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. 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. "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. "We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. Here's an abridged text of Sagan's speech about the image: This photo of Earth - the "pale blue dot" - is just one frame of a " solar system portrait" that Voyager 1 took at roughly 4 billion miles away from home. It often indicates a user profile.Ī photo of Earth from 4 billion miles away, also known as the "Pale Blue Dot" image.
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