Carl sagan tiny blue dot5/14/2023 ![]() On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Here is an excerpt from Carl Sagan’s memorable text: This sense of awe only became apparent with space exploration, when we were first able to see images of Earth from space -Earth as seen from outside our collective body. ![]() ![]() Wonder arises from the realization that we live in a “pale blue dot”, seemingly enormous to us but tiny and insignificant to the Universe. After all, our planet is but a particle of blue dust floating around a sun that is one of a thousand million stars in our galaxy, which in turn is barely a twinkle in the fathomless Universe.Īdam Winnik has animated Carl Sagan’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” monologue to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1, a space probe which travels the outer regions of our solar system carrying on board a “golden record” with pictures and sounds of Earth compiled by Sagan himself. ![]() The immensity of the cosmos and the improbability of human evolution render our lives marvelous. Few people in the history of mankind have been as successful as Carl Sagan in communicating a sense of wonder at existence. ![]()
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