<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR> Carl Sagan:
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.
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. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Billedet viser jorden fotograferet af rumsonden Voyager i 1996, i over 6 mia km's afstand.
Det er den lille næsten usynlige prik man ka' se i solstrålen helt til højre.
Så små er vi i universet [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Carl Sagan var en kendt astronom, som blaa lavede nogle fantastiske tv-serier om universet for lidt over 10 år siden. Han har også inspireret til film som 'Contact'.
Han var en pioner og ekstrem engageret.
[ 25 Maj 2003: Besked ændret af: JEL ]