{"id":2722,"date":"2013-07-26T21:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2013-07-26T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:08:18","slug":"reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2728\" title=\"godoriginearthpalebluedot\">NASA released a fantastic photo this past week depicting the Earth as a pale blue dot through the rings of Saturn. The photo was taken by the Cassini space probe that is in orbit studying the giant gas planet and it&#8217;s moons. This picture brings to mind other humbling NASA shots like the photos of the Earth and the moon together taken by numerous spacecraft(<a title=\"Voyager 1 takes 1st photos of Earth and moon together, September 18, 1977\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edn.com\/electronics-blogs\/edn-moments\/4396562\/Voyager-1-takes-1st-photos-of-Earth-and-moon-together--September-18--1977\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a title=\"Photos of the Earth and Moon \u2013 From Other Worlds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/14112\/photos-of-the-earth-and-moon-from-other-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"Jupiter Probe Snaps Family Photo of Earth &amp; Moon \" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12789-jupiter-probe-photo-earth-moon-juno.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and <a title=\"Family Portrait of the Solar System\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_Portrait_%28Voyager%29\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8216;family portrait&#8217; of the Earth and the other planets in our solar system from Voyager <\/a>as it left our solar system in 1990. Everything that we know and all the history of humanity and life as we know it has originated from that tiny grouping of pixels. Clone stamp it in Photoshop and suddenly, no Earth exists. However, the rest of the Universe keeps going even if we humans and our mythologies and religions disappear. Just think of how advanced our civilization would be if all children started learning about astronomy instead of religion in grade school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2728\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2728\" title=\"godoriginearthpalebluedot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/godoriginearthpalebluedot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/godoriginearthpalebluedot.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/godoriginearthpalebluedot-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn sends a reality check to all religious people on the pale blue dot called Earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA released a fantastic photo this past week depicting the Earth as a pale blue dot through the rings of Saturn. The photo was taken by the Cassini space probe that is in orbit studying the giant gas planet and it&#8217;s moons. This picture brings to mind other humbling NASA shots like the photos of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reality Check&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,68,35],"tags":[755,754,756,252,69,494,70,319,752,748,751,98,188,753,750,730,749,757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}