Ο Carl Sagan με ένα σκάφος για προσγείωση στο Άρη,
στην Κοιλάδα του Θανάτου στην Καλιφόρνια
Προς τιμήν του Carl Sagan η NASA δημοσίευσε προχτές, ημέρα των γενεθλίων του,
που τελειώνει με την παρακάτω περίφημη παρατήρησή του
που ίσως μας κάνει να σκεφτούμε λίγο τη μικρότητά μας...
Η γη, όπως τη φωτογράφησε ο Voyager 1,
από απόσταση 4 δισεκατομμυρίων μιλίων.
"Look again at 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."
-Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot," 1994
