Sunday, November 10, 2013

GAIA - "The Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan


Pale blue dot image with a wider field of view to show more background
"Sagan pointed out that "all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel," shown here inside a blue circle, "which is our only home" (speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994).

I love Upworthy for when I need an inspiring Reality Check.  This morning they didn't let me down with the voice of Carl Sagan, reminding us of where we really are.  Awesome! True!

ps:  Many don't know that Biologist and Evolutionist Lynn Margulis, who collaborated with James Lovelock to create the Gaia Theory, was married to Carl Sagan.

http://www.upworthy.com/the-single-most-mind-altering-photograph-humanity-has-ever-taken?c=ufb1

1 comment:

Trish and Rob MacGregor said...

Didn't realize who Sagan was married to. Wow.