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This makes me think of Voyager 1's pale blue dot photograph. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/
by ammon 9y ago
This makes me think of Voyager 1's pale blue dot photograph. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blu...
I find the parallel awesome.
- mwest 9y agoI did wonder if it was a Sagan reference: "... I was rewarded with this particular picture of a small, pale blue dot.” Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoImplying a pale, yellowish white dot depicting the Sun is next. (Or a pale red dot of a Tesla, more likely, given that negatives are probably already being post processed. You have to imagine that astronomy as a discipline took the last few nights off from science.)