Cat scratching? No, pretty cool? Definitely.

A Natural Scratch customer who has become a good long distance friend sent the following to me this morning:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/?IDNumber=PIA05547

Please have a look for a view of Earth you almost certainly have never seen before. The photo at the site reminds me of Carl Sagan's wonderful book, *A Pale Blue Dot*.

Among many observations, Sagan makes the obvious but nevertheless brilliant point that everything that has ever happened to humanity happened here on this fragile ball of mainly rock and water we call home. This mote of dust zooming through the cosmos at a practically unimaginable speed.