Reply #3: This is the kind of stuff that makes me sad.

[Rabrrrrrr]

The universe is a huge, beautiful, amazing place - as is our very own earth. So much to explore, so much to see and learn and experience.

And yet here on earth where we humans are, we fight over idiotic bullshit about religious and nationalistic and racial triumphalism; we fight over utterly ignorant things like whether we should pollute the earth, whether some people shouldn't have health care or access to clean water or food, and whether everyone has a right to live where they want and be self-determined.

So much frakking idiocy that keeps us coming together for what should be our real journey - exploring all the possibilities of the cosmos, from music and art to space exploration to science to thought.

But no, we spend half our budget on ways to kill people, and spend about 98% of our political time fighting the visionless assholes who don't want us to evolve or create a society and world in which exploration would never be considered "optional" and in which leaving people to hunger would never be considered "okay".

Sorry to get political in the science forum, but as soon as I saw that picture, I was washed by sadness that we live in a world in which few people will care about that photo and all that it represents, but will care about who's having sex with whom and how, or care that a brown-skinned person accidentally born somewhere else might come here and actually thrive as a human being.