There are now four spacecraft which are beyond the orbit of Neptune and Pluto.
Pioneers 10 & 11, Voyagers 1 & 2. Four vehicles of our species plummeting
into the interstellar dark.
Now of all those worlds, we have no indication of life.
For me, that underscores the rarity and preciousness of the Earth and the life upon it.
And you can see it. Looks like more than a dot but it is, in fact, less than a pixel.
You can see that it is slightly blue and this is where we live.
On a blue dot.
On that blue dot, that's where everyone you know
and everyone you ever heard of, and every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.
It's a very small stage in a great cosmic arena.
Just speaking for myself, I think this perspective underscores our
responsibility to preserve and cherish that blue dot, the only home we have.
