The Pale Blue Dot Earth’s Coolest Selfie
The Conversation looked at the long distance photos of the Earth taken from beyond the planet during our history of space exploration. It’s the ultimate selfie. And unlike other selfies, these don’t come across as self-promoting and annoying.
“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.”
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