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“Mites on a Plumb”—Carl Sagan

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Isaac1 year ago

@BrianRoemmele Sagan's metaphor brilliantly captures our cosmic scale - if Earth were a plumb, all of humanity would be microscopic mites, yet we've mapped the universe billions of light years out. Our intellectual reach far exceeds our physical size.

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Alexander Boldizar2 years ago

"Elmore Leonard meets Nabokov, Michael Crichton meets Vonnegut, Carl Hiaasen meets Joseph Heller. And it has what is probably the best gunfight in literary history."

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Holmesy1 year ago

Mite makes right

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Mike Kilo1 year ago

“And yet here we are, Dr. Sagan, apparently the only voices in the universe talking about how insignificant we are.”

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John Francis Backus1 year ago

Yes. Very creative and intelligent mites alive on the most exquisite plum found yet to exist. Unique, just like each mite. "Out of the bowl of life I picked me a plumb....". How incredibly rare life is here on this home we call earth.

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Aarif | Marketing | Chatbots | AI1 year ago

Humbling, yet awe-inspiring

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TravTrav30001 year ago

One of my Heroes. Carl Sagan.

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Narwhal Tacos1 year ago

Simulation Theory disagrees. Those other Stars and Universes only exist because we needed them to explain & contain our boundaries of possibility. Our individual Awareness is the only Universe.

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lightfudds1 year ago

Me: So Carl, God is pathetic ? Carl: As if - There is no God ......

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🌋1 year ago

Who's on Horton the elephant's fluffball

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