Dot — Little Blue

Voyager 1 took that photo on February 14, 1990. A Valentine from space. A love letter we didn’t know we needed.

Every general who ever thundered a charge. Every king, queen, dictator, and president. Every child who scraped a knee. Every first kiss. Every last breath. Every prayer whispered in a foxhole or a cathedral. Every invention, every mistake, every poem, every genocide, every act of grace. Little Blue Dot

So what do we do with this? It’s easy to spiral into nihilism: Nothing matters, we’re dust. But Sagan offered a different conclusion: If nothing matters on a cosmic scale, then everything matters here. Voyager 1 took that photo on February 14, 1990