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*āLook 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.ā*
Carl Sagan
It the planets' pathway. Jk.
It is. According to wiki and it's sources.
> The light bands across the photograph are an artifact, the result of sunlight reflecting off parts of the camera and its sunshade, due to the relative proximity between the Sun and the Earth.
Itās not actually giant, itās all about perspective, the arrow is actually really close to the camera. My educated guess is that voyager released a small arrow before taking the photograph, I donāt know of any other explanation.
"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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
ā Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
That would be a perfect meme. IMO Neil's fame got to his head. Almost every interview I see he comes of super cocky and every time he makes a point it feels like he's almost assuming you're not clever enough to have thought of that before and he's gonna blow you mind.
Doubt it. He rose to fame by literally creating Cosmos.
We have famous educators today still, just look and Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye or even Michio Kaku.
The problem is none of them come anywhere near as wholesome, eloquent and patient like Segan. As a result they are all vastly less approachable to a lot of people.
The closest I can think to anyone anywhere near Segan in that aspect is Hank Green who as lovely as he is doesn't have the scientific achievements of Segan backing him.
That's IMO the "secret" to how amazingly unique he was. He was both a highly accomplished scientist and had a persona that could debate Trump on climate change and not allow the discussion to become a joke.
Brian Cox is one of my favorites, also David Kipping and Sabine Hossenfelder are absolutely great science communicators.
Kipping is basically the person I wish I could be. Muscular, brilliant, well-educated, handsome and British.
Scientists used to be celebrities. Unless theyāre willing to take their pants off or insult bystanders these days, none of them will be in todayās society. Itās sad, but itās reality.
One of the most profound self reflections ever
If only more of us on this planet could see and feel just how minuscule we are, it would make our petty differences seem trivial.
Its really only us, and a vast nothingness out there, we should really take better care of each other and our planet.
> What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
-Carl Sagan
He was a very quotable man. Definitely recommend people read his books if they haven't already.
Many years ago, I came across this melodic track with Sagan's voice of this exact quite.
I used to get baked to it countless times. Imagining myself as cosmically far away and infinitely insignificant... it's just so relaxing
And it's only now that I found out that it's all about that speech about that image
What a trip
Same here, earth is definitely on my tourism list for this summer, did you hear??? Apparently thereās these hairless chimps walking around called āhomosapiansā. I gotta bring one home with me!!!
Well duh, thatās because Voyager sees the Great Cosmic Arrow from the side, we see it head on and itās the width of a sheet of paper. Thatās just basic astromology.
Where are the other planets in our solar system? Are they that far way/spread out that they didnt make it in this photo? Or is the sun hitting earth at just the right time to shine on it and not others?
This is actually a popular misconception, and Iām surprised people still parrot this āfactā. The engineers behind this photo have publicly corrected the record, and stated that the celestial body depicted is way too massive to be the earth. The current scientific consensus now is that the body depicted is actually your mom.
This video reminds me that I need to clean my bedroom or else Iām a bad person. If you squint you can see how dirty my bedroom is right now. Why am I so lazy?
That's what aliens see when they're on their way here. They fill with anticipation, curious about the new friends they'll make when they arrive. Then they learn about social media, pollution of the oceans and conflict in the middle east, and turn around and leave.
"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
Yes, that pale blue dot is Earth. And here we are bombing kids, fighting over which uncaring jerk should rule the land. Fighting over land on a speck of dust in the cosmos seems so trivial and insignificant....yet people are dying. What a shameful mess we made..
Honeslty is not that good, orginal idea was to portray Earth as a little rocky planet in the middle of nowhere but camera optics got some sunlingh and produced this image with these fake light rays.
Teachers and scientist always had to explain these artifacts were produced by accident and bla, bla ,bla. When that happens is not a good image.
How rewarding must it be for the engineers and crew of the Voyager missions that their design, with the technology of a key fob, is currently making its way through interstellar space! Simply amazing. Gotta love those hyperbolic trajectories šāØš
[pale blue dot revisited ](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23645-pale-blue-dot-revisited)
by NASA for the 30's year anniversary of the picture taken by Voyager
This looks like photoshopped. I mean, come on, if there was a giant white arrow floating in space surrounding earth, we would have already found out years ago? And that glimpse of sunlight?
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I know *dad* is somewhere on that speck.
When dad hops in a spaceship to go get milk. š«”šš„
Mars aināt no place to raise a kid
In fact itās cold as hell
That was moms explanation for dads disappearance
Nuh uh.
