Earthrise: The stunning photo that changed how we see our planet

The Washington Post ^ | December 24, 2018 | Christian Davenport

[Rummyfan]

Anders never flew again? Did he leave the astronaut program?

[2111USMC]

Don’t you mean “except three”? There were three men on the Apollo 8 crew.

[TalBlack]

I remember that photo and that it looked nothing like the earth as seen in countless Sci fi flicks.

[NorthMountain]

The Earth may indeed be flat but it’s round. Kinda like a CD if you want a visual.

And rides on the backs of four elephants, which stand on the back of a turtle named "Great A'Tuin".

Now, can we dispense with the idiocy?

[NorthMountain]

See the picture in #8. Two in the LEM, a whole lot on Earth ... and one.

[Rummyfan]

Don’t you mean “except three”? There were three men on the Apollo 8 crew.

That photo is not from Apollo 8 - no LM on the Apollo 8 mission.

From some later mission, two of the crew would be in the LM, one in the CM. So yes, every living human being except the one in the CM who took the picture.

Merry Christmas Devil Dog!

[pcottraux]

Psh. Everyone knows Earth is flat. This was doctored up in a basement at “NASA”.

Exactly. That "Earth" is clearly a cardboard cut-out hanging from the black curtain in the background of the "moon-landing" set.

[bk1000]

“Don’t you mean “except three”? There were three men on the Apollo 8 crew.”

Nope. Two were in the LEM, one in the command module.

[blam]

That photo emphasized for me of how important I am.

[2111USMC]

Oops. My bad.

Looking at wrong pic. I had to shrink the #8 pic down before I saw the LEM.

[bk1000]

(Photo in post #8)

[Deplorable American1776]

Wait...Steve Curry - the NBA 'scholar' said we can not go into space and we didn't go to the moon. It's a hoax...it is photoshopped...

Merry Christmas!

[NorthMountain]

I’ll make a wild-eyed guess, here, that you’re FReeping on your phone.

[Textide]

Sagan had his faults, but I always like this perspective of our planet, even though he was referring to this image....

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.

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've ever known.

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

[Louis Foxwell]

The photographer is always left out of the picture.

[KC Burke]

Congrats and thanks.

[KC Burke]

Now you have to account for selfies and such.

Nah, Nah!

[2111USMC]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I am not. I'm on my full size computer.

My eyes aren't what they used to be so I like large font. Once I scrolled the mouse button back I could see the whole pic.

[Freedom4US]

It’s all about you, isn’t it?? ;)

[laplata]

Yes, their analytical skills are lacking.

This lady said the German V-2 rockets that hit England were faked because they couldn’t go into outer space for the same reason your hoaxer nut person said..