Sagan would later write about the
photograph - and the deeper meaning
he gleaned from it - in his 1994 book,
"Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the
Human Future in Space."
Here's what he wrote:
"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.
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."
credit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Are you trying to make us feel less special?

Vanceastro:
Are you trying to make us feel less special?

We are nothing when faced with the vastness of the universe

We are not important? Is that what you want to tell yourself? Wait till a 100 years...

Vanceastro:
We are not important? Is that what you want to tell yourself? Wait till a 100 years...

you are not important. we are not important. the animals around us are as important as you think u are. you are purely accidental. a sperm that got fertilised ahead of others. ego. mans greatest misery is his ego