In September of the 1977th year of the lord .. NASA launched Voyager 1 to look around in the universe. Well .. actually they sent it to take a looksie at the Jupiter.. and thereafter directed it to carry on ... It carried on .. somewhere in feb of 1990 ..it reached the edge of our solar system .. while it was there .. Carl Sagan asked NASA to direct the Voyager to turn its cameras back to the solar system and photograph earth...thats 6,000,000,000 kilometers... and thats just the edge of the solar system .. can ya think about the the rest of the universe .. its sheer size .. anyways ... This is what the earth looked like ....
That encircled Pale Blue Dot ... That size is one pixel ..teeny weeny earth .. .. our place in the scheme of things .... so said Carl Sagan ...read carefully .. look at that dot ....
Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you ever loved, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives (includes all Character walas, culture freaks and moral police). 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 a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, 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. 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.
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. ( ..in the meanwhile you can carry on meditating and being one with the Universe v.. ha)
PS : this is a famous speech by Carl Sagan ..and an excerpt from his book .. Pale Blue Dot ... if you havent of him .. not to worry .. he hasnt heard of you either .......... and unlikely to hear from you .. he is dead .... he hass left a written message on Mars..." Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.".. ..
PPS: men are from mars .. come September
PPPS:. that thing in the bracket .. that is not attibuted to Sagan ...
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