Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU).

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      10 days ago

      Now I’m having all the feelings again.

      Every warlord, every king, every tyrannical despot, so many atrocities committed to claim a tiny fraction of a pixel, suspended in dust surrounded by blackness.

      There is nobody coming to save us, we must save ourselves.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah I watch him to calm down. He is up there with Mr Rodgers with people I truly look up to even though I never met them.