Pale Blue Dot A Vision of the Human Future in Space

one of my favorite is Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot and ...

Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

It became almost the spiritual inspiration for the book, Carl Sagan's book, The Pale Blue Dot.

So it's just Earth, just barely a pixel in the image and it was not in a sea of stars but it's a sea of nothingness.

But that's just because the aperture of a lens, if you set it for the lighting of the Earth then you're not going to see the stars but they're there. It's not like they weren't there.

So, in the Pale Blue Dot, the book, Carl Sagan waxed poetic and philosophical with great elegance on what our place is in space and in the universe in general upon reflecting on this pale blue dot.

In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It's up to us.

Carl Sagan writes an entire book with that title.

It has become synonymous with planetary brotherhood and protection of the environment.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's like the first cosmic meme, pale blue dot.

Carl Sagan writes an entire book with that title.

It has become synonymous with planetary brotherhood and protection of the environment.

So this image led Carl Sagan to write a very famous book called The Pale Blue Dodd and in it he waxes poetic about our presence in space.

He talks about as you stare upon this pale blue dot, barely a pixel in the image. This is Earth, something we're so accustomed to seeing with mountains and valleys and craters and hills and oceans. It's big. It is not even a pixel in this image.

And he says everyone you've ever known, read about, heard about, lived out their lives on that speck and all the wars that are fought over the temporary command of one plot of land versus another, all happened on this speck.

Everyone who contributed to what we call history lived out their lives on that dodd.

It became almost the spiritual inspiration for the book, Carl Sagan's book, The Pale Blue Dot.

So, in the Pale Blue Dot, the book, Carl Sagan waxed poetic and philosophical with great elegance on what our place is in space and in the universe in general upon reflecting on this pale blue dot.

It's iconic. I mean it just really...people really love it.

Carl Sagan writes an entire book with that title.

It has become synonymous with planetary brotherhood and protection of the environment.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's like the first cosmic meme, pale blue dot.

Carl Sagan writes an entire book with that title.

It has become synonymous with planetary brotherhood and protection of the environment.

So this image led Carl Sagan to write a very famous book called The Pale Blue Dodd and in it he waxes poetic about our presence in space.

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.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. 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.