I didn't see a good niche for this post, so i decided where better than general discussion. Let me start by saying, I am fascinated with Astronomy. If you ever had the chance to look up and see the stars, and I mean to be far away from the city, and to see how beautiful they are. (If you can't spot the milkyway, you don't know what i mean.) All those little dots filling the sky. Each one a MASSIVE ball of burning gas. Some even have planets around them! even the spaces between the stars are filled with countless galaxies. It is hard to get all this out without babbling away about what goes on out there. To realize just how very tiny we are. Here is a link to a picture taken by the Voyager spacecraft of Earth at about 4 billion miles away.
http://www.planetary.org/html/news/a...s/earthpbd.jpg
Imagine you somewhere on that little dot reading this at your home or work. Think about all the people this world is made up of, and how we can so easily hate eachother. How we sometimes feel "better" than, or "bigger" than someone else. Look closely at that picture and imagine what someone that far away would think. "Just another star." I don't know about you guys, but maybe when you think of the BIG picture, our petty differences don't really add up to more than one "pale blue dot."
Something to think about.