Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world. —Jack Kerouac

 

Earth, seen from Saturn by NASA's Cassini

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0nce you wipe the dust from your screen,

the remaining blue dot is … us

—Col. Chris Hadfield

 

 

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Consider that:

you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. 

As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 

90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” 

The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star.

Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. 

The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. 

So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. 

This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. 


—NASA Lunar Science Institute

 

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