Saturday, November 6, 2010

Pale Blue Dot



From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. 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.

-Carl Sagan

9 comments:

  1. It's amazing how far science can see these days.

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  2. Kind of puts everything in perspective.

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  3. I loved what you wrote...in that really small space, so much has been going on...

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  4. Unbelievable when you think about it. So much going on in the world, how small we are compared to the world makes it look so big, until you see a picture like this

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  5. We have to go to space in an elevator

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