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    35 Years of The Pale Blue Dot and Carl Sagan's immortal words: “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… on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
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    35 Years of The Pale Blue Dot and Carl Sagan’s immortal words: “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… on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”


    35 Years of The Pale Blue Dot and Carl Sagan’s immortal words: “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… on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

    https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-pale-blue-dot

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    1. ChiefLeef22 on

      Cannot be overstated just how much we all need a Carl Sagan in the world today. So much of what he said has come to pass, some fortunately but a lot of it unfortunately. Even beyond being a voice of reason amongst all this mess, I would’ve just loved to hear what his opinions on our current scientific findings would be. Fuck man I miss him…

    3. Kinkhoest on

      I have this picture on the wall with the quote on it. They are so powerful. I cannot agree more with OP.

    5. senhordelicio on

      I cried so much the first time I watched it. And I still feel tears in my eyes every time I see it posted somewhere.

    6. BaroneRaybert on

      Still gives me goosebumps – Carl, Anthony Bourdain and Tolkien were my guides to so many wonders.

    7. JayUSArmy on

      A pale blue dot. If all you’re measuring is atoms or reflected photons, then yes… it doesn’t stand out much. But if you were measuring life.. it would blaze in the darkness like a million stars. If you measured intelligence and capacity to understand the universe, then it would shine like a billion billion supernovas in the deepest depths of darkness.

    8. Willsgb on

      Think of the rivers of blood,
      Spilled by all those generals and emperors
      So that they could become the momentary masters
      Of a fraction
      Of a dot

      Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner.

      How frequent their misunderstandings
      How eager they are to kill one another
      How fervent their hatreds.

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