Comments on: Earth Day http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:14:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Topics about Petruchio » Archive » Earth Day | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-16120 Topics about Petruchio » Archive » Earth Day | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:13:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/#comment-16120 [...] Another fellow blogger added an interesting post on Earth Day | The Intersection | Discover MagazineHere’s a small excerpt… human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one and other and to preserve and cherish this pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.’ ~ Carl Sagan … [...] [...] Another fellow blogger added an interesting post on Earth Day | The Intersection | Discover MagazineHere’s a small excerpt… human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one and other and to preserve and cherish this pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.’ ~ Carl Sagan … [...]

]]> By: MadScientist http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15965 MadScientist Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:05:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/#comment-15965 Anyone remember that Walt Kelly cartoon: http://www.igopogo.com/we_have_met.htm For the benefit of the historically challenged, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" is from a letter written by Cpt. Oliver Perry in the US War of 1812: "We have met the enemy and they are ours: two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." So as you can see, Pogo takes the quote out of context (captured enemy vessels), but Kelly did change the wording. Anyone remember that Walt Kelly cartoon:

http://www.igopogo.com/we_have_met.htm

For the benefit of the historically challenged, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours” is from a letter written by Cpt. Oliver Perry in the US War of 1812: “We have met the enemy and they are ours: two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop.” So as you can see, Pogo takes the quote out of context (captured enemy vessels), but Kelly did change the wording.

]]> By: Ashutosh http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15962 Ashutosh Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:35:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/22/earth-day/#comment-15962 And of course: <i>"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"...</i> And of course:

“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”…

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