PALE BLUE DOT : A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE

Hey there, 

I cannot assure you if your life will change or not but this I can assure you if you really read the whole article alertly (Specially Carl Sagan's Speech) this can be worth it. You might get a wide and deep perspective of what the fuck is wrong with the world. 

What is Pale Blue Dot?

What comes first to your mind  when you hear these words Pale blue dot ?  You might think that it's just some sort of a dot or a point which has a pale blue (light blue) color.
You are almost right it is really a dot that is considered to have light blue color.
And guess what that dot is none other than our own home planet EARTH . By now, You might be confused why I am saying this huge planet of  diameter 12,742 kilometers a dot?


Coming to the point, Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of our home planet Earth taken by Voyager 1 in the year 1990. Voyager 1 is a space probe of NASA's Voyager mission to explore different planets of our solar system and is the only known man made probe to ever exit the solar system.
In 1990 , when Voyager 1 was exiting the solar system , CARL SAGAN a great astrophysicist , author, cosmologist and astronomer of America convinced NASA to click one last photo of our Planet.
AND THE RESULT WAS DEVASTATINGLY THIS .

This Photograph was taken from a record distance of 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion kilometers) .
From that distance our Earth is only seen as tiny blue dot. It took NASA nearly three months to generate this photo. There are 640000 individual pixels that compose each frame, and Earth takes up less than one pixel i.e, 0.12 of a pixel.
This is a huge blow when you look at the photograph. But wait there is some more that can fuck your mind and bring back you to the harsh reality that we are constantly denying .
Read how Carl Sagan expressed his views on this Pale Blue Dot.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest.

But for us, it's different. Look again at 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, ever 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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all

those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become momentary masters of a

fraction of a dot. Think of the endless visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel the scarcely

distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager

they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position

in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great

enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from

elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near

future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the

Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps

no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To

me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and

cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Here watch Carl Sagan's words in his own voice,

Man Damn! How can these words be so immensely depressing and liberating at the same time .

Admit it or not, these are the most wisest and most profound words in the history of Mankind.
This photograph is just taken from 6 billion kilometers,  how vast the universe is . 

The observable universe is about 93 billion light years 

That's approximately is 8800000000000000000000000 kms and still expanding.Imagine yourselves from the edge of the universe.
Even our galaxy is a dot in contrast to the universe.

But this world is so blind to see the bigger picture . It drives me crazy that people have no clue about anything and living their lives in vain.

WE CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE HOW SMALL WE ARE AND HOW SMALL OUR IMAGININGS ARE.

IGNORANCE UNFORTUNATELY IS BLISS .

There is another quote by Carl Sagan that goes :

"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. "

Truth is we all are just decaying matter searching something we don't even know.

Can't we keep our ego, arrogance, pride, and all our self made  importance aside . And do something that is valuable and worth our lives and of course for the mankind.

I can write on this my entire life but that's enough for showing the bitter truth. 

THANK YOU