Our Name - Pale Blue Dot
Image: 14 February 1990. Voyager 1's view back at Earth as it continued its journey into interstellar space. " There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known ." - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot , 1994 I first came across this quote in some science class or another while a biology major at UC Santa Barbara and it has stuck with me ever since. It reminds me that what seems endless can actually be just a tiny "blip" when seen from a different perspective. It doesn't seem to be a particularly common quote and often warrants an explanation, but it's referenced often enough in my own thoughts that it felt like an appropriate name for this journey we are about to start. We are embarking on our very own tour of this blue dot, which feels thri