Website review: A Pale Blue Dot
Kalamazooian discovered this in Astronomy
•171 reviews since Jul 12, 2007
astronomy, earth, philosophy
•bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.html
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Nerd-Panda rated 12 months ago- You Are Here. FEEL IMPORTANT?
- j4m3sb0nd rated 12 months ago
- "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."
- seejackrun rated 12 months ago
- A very moving thought... A very humbling picture.
- NeoKaneida rated 12 months ago
- i thought it was another one of those dorky astronomy pages... then i read what carl sagan said about the photo and it moved me. and what's weird was as i was reading his statement, "sympathy for the devil" started playing. its still giving me the chills right now...
- Surp rated 12 months ago
- Very humbling photo and profound words from Carl Sagan!!!
- guglone rated 12 months ago
- when shall we eventually learn & become adults ??
- DominickT rated 12 months ago
- all that your hand finds to do,do with your very Power for there is no knowledge,no devising,nor wisdom...in Sheol, The place that you are going...Ecclesiastes 9;5 10
- flyinhigh86 rated 12 months ago
"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."
- Tyrsredritehand rated 12 months ago
- A tiny Earth, in the vastness of space.
