Un lugar llamado Tierra

El Voyager 1 recibió la orden de girar y tomar una foto antes de salir del Sistema Solar en 1991, en la que es la imagen más distante de nuestro hogar, a unos 6400 millones de kilómetros.




























La imagen, conocida como "Pale Blue Dot" inspiró un libro con el mismo nombre de Carl Sagan, y la siguiente cita:

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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.

Necesitamos más gente como Carl Sagan en este Mundo.