Monday, February 22, 2010

"The pale blue dot"

"[A] mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam."

Such an amazing video. Carl Sagan was a wise man. A demonstration of our insignificance in time and space could scare the weak into passivity and fatalism and despair at the pointlessness of it all; it takes courage and wisdom to generate a moral vision of compassion and connectedness from that insight.

(h/t: sszz)

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