Website review: A Pale Blue Dot
Kalamazooian discovered this in Astronomy
•169 reviews since Jul 12, 2007
astronomy, earth, philosophy
•bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.html
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Kalamazooian discovered 10 months ago- Go Carl! Preach my friend!
- ClareAston rated 4 days ago
- The earth as seen from Voyager. Shows just how small and insignificant we are really.
- johntem rated 3 weeks ago
- LOVE IT
- lnimtz rated 3 weeks ago
- This is Earth...just a pale blue dot
- zheisey rated 4 weeks ago
- Pretty amazing
- walkdiggler rated 5 weeks ago
- Kind of puts things into perspective, huh??
- lookfar rated 5 weeks ago
- this is what I keep saying :)
- eggm4n rated 5 weeks ago
- That's here. That's home. That's us.
- bluorchid2 rated 6 weeks ago
- Going now to find the rest of Carl Sagan's speech, as this page only contains an excerpt. Yesterday, I stumbled a similar page; similar in pointing out that our human existence is insignificant. That page presented illustrations from a children's book, "Zoom." The point of my existence is incomprehensible to me when my tiny world is expanded like this.
- dockyard rated 7 weeks ago
- From the page: ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.""
