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<title>A Pale Blue Dot</title>
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<h1>A Pale Blue Dot</h1>
<p>The excerpt from Sagan's book 'Pale Blue Dot' is a reaction to
this image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager I on February
14, 1990.</p>
<p>As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the
fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one
last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion
kilometers (4 billion miles) away when it captured this portrait of
our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result
of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny
point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.</p>
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<p>I present to you, the Pale Blue Dot that is the Earth:</p>
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<p>"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of
any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994</p>
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