A photo of "us" taken 25 years ago today (Feb 14)

[shireen]

This image was taken 25 years ago today by Voyager 1.

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, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space



More at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A wonderful, WONDERFUL quote!

lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Thank you, Carl Sagan...

[PoliticAverse]

2. Is that you waving?... n/t

[shireen]

3. In Carl Sagan's words, a lovely video.

[hedda_foil]

5. Oh my, Shireen. How powerful. His voice, his poetic imagery against those current images.

Now I think I know why Neal DeGrass Thyson's Cosmos fell flat. Sagan had the gift of poetry.

I wandered over to YouTube to share this on Facebook and found an exquisite video of Sagan, near the end, sharing his thoughts on science and belief.

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=J1cNaFG1VII

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Thank you...

This message… It's something that should be heard/seen/felt religiously… The only religion I now profess to practice.

[2banon]

12. just posted this on my fb. THANKS!

[Aristus]

4. I can see my house from here!

This photo still astonishes. I read Sagan's book 'The Pale Blue Dot' when it was first published. That tiny mote of dust is a better place for Sagan's having lived there...

[2banon]

6. what dot? I'm looking really hard and don't see it.

I do need new prescriptions but gosh.. I should see something.. is this like a joke I'm not getting?

[chrisa]

7. You can see it in the middle of the right-most color line of the photo (the pinkish one).

There's a small white dot, which is earth.

[2banon]

10. Thanks I can see it now, but that WAS challenging. Guess I'd better upgrade on my readers..

probably need 4.0's now LOL!

[shireen]

8. look at the right-most almost vertical feature

Go down about half-way, there is a white dot there.

[2banon]

11. Thanks! finally found it with your help!

[tooeyeten]

13. Perspective, for real. nt

[PCIntern]

14. V-Ger talking to the Carbon-unit…nt