A Pale Blue Dot

[strmrdr]

http://www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm

 

[Cehrabehra]

That was awesome, touching, profound, humbling... thank you!

 

[wifey2b]

amazing!!

 

[FireGoddess]

I had a postcard at some point of a picture of the earth taken from the moon. It really makes you realize that in the grand scheme of things, the things you worry about are so insignificant. It helps ground me when I stress out about something.

 

[firebirdgold]

Excellent!

 

[justjulia]

Just saw this.
Gulp.
Speechless.

 

[perry]

Carl Sagan was one of the great astronomers of the modern times. Not so much for what he personally discovered - but by how well he could communicate what astronomy did and what the discoveries meant to the people on this world.

I used to have ties to the UW Wisconsin-Madison college astronomy department - and they use pictures that I took in some of their classes to this day (and I was the only non-astronomy person that would get invited to the astronomy department annual picknicks in those days). I have talked with people who directly knew Carl Sagan - and they just lit up when talking about him - about how he inspired their direction in Astronomy and specific research. The affect he had on people - even other professionals in his field was amazing.

The pale blue dot is just one of the many things like this that Carl Sagan did.

Thanks, storm, for recovering it for us.


Perry