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
Laurs said,
December 7, 2005 at 9:15 am
WOW that’s amazing eh? Ahh man. Flippin class.
Nathan said,
December 16, 2005 at 5:54 pm
hi Candice– it’s Nathan here, Peter’s cousin (i live up north in Yellowknife). i googled vanderklippe on technorati and came up with your blog. have been really enjoying reading thru it. you’re a gifted writer and provocative thinker. will i see you at Christmas?
Candice said,
December 21, 2005 at 6:46 pm
Hey Nathan! Good to hear from you. You most definitely will see me at Christmas!
Talk to you then.
justine said,
January 2, 2006 at 9:30 pm
DON’T YOU HAVE BIG NEWS TO POST ON HERE, CANDICE!?! I MEAN…WE ALL KNOW…BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE CREEPY STALKERS OUT THERE WHO DON’T SEE YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS–:)THEY’RE GOING TO BE REALLY UPSET THAT YOU DIDN’T TELL THEM SOONER
Anonymous said,
January 3, 2006 at 10:42 am
yeah. like me.
well, not the creepy stalker part, but the disappointed-that-i-haven’t-heard-anything-sooner part.
talk, woman.
jo
Anonymous said,
January 7, 2006 at 5:13 pm
nononono… Jo, you are definitely a creepy stalker.
but I kinda like it.
::K::–>