Honestly, is there anything more beautiful than the Earth in the Cosmos?

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lxskllr

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but Africa is by far the most impressive continent. It destroys all others.

How so? It has some impressive animal life, but the climate eats shit. Also, much of the impressive animal life eats humans :^D
 

zinfamous

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How so? It has some impressive animal life, but the climate eats shit. Also, much of the impressive animal life eats humans :^D

how is that not cool?

but no, it's simply big as hell. There are few world maps drawn to proper scale that really show how big Africa is. Most emphasize Europe (size fo a pea in reality) or NA.

Africa is a fucking monster. the cool thing about its climate is that it doesn't obey the rules that we would expect it to...
 
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Ummm... yes.

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lxskllr

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how is that not cool?

but no, it's simply big as hell. There are few world maps drawn to proper scale that really show how big Africa is. Most emphasize Europe (size fo a pea in reality) or NA.

Africa is a fucking monster. the cool thing about its climate is that it doesn't obey the rules that we would expect it to...

I guess I prefer climate diversity to flora/fauna diversity. I'd take North America or Europe to Africa.
 

Locut0s

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Yes it's beautiful but a lot of that has to do with the conscious realization that that is our home. The blue spec of dust in the ocean of blackness on which all that we know on a day to day basis takes place. If we leave that aspect aside there are plenty of other places in the Universe just as beautiful if not much more so. Nebula, Super Nova Remnants, Galaxies etc etc.. all are astoundingly beautiful.
 

fatpat268

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Yes it's beautiful but a lot of that has to do with the conscious realization that that is our home. The blue spec of dust in the ocean of blackness on which all that we know on a day to day basis takes place. If we leave that aspect aside there are plenty of other places in the Universe just as beautiful if not much more so. Nebula, Super Nova Remnants, Galaxies etc etc.. all are astoundingly beautiful.

Also, our BEST pictures are of the earth. Get a similar quality one of saturn or jupiter and it'd be equally beautiful, imo
 

JulesMaximus

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I'm sure there are fantastic sights to behold throughout the universe. Whether or not man will ever see them other than through a telescope is questionable.
 

FeuerFrei

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So Job was right when he said "He hangeth the earth upon nothing." Makes you wonder how Job could know that thousands of years B.C. God must have shared that tidbit with him.
 

Arcadio

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I think Uranus is prettier.

EDIT: damn you amd'unter!!!!
 
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disappoint

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So Job was right when he said "He hangeth the earth upon nothing." Makes you wonder how Job could know that thousands of years B.C. God must have shared that tidbit with him.

No, he was wrong. See, gravity is the warping of spacetime. Obviously something is there to be warped. So empty space really isn't empty at all. Isn't science so much more interesting than fairytales?
 

disappoint

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Quote: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. American King James Version

Sounds like something a mentally ill person would say.

just kiddin m8 ;-)