Upload to Flickr by Andrew Paul KirchoferThis my friends is us (Earth). As I was searching through Flickr and thinking of keywords of picture I would like to see... Daisy's, Shih Tzu's, the ocean, and then I remembered something we just talked about in church Sunday... The pale blue dot. This picture was taken millions of miles away from Earth and in the orange-ish looking ray on the right hand side is a speck... yea that's us! If you click on the link above (Pale Blue Dot aka Earth)you can see the speck better on the Flickr page and then I encourage you to read what an astronomer said of this picture, but I know you probably won't so at least read this paragraph from him...
"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."
Flickr is a great website for finding any picture you can think of. It would be great for creating worksheets, power points, and even posters. This makes searching the web for pictures a lot easier and now you can save them and keep all photos in one spot without having a million saved photos on your computer and taking up your memory space. I will defiantly be using Flickr more often,
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