Wednesday, September 27, 2006

That "Pale blue dot" again


The Cassini Spacecraft peeks around Saturn to snap this picture of earth. The tiny dot near the middle right of the photo is our little planet. The image inset is a magnification with our moon as a slight elongation in that image. Our vast oceans make the earth's image somewhat blue.. Found here.

Once again I'll let Carl Sagan say it:
"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."

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