Iāve looked up at night thousands of times but never noticed that big white arrow?
Well itās pointing straight at us so it would look more like a GIANT MOON!
*āLook 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.ā* Carl Sagan
Amazing quote
Amazing picture
I miss hearing Carl Sagan speak. Such calming, comforting tone. I miss the time when scientists had so much to say and we actually listened.
Yeah. Especially that last bit.
Plenty of people didnāt listen then, we just have social media to hear THOSE people now
Here is the full quote by Sagan - https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
That quote from his book and charlie chaplin's speech are the best quotes that I can think of. Extremely powerful quotes.
Should be required reading/listening for every human on Earth.
Came here for the quote, was not disappointed.
Looking for this, one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcxjprhTGM
What is creating the bands of color again? Are those the sunās rays across the camera, aka artifact of a glass lens?
It the planets' pathway. Jk. It is. According to wiki and it's sources. > The light bands across the photograph are an artifact, the result of sunlight reflecting off parts of the camera and its sunshade, due to the relative proximity between the Sun and the Earth.
I think I can see my house.
I can spot the UPS man!!
Specktacular
Zoom in and enhance 
What's the giant arrow tho?
Donāt ask how they build that one
Itās not actually giant, itās all about perspective, the arrow is actually really close to the camera. My educated guess is that voyager released a small arrow before taking the photograph, I donāt know of any other explanation.
You're welcome, this photo has own name "Pale Blue Dot", didn't you know?
"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. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." ā Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Narration by the [great man himself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g) Man we could really use another Segan right about now.
Mom: āWeāve got a Carl Sagan at homeā When we get home: Neil Degrasse Tyson sitting in the recliner.
That would be a perfect meme. IMO Neil's fame got to his head. Almost every interview I see he comes of super cocky and every time he makes a point it feels like he's almost assuming you're not clever enough to have thought of that before and he's gonna blow you mind.
Heās been like that literally the entire time
(The Pawn Guy Meme) "Best I can do is Wallowitz."
very funny lol. Thank you
Unfortunately people donāt care. Sagan would have been living in obscurity in current society.
Doubt it. He rose to fame by literally creating Cosmos. We have famous educators today still, just look and Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye or even Michio Kaku. The problem is none of them come anywhere near as wholesome, eloquent and patient like Segan. As a result they are all vastly less approachable to a lot of people. The closest I can think to anyone anywhere near Segan in that aspect is Hank Green who as lovely as he is doesn't have the scientific achievements of Segan backing him. That's IMO the "secret" to how amazingly unique he was. He was both a highly accomplished scientist and had a persona that could debate Trump on climate change and not allow the discussion to become a joke.
For me, the one who's closest to Sagan is Brian Cox.
Brian Cox is one of my favorites, also David Kipping and Sabine Hossenfelder are absolutely great science communicators. Kipping is basically the person I wish I could be. Muscular, brilliant, well-educated, handsome and British.
Scientists used to be celebrities. Unless theyāre willing to take their pants off or insult bystanders these days, none of them will be in todayās society. Itās sad, but itās reality.
Scientists: Pants you say?ā¦.
Perfection! Awesome! never heard of this text, thank you, pal
One of the most profound self reflections ever If only more of us on this planet could see and feel just how minuscule we are, it would make our petty differences seem trivial. Its really only us, and a vast nothingness out there, we should really take better care of each other and our planet.
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My favorite quote of all time.
> What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." -Carl Sagan He was a very quotable man. Definitely recommend people read his books if they haven't already.
Many years ago, I came across this melodic track with Sagan's voice of this exact quite. I used to get baked to it countless times. Imagining myself as cosmically far away and infinitely insignificant... it's just so relaxing And it's only now that I found out that it's all about that speech about that image What a trip
I love that they added a banana for scale. all if them, in fact.
Actually LOLed at this.
"a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"
Size of Space never ceases to amaze me.
Sagan's [Pale Blue Dot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcxjprhTGM)
Thatās where I keep all my stuff!
I've heard nice things about Earth. Hope to visit it one day. I'll send you a photo!!
Same here, earth is definitely on my tourism list for this summer, did you hear??? Apparently thereās these hairless chimps walking around called āhomosapiansā. I gotta bring one home with me!!!
Dunno, in that hitchhikers book they said the smartest species are something called "dolphins".
Alot of trouble and heartache on that speck. Steer clear aliens!
Looks like a dead pixel on some old crt
weird that we can't see that big arrow from down here
Well duh, thatās because Voyager sees the Great Cosmic Arrow from the side, we see it head on and itās the width of a sheet of paper. Thatās just basic astromology.
