1 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. 2 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. 3 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:23,000 The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines... 4 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 ...every hunter and forager, every hero and coward... 5 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,000 ...every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant... 6 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 ...every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child... 7 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,000 ...inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician... 8 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000 ...every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species... 9 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 ...lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. 10 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,000 The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 11 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors... 12 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:19,000 ...so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. 13 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel... 14 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,000 ...on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner... 15 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,000 ...how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. 16 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe... 17 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 ...are challenged by this point of pale light. 18 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. 19 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint... 20 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,000 ...that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. 21 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. 22 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. 23 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. 24 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:33,000 It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. 25 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits... 26 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 ...than this distant image of our tiny world. 27 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:52,000 To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another... 28 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:59,000 ...and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. 29 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Text by Carl Sagan: "A pale blue dot", 1994.