Pale Blue Dot

This is a photograph called The Pale Blue Dot taken by Voyager I as it was leaving the Solar System in 1990, and the tiny dot inside the orange line is Earth 3,781,782,502 miles away. Christ, and here I am squinting at the menu behind the counter at McDonalds to see how much a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese deep-fried in pork dicks   Premium Asian Fruit salad is.

Carl Sagan:

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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, every 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 the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on 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.

On a side note if you look close at the green line you can see the ball Harold Ray Childs hit off my buddy Mike in summer league one year heh heh heh