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	<title>Comments on: The Sun glints off a water world</title>
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		<title>By: Yerodretep</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-341001</link>
		<dc:creator>Yerodretep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;It’s a reminder of how big Earth is, how easy it is to get lost here, and how much of it there’s still to explore..&#039; ..and in all that we are still that Pale Blue Dot that Carl Sagan reminded us, a mere dust mote in the vast Universe:

From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot :

&#039;...    From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it&#039;s different. Consider again that dot. That&#039;s here. That&#039;s home. That&#039;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 &quot;superstar,&quot; every &quot;supreme leader,&quot; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

    The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#039;ve ever known.
    —Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi ...&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;It’s a reminder of how big Earth is, how easy it is to get lost here, and how much of it there’s still to explore..&#8217; ..and in all that we are still that Pale Blue Dot that Carl Sagan reminded us, a mere dust mote in the vast Universe:</p>
<p>From : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot</a> :</p>
<p>&#8216;&#8230;    From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it&#8217;s different. Consider again that dot. That&#8217;s here. That&#8217;s home. That&#8217;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 &#8220;superstar,&#8221; every &#8220;supreme leader,&#8221; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.</p>
<p>    The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#8217;ve ever known.<br />
    —Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi &#8230;&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Gonzo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-341000</link>
		<dc:creator>Gonzo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Haha! @Esther - #17 - Spoiled By Science: Expects an alien water world &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;. ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haha! @Esther &#8211; #17 &#8211; Spoiled By Science: Expects an alien water world <i>now</i>. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Esther</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340999</link>
		<dc:creator>Esther</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Beautiful, but... honestly a little anti-climactic. I was expecting something a little more spectacular. That, and a larger picture (and yes I clicked the picture to enlarge it). Also... misleading headline. Didn&#039;t think they were talking about Earth at first. : Got all excited.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautiful, but&#8230; honestly a little anti-climactic. I was expecting something a little more spectacular. That, and a larger picture (and yes I clicked the picture to enlarge it). Also&#8230; misleading headline. Didn&#8217;t think they were talking about Earth at first. : Got all excited.</p>
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		<title>By: owlpoop</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340998</link>
		<dc:creator>owlpoop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There was a proposal back in the 70&#039;s to use the spreading of the Sun glint to estimate  sea state/wave height.  The spreading of the image can be calculated from the RMS roughness of the sea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a proposal back in the 70&#8242;s to use the spreading of the Sun glint to estimate  sea state/wave height.  The spreading of the image can be calculated from the RMS roughness of the sea.</p>
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		<title>By: Nigel Depledge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340997</link>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Depledge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The BA said:
&lt;blockquote&gt;there’s no info I could find on when this was taken, or what part of the planet it shows&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Phil, it shows the ocean.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The BA said:</p>
<blockquote><p>there’s no info I could find on when this was taken, or what part of the planet it shows</p></blockquote>
<p>Phil, it shows the ocean.</p>
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		<title>By: Nigel Depledge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340996</link>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Depledge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chris R (9) said:
&lt;blockquote&gt;I’m not entirely sure where BST is.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Shame on you!

British Summer Time is on the Prime Meridian.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris R (9) said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I’m not entirely sure where BST is.</p></blockquote>
<p>Shame on you!</p>
<p>British Summer Time is on the Prime Meridian.</p>
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		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340995</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BST is British Summer Time (Clocks for forward an hour in Spring and return back an hour in Autumn).  BST is +0100.  1hr ahead of GMT.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BST is British Summer Time (Clocks for forward an hour in Spring and return back an hour in Autumn).  BST is +0100.  1hr ahead of GMT.</p>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340994</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I assume BST = British Summer Time. Which is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) plus 1 hour)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I assume BST = British Summer Time. Which is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) plus 1 hour)</p>
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		<title>By: Ed Smith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340993</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do please also note that fragile thin blue line of atmosphere hugging the horizon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do please also note that fragile thin blue line of atmosphere hugging the horizon.</p>
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		<title>By: Gonzo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/13/the-sun-glints-off-a-water-world/#comment-340992</link>
		<dc:creator>Gonzo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is one of the most beautiful shots of Earth I&#039;ve ever seen. I say that as someone who had the rosetta image of the crescent earth you posted as my desktop at work for months. Thanks, as always, Phil.

EDIT: Location? Anyone know. As mentioned, it&#039;s not high res enough (although it looks nice as my new desktop). But I don&#039;t see spit, but water. It&#039;s gotta be over the Pacific Ocean somewhere.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is one of the most beautiful shots of Earth I&#8217;ve ever seen. I say that as someone who had the rosetta image of the crescent earth you posted as my desktop at work for months. Thanks, as always, Phil.</p>
<p>EDIT: Location? Anyone know. As mentioned, it&#8217;s not high res enough (although it looks nice as my new desktop). But I don&#8217;t see spit, but water. It&#8217;s gotta be over the Pacific Ocean somewhere.</p>
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