the Pale Blue Dot that is Home
So this here picture is a picture of earth.
Can’t find it? Thos two stripes – those are sunbeams.
In the lighter sun beam there is a tiny little speck a little more than midway down.
That is earth.
This is a picture taken by Voyager I from 3.7 billion miles away.
Makes the idea of God holding the stars in the sky seem a little more real, doesn’t it?
Can’t find it? Thos two stripes – those are sunbeams.
In the lighter sun beam there is a tiny little speck a little more than midway down.
That is earth.
This is a picture taken by Voyager I from 3.7 billion miles away.
Makes the idea of God holding the stars in the sky seem a little more real, doesn’t it?
“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 w ho 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…
…There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot
