The “Pale Blue Dot” — the Voyager‘s VIEW
“Everyone you love, everyone you know,
everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was… 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” lived out
their lives on this pale blue dot. And every political conflict, every war
we’ve ever fought, we have waged over a fraction of this grainy pixel barely
perceptible against the cosmic backdrop of endless lonesome space.
“Everyone you love, everyone you know,
everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was… 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” lived out
their lives on this pale blue dot. And every political conflict, every war
we’ve ever fought, we have waged over a fraction of this grainy pixel barely
perceptible against the cosmic backdrop of endless lonesome space.