Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth.
Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. Later in the book, Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, challenges readers to pick one of the other planetary dots photographed and featured in the book, and imagine that there are inhabitants on that world who believe that the universe was created solely for themselves. It seemed to me that another picture of the Earth, this one taken from a hundred thousand times farther away, might help in the continuing process of revealing to ourselves our true circumstance and condition. It had been well understood by the scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in a vast encompassing Cosmos, but no one had ever seen it as such. That’s here. Our thoughts and feelings are not fully under our own control.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”, “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. The Voyagers were guaranteed to work only until the Saturn encounter. We were able to photograph not only the Earth, but also five other of the Sun’s nine known planets. That’s us. He believes that NASA's decision to cut back exploration of the Moon after the Apollo program was a short-sighted decision, despite its expense and declining popularity among the American public. It was written in 1994, and therefore one of his last publications, as Sagan tragically died in 1996. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will be in the history books when much else about our time is forgotten. Each image was composed of 640,000 individual picture elements (“pixels”), like the dots in a newspaper wirephoto or a pointillist painting.
Carl Sagan served as the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies.
. ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. “How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot' ”, “The visions we offer our children shape the future. Obediently, it turned its cameras back toward the now-distant planets. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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 significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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