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Pale Blue Dot 2020

Mar 23, 2024
Look again at that point. That's here. That's home. That's us. In it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever existed, lived their lives. The sum of our joy and suffering, thousands of safe religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and gatherer, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and every father. , hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every moral teacher, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a speck of dust suspended in a ray of sunlight.
pale blue dot 2020
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic stage. Let us think of the rivers of blood shed by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become momentary owners of a fraction of a point. Let us think of the infinite cruelties that the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel inflict on the barely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill each other, and how fervent their hatreds! Our postures, our imagined self-importance, the illusion that we have a privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of

pale

light.
pale blue dot 2020

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Our planet is a solitary point in the great cosmic darkness that surrounds it. In our darkness, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from anywhere else to save us from ourselves. Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, that a species can migrate to. Visit, yes, find out, not yet. Whether we like it or not, for the moment the Earth is the place where we position ourselves. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human vanity than this distant image of our little world.
pale blue dot 2020
To me, it underscores our responsibility to treat each other more kindly and to preserve and cherish the

pale

blue

dot, the only home we have ever known.
pale blue dot 2020

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