The Pale Blue Dot is the most distant Image taken of the Earth from Voyager 1 in 1990. The image was taken as a request by Carl Sagan, Voyager rotates its cameras towards the location of Earth and snapped the photo at approximately 6 billion km from our home, the pale blue dot.The Earth can be seen as the fraction of the size of a pixel in the brown streak on the right side of the photo. The following is a set of quotes from Carl Sagans book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, 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. 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, and underscores our responsibility and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:55:06 +0000
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