe.

But Tomlin used this image to show how even though we have a God that is so indescribably powerful and wise that he could create an unfathomably large and beautiful universe, he loved us so much that he sent his son to die for the inhabitants of that tiny inconsequential blue dot. I and my friends were very moved by that presentation. It really helped put things into perspective. No matter how daunting the challenges we come across, whether it be in career, ministry or family, we have a God that is more than capable of handling what all we can imagine to ask, and then even more.

In that, we can have so much Joy and Hope.
=Dave
 
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Yeah, I don't really understand why astronomy could be bad for a believer. For me it just shows God's absolute unfathomable infinite vastness, and it's amazing that he could create something so incredible and would still care for something as little as our planet.
 
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