Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot
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| CARL SAGAN: PALE BLUE DOT “ From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. 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. ” | Bleda modra pika " Poglejte še enkrat to piko. To je tukaj. To je dom. To smo mi. Na njej so vsi, ki jih ljubite, vsi, ki jih poznate, vsi, za katere ste kdajkoli slišali, vsi ljudje, ki so kdaj bili in živeli njihova življenja. Skupek našega veselja in trpljenja, tisoče verskih prepričanj, ideologij in ekonomskih doktrin, vsak lovec in iskalec hrane, vsak junak in strahopetec, vsak ustvarjalec in uničevalec civilizacij, vsak kralj in kmet, vsak zaljubljen parček, vsaka mati in oče, upajoč otrok, vsak izumitelj in raziskovalec, vsak učitelj morale, vsak podkupljiv politik, vsaka filmska zvezda, vsak vrhovni voditelj, vsak svetnik in grešnik v zgodovini naše vrste je živel tam na pikici v sončnem žarku. Zemlja je zelo majhna pika v veliki kozmični areni. Pomislite na reke krvi, prelite zaradi generalov in cesarjev, zaradi slave in zmage, da bi postali trenutni lastniki delčka majhne pikice. Pomislite na neskončne krutosti, ki so jih pretrpeli prebivalci enega dela pikice, ker so se razlikovali od prebivalcev na drugem koncu, kako pogosti so njihovi nesporazumi, kako se zavzemajo, da bi ubili drug drugega, kako goreče je njihovo sovraštvo. Naša samopodoba, naš egoizem, blodnje, da smo v privilegiranem položaju v vesolju, so izzvana z velikostjo te majhne pikice. Naš planet je osamljen drobec v veliki kozmični temi. In v tej naši mračnosti in v vsej prostranosti vesolja ni namiga, da bi prišla pomoč in nas rešila pred nami samimi. Zemlja je edini planet, za katerega do sedaj vemo, da omogoča življenje. Trenutno nikjer drugje ni kraja, kamor bi se naša vrsta lahko preselila. Obiskala, da. Naselila, ne še. Če nam je všeč ali ne, v tem trenutku je Zemlja edino, kar nam preostane. Bilo je rečeno, da astronomija uči ponižnosti in vpliva na značaj človeka. Verjetno ni boljše predstavitve norosti človeške domišljavosti, kot podoba našega malega sveta iz daljave. Zame to poudarja našo odgovornost, da smo bolj prijazni drug do drugega, in da ohranimo in bolj cenimo našo bledo modro piko, edini "dom, ki smo ga kdaj poznali. " |
