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This quote is great, but the visual ruins the context of a pale blue dot. From [0], the reference was to the Voyager probe taking an image of the Earth from nea
by biot 12y ago
This quote is great, but the visual ruins the context of a pale blue dot. From [0], the reference was to the Voyager probe taking an image of the Earth from near the edge of the solar system and the Earth appears as a dot less than a pixel in size.
From that perspective, seeing majestic images of the Earth larger than life and in your face is contrary to what Sagan was saying. With the outstanding visuals in this demo, one might get the sense of a majestic world full of opportunity, worthy of building armies to conquer and spill blood for each chunk of land; the very antithesis of his point of how tiny and insignificant our world and the people on it are.
The real pale blue dot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blu...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot