A few minutes ago, Orion successfully passed behind the moon and sent us a picture of Earth. Fantastic!
Blue Dot
A few minutes ago, Orion successfully passed behind the moon and sent us a picture of Earth. Fantastic!
One of my favorite quote ever. So true. So crazy when you think about it.
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again 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 (from his book, a pale blue dot, 1994)
While sadly overshadowed by the question of Twitter checkmarks, it’s certainly a great and important moment!