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http://www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm The Pale Blue Dot: a picture of Earth, taken from a very long way away, inspires some fine words from Carl Sagan about how insignificant we all are, or something. 21:06

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… , the astronomer, gave at Cornell University on October 13, 1994. The here he was referring to was a minuscule blue dot, in a photo that had been taken by the interstellar space probe Voyager 1, 13 years after it was launched into space."Having completed its primary mission, Voyager at that time was on its way out of the Solar System, on a trajectory of approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the Solar System. Ground Control issued commands for the distant space craft to turn(www.bigskyastroclub.org) Today, the earth celebrates Pangea Day. It is the first ever event of its kind. Through a great feat of organization, some of our major cities, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Cairo, Mumbai, London and others, will broadcast a …

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… 13, 1994, the famous astronomer Carl Sagan was delivering a public lecture at his own university of Cornell. During that lecture, he presented a photo taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance.read more …

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… s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.” This was posted about 100 days ago, but I thought it deserved reposting.read more …

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… our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. -Carl Sagan (The picture of “that pale blue dot” that he is talking about can be seenhere.) It’s quite humbling, but also a bit depressing at the same time. One of the reasons I was actually interested in Astronomy in school was because it really forced you to think about things in a different way. Among other things, it made me realize …

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