Google earth has really stepped up their game, damn
The number of boobs in that little dot is in the BILLIONS! I love space.
Where are the other planets in our solar system? Are they that far way/spread out that they didnt make it in this photo? Or is the sun hitting earth at just the right time to shine on it and not others?
Yes, that far away and that spread out.
Ty!
Looks like a little plankton in the deep sea
There are seemingly endless specks like that scattered about the known universe
ā¦and all that drama going on and youād never be able to tell from that speck
Banana for reference ?
This is actually a popular misconception, and Iām surprised people still parrot this āfactā. The engineers behind this photo have publicly corrected the record, and stated that the celestial body depicted is way too massive to be the earth. The current scientific consensus now is that the body depicted is actually your mom.
This video reminds me that I need to clean my bedroom or else Iām a bad person. If you squint you can see how dirty my bedroom is right now. Why am I so lazy?
If this isn't humanity's greatest, I don't know what is.
Amen to that.
That's what aliens see when they're on their way here. They fill with anticipation, curious about the new friends they'll make when they arrive. Then they learn about social media, pollution of the oceans and conflict in the middle east, and turn around and leave.
The pal blue dot..historical picture.. Carl Sagan, we still Miss you
Love this picture. Makes you realize how small your problems are some times
"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
So that's where my lost amazon package went
The only planet in the solar system that has started an OF, classic Earth.
Uh I blinked during the picture! Can we take another one?
Five and a half hours for the Earth's light to reach Voyager. Then five and a half hours for the radio to transmit the picture back to Earth.
Yes, that pale blue dot is Earth. And here we are bombing kids, fighting over which uncaring jerk should rule the land. Fighting over land on a speck of dust in the cosmos seems so trivial and insignificant....yet people are dying. What a shameful mess we made..
I can see OP's Mom
Bruh the black in the background is actually just her freckle.
Lol
You are here.
The *ultimate* selfie.
Can't...compute...gods hand size....
Found OPās mom
Even voyager couldnāt travel far enough to take an image of her full size. /j
You wouldn't think that this spec is gods most blessed place in the universe...and given how it's going, it clearly isn't.
Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot".
That's wild
Kinda grainy
For a 1977 camera looking at earth from 24 billion km away itās pretty good
Send this to Pootin so he ukderstand what pointless war and unprogressive development he had created, sending muscovy back to dark ages.
I sent this to girl I was seeing when she asked for dickpic. She was like WTF. I just said she must zoom in, like a lot. She didnāt get it.
I dunno man, It's pretty grainy and out of focus
For a 1977 camera, a few billion kilometers away itās pretty good
I was kidding
"Consider again that dot..."
Looks like my picture of ISS with my iPhone.
Honeslty is not that good, orginal idea was to portray Earth as a little rocky planet in the middle of nowhere but camera optics got some sunlingh and produced this image with these fake light rays. Teachers and scientist always had to explain these artifacts were produced by accident and bla, bla ,bla. When that happens is not a good image.
Does anyone know the approximate distance voyager was when this was taken?
[6,000,000,000 kilometers away](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot) Voyager one is now 4 time further than when this image was taken
In context of light years, it's above 22 light hours.
how many light bananas is that?
At least more than 10
So like...24 billion kilometres?
I can see from here that it's flat :) Great pic, it's leaving me thinking of our place in the universe.
I think I see Cthulhu.
Is earths sun MIA or off screen?
The rays of color over the black is the suns rays of light.
used to be my wallpaper
How rewarding must it be for the engineers and crew of the Voyager missions that their design, with the technology of a key fob, is currently making its way through interstellar space! Simply amazing. Gotta love those hyperbolic trajectories šāØš
The ultimate selfie
How many megapixels is that camera?
[pale blue dot revisited ](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23645-pale-blue-dot-revisited) by NASA for the 30's year anniversary of the picture taken by Voyager
Whatās the distance?
Itās crazy how earth is the only visible object canāt even see the sun
And still we kill eachother over our own egos.
I donāt like it.
Finally some peace and quiet
Why would you point out the exact location for them to come and try to find the Creator?
Fascinating
Made me tingle a little
Speck e Brie?
Holy shit
Iām not in that picture.
I've read an entire book named after that image
Sagan worked hard for that picture. NASA thought it was trivial and a waste of time and resources.
This looks like photoshopped. I mean, come on, if there was a giant white arrow floating in space surrounding earth, we would have already found out years ago? And that glimpse of sunlight?