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When the Voyager 1 probe was 3.7 billion miles from Earth, Carl Sagan made a request.

He asked NASA to turn it around to

snap a quick photograph. The result was a faint image of Earth

surrounded by the vastness of space. The late astronomer would then use

this picture to share his own reflections on what it meant and why it

was important for us to capture.

“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.

blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”