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<3 - Bec Rowe @d0tski

I'm working on a presentation for my church using this "Pale Blue Dot" picture. It stunned me the first time I saw it. - ha3rvey (free hugs!)

Ha! - jjprojects

It's not inconsistent with religion, but it challenges all the earth-centric premises of most earthling religions. to think anything significant could possibly have happened in the space of a few thousand years is the ultimate hubris. and any theory of existence that doesn't take into account life off earth is nonsense, - Dave Winer

imho of course - Dave Winer

I super-like this. It's quite amazing to see that large mass of people in front of Barack Obama. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Reuters is reporting 200k came to the speech. - Rex Hammock from twhirl

@Ranjit, sorry, but that was a rather stupid comment, +1 to what Michael said - Gina Häußge

if @Ranjit's point is that it's great to see how far humankind has come in terms of racial/ethnic equality, then I agree. But regardless, kind of an insensitive way to put it. - graham mudd

Amazing! - Bill Sodeman

I don't care what anyone says. Both McCain and Bush have to be wicked envious. - AJ Kohn

Have you seen the original size? Almost everyone has a camera! Whoa! - AJ Batac

Hitler identified with the Germanic people, Stalin identified with the Russian people. to me all such definitions are kind of stupid, what with us being 5% removed from the chimpanzee. but such people have always tried to establish boundaries and a monolithic identity within such boundaries. a picture/event like this puts a lie to such separations. i wish people, like Hitler, could see how far the future is from the "truth" they saw - Ranjit Mathoda

graham, i don't think people have come that far in terms of racial/ethnic equality if they are still defining separate races/ethnic groups. i do think we are happy being mostly nicer to people of "other" groups, but that's not quite the same. check out an online dating site and see how many people prefer to date people of a particular group. - Ranjit Mathoda

Throughout the speech there are jabs at the Germans. I'm surprised they were still clapping when he mentioned "Never Again!".... in Darfur. - Sam Pullara

Amazing. looking at it in larger view, and THEN in original view. The reduced views don't cut it at all. - Susan A. Kitchens

Susan is right. Amazing photo and love all the digital cameras. - Robert Scoble

great photo, and EVERYONE was taking a picture of Obama. - Baard @ Pixum

I see a guy holding out a laptop lol - ◄ani625Ξ

The laptop guy is amazing! Great picture. Funny to see most people looking at the screens of their camera's and not straight at the stage - Peter van Teeseling

Laptop guy did it for me too - Toby Graham

Looks like he's already won the election then. - Sam from twhirl

And then 100000 + people uploaded the same picture from their point of view to Flickr. It would be interesting to compare them all. - DivemasterDoug

Obama campaigning in the 58th state. I think that he forgot that we live...over here. - Kreg Steppe from twhirl

Great photo - Jamie

it would be really cool if those 100000 + people uploaded their photos into Photosynth :) - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

I would like to think that these politicians feel humble when they stand before a sea of humanity. I hope they remember that they are supposed to be working for our greater good. I can't imagine standing where he's standing. - Yolanda

Absolutely! A Photosynth database of that event would be awesome! - Soulhuntre from twhirl

@Shawn: If all of us Americans had speechwriters like Obama, we could make it look like we were as passionate about our global image as he does ;-) - Kirk Kittell

@Rex Hammock: Yeppers, i was there and the officials said, that about 250.000 people were there. It was really a very awesome event, hey - 250.000 people came to the Berliner Siegessäule and Barack Obama isn't even yet the next president :-). Don't know what happens after the elections ;-) - Ronald

Man, the brush-lipped Fuhrer is finally gone...this is a sign. - Kamath (नमः)

It's just so sad. People really want to believe. But Politics is just a dirty game. There's probably no genuine saviour out there. - john conroy