Earth Day: The Pale Blue Dot

[athelind]

Unca Carl said it so well, there's very little I can add.

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"Look again at that dot.
That's here. That's home. That's us."

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[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

I'll still never forget when I first discovered, quite by accident, the works of Carl Sagan. It was in my high school library, when I was just looking for random stuff on astronomy to hold my interest and kill some time.

I ended up purchasing many of those same books that I'd already read time and again from borrowing them over and over from that library (Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot certainly the most significant among them).

When I think of people who I consider my heroes, I usually have to stop and think for a bit to come up with a list, but the one name that comes to mind immediately is always Carl Sagan.