A Pale Blue Dot, A Renewed Perspective in 3.75 Minutes

In 1900, at the request of Carl Sagan, NASA turned the Voyager 1  camera around and took a photograph of Earth, a tiny dot in the in the vastness of space

Carl called it the Pale Blue Dot and created a video with this wonderfully eloquent description  “everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives” has lived on this pale blue dot; “every saint and sinner in the history of our species [has] lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Space photographs moved Sagan to write that “Earth is the only world known so far to harbour 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.”

Watch Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot video and be inspired……..

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