Anyone here familiar with Carl Sagan's work? I'm not terribly well-versed in Sagan's writing and science myself, but I'd like to share a quote with you all, one that resonates deeply with me. I think LP's recent album actually hits on it quite well, and it's something to keep in mind with all the chaos around us in current events. It starts with this image of our home, planet Earth, seen from almost 4 billion miles away: Discuss this humbling realization.
Kind of a boring quote actually. There's much better ones out there that I wish I could find. I think Sagan has a lot of good ones, though.
I dunno, it speaks to me. Think of how insignificant all our lives are in comparison to what we're looking at here.
Yeah. I guess I've been thinking about it for such a long time that simple quotes like these don't move me anymore. You can really get lost in thought when you dive into this kind of awesome shit.
I think what really makes it for me is the call to action. Like it or not, there's only one Earth, and no habitable planets that our current technology would allow us to travel to, so we better take damn good care of the planet we got.
Exactly. Do you see another blue dot? What we have is incredibly rare, so start fucking looking after it people.
Listen to The album The Black Swan by Story Of The Year. They wrote a record around the concept... There is even a pale blue dot interlude...