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The Pale Blue Dot by AccidentalGenius: 9:15pm On Jan 01, 2017 |
On Feb. 14, 1990, famed scientist
Carl Sagan gave us an incredible
perspective on our home planet that
had never been seen before.
As NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft was
about to leave our Solar System in
1989, Sagan, who was a member of
the mission's imaging team, pleaded
with officials to turn the camera
around to take one last look back at
Earth before the spaceship left our
solar system.
The resulting image, with the Earth
as a speck less than 0.12 pixels in
size, became known as "the pale blue
dot."
Astronauts had already taken plenty
of beautiful photos of our planet at
that point, and this grainy, low-
resolution snapshot was not one of
them.
But instead of beauty, this one-of-a-
kind picture showed the
immeasurable vastness of space, and
our undeniably-small place within it.
"Everyone you love, everyone you
know, everyone you ever heard of,
every human being who ever was,
lived out their lives," Sagan later
wrote. "On a mote of dust suspended
in a sunbeam."
"I was struck by how special Earth
was, as I saw it shining in a ray of
sunlight," said Candy Hansen, a
planetary scientist at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory who worked
on the Voyager imaging team. "It also
made me think about how vulnerable
our tiny planet is."
Voyager 1 had already finished its
primary mission of studying Jupiter
and Saturn towards the end of 1980,
but its mission was extended - and
continues to this day - so it could
study the far reaches of interstellar
space.
First launched in 1977, the robotic
spacecraft had already captured
incredible images of planets within
the Solar System, and eventually,
researchers needed to disable its
camera so it would have the power it
needed to keep transmitting back to
NASA once it left.
The striking photograph almost never
happened. Early on in Voyager's
mission, Sagan had tried to get the
look back at Earth, but others on the
team worried that the Sun would end
up frying the camera. But eventually,
with the mission winding down,
Sagan finally got his wish - a last
minute Valentine's Day gift in 1990.
"You know, I still get chills down my
back," NASA researcher Candice
Hansen-Koharcheck told NPR.
"Because here was our planet, bathed
in this ray of light, and it just looked
incredibly special."
Voyager 1 took a series of "family
portraits" from nearly 4 billion miles
away, before its camera was turned
off for good. The spacecraft is now
the most-distant human-made object
in space at roughly 12 billion miles
away, and it takes about 17 hours for
it to transmit data back to Earth.
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Re: The Pale Blue Dot by AccidentalGenius: 9:17pm On Jan 01, 2017 |
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 3 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: The Pale Blue Dot by Nobody: 11:04pm On Jan 01, 2017 |
Are you trying to make us feel less special? |
Re: The Pale Blue Dot by Nobody: 3:30am On Jan 02, 2017 |
Vanceastro:We are nothing when faced with the vastness of the universe 1 Like
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Re: The Pale Blue Dot by Nobody: 6:01am On Jan 02, 2017 |
We are not important? Is that what you want to tell yourself? Wait till a 100 years... |
Re: The Pale Blue Dot by AccidentalGenius: 2:19pm On Jan 02, 2017 |
Vanceastro: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 1 Like |
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