The Video that Best Summarizes the World and Us

Our Earth; perhaps the friendliest planet we’ve seen in the entire universe. It is a pale blue dot that keeps us small creatures living in it alive, gives them food, air, and water, and which, despite all the research, cannot be found. The home of humanity is a friend whose head we can safely hold under the firmament. Yes, we can make countless tidbits about planet Earth. Every line of it would be true, because if the Earth weren’t so full of life, we wouldn’t have a chance to be alive either. That’s why, even if we don’t say it out loud, we know that every human, every plant, and every animal secretly thanks the Earth.

So how do we look at the most precious thing we have, the Earth? With every garbage we throw on the ground and every poisonous gas we release into nature, we make the world more hostile to ourselves. And let’s not forget that we will not win a war against Earth. Although we see ourselves as very superior beings, Carl Sagan explained to us years ago, through a single image, that this is not actually the case.

Carl Sagan has given us a lot about science and space so far. However, it is what he said about the ‘Pale Blue Dot’, perhaps the thing that impresses us the most, makes us think most deeply. The Pale Blue Dot is the Earth itself. A photograph of Earth was taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 vehicle, which was launched in 1977 and has so far managed to go to the furthest distance as a man-made vehicle in space.

Written and voiced by Carl Sagan for the pale blue dot

“Earth is very interesting from this distant observation point. It may not seem like an attractive place. But for us, the situation is different. Reevaluate that point. It is here. That home. It is us. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you’ve heard of, lived their entire human life on it. All our happiness and sorrows, thousands of selves. safe religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, all hunters and gatherers, all heroes and cowards, all civilization builders and destroyers, all kings and peasants, all young couples in love, all parents, hopeful children, inventors and explorers, all moral teachers, all the corrupt politicians, all the superstars, all the great leaders, all the saints and sinners in the history of our species, lived there in the speck of dust ruthless in the sunlight

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Earth is a very small stage in an enormous cosmic space. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and rulers, that way, in a fraction of only a small spot that were lords of their time in glory and glory. Think of the endless tyranny of the inhabitants of one corner of this tiny pixel against the barely distinguishable inhabitants of another corner, how common was their disagreement, how eager they were in killing another, how fierce their hostility. This pale spot of light was measured by the size of our aphras, our imaginary self-centeredness, our delusion that we occupy a privileged position in the universe. Our planet is just a speck in the majestic cosmic darkness that surrounds it. In our conflict, in all this enormity, no hint of help will come from anywhere else to save us from ourselves.

The world’s only known shelter for life. At least in the near future, our species has nowhere else to migrate. Visit, yes. Settling in, not yet. Like it or not, Earth is the only place we can survive at this time. It was said to be a humble and character-building experience for astronomy. There is probably no better proof of the folly of humanity’s arrogance than this distant picture of our little world. To me, this picture underlines our responsibility to relate more kindly to one another and to preserve and value the “pale blue dot”. The only home we’ve ever known.”