That's us.
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.
- Carl Sagan, 1934-1996
The Earth as imaged from the Voyager 1
spacecraft as it exited the solar system in 1990.
Earth is nearly 4 billion
miles away in this image.
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