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Pale Blue Dot - GMDino - 02-14-2020 Today (2/14/20) is the 30th anniversary of the Voyager I photo made famous by Carl Sagan in the book of the same name. As an admitted space geek when I was younger (I read this and Cosmos multiple times too) I thought I'd put my reflection on it here as it speaks to our "differences". ![]() Today is Valentine's Day. And while many of us celebrate our devotion and emotions for that one special person in our lives let us also use this occasion to mark the 30th anniversary of the famous "Pale Blue Dot" photo of the Earth and remember that we are nothing in the scope of space and we should also have devotion and emotions for each and every other human being who shares this speck with us no matter their color, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation or any other reason. Our "big" differences and nothing compared to where we are in the Universe. We are ALL in this together, for just a little while, on just a little piece of dirt in the middle of nowhere. Be good to each other. Today and everyday. ![]() Video of Carl Sagan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g Sagan's words from the book of the same name: Quote:"Look again at 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. RE: Pale Blue Dot - Dill - 02-14-2020 (02-14-2020, 11:00 AM)GMDino Wrote: Today (2/14/20) is the 30th anniversary of the Voyager I photo made famous by Carl Sagan in the book of the same name. I remember my parents had a copy of the Cosmos. Don't know what happened to it. Disagree with your assessment of our differences though. Trump presidency is a COSMIC disaster. |