///這張64億公里外的地球自拍照，在選舉&公投前夕看特別有感///
“請看一眼照片上的小藍點。就在這裡。這就是家園。這就是我們。在這個小點上，有每一個你愛的人，每一個你認識的人，每一個你聽說過的人，無論他是誰，都曾經在此生活過。我們所有的快樂和掙扎，數以千萬人確信的宗教信仰、思想體系觀念意識，以及經濟學原理，每一個獵人或征服者，每一位勇士或是懦夫，每一個文明的締造者或摧毀者，每一位君王或農夫，每一對陷入愛河的年輕伴侶，每一位為人父母者，所有充滿希望的小孩，發明家或探險者，每一位靈魂導師，每一個腐敗的政客，每一個所謂的『超級巨星』，每一個所謂的『偉大領袖』，每一位我們人類史上的聖人或是罪人……我們的一切一切，全部都存在於這樣一粒懸浮在一束陽光中的塵埃上。
地球，只是浩瀚的宇宙劇場裡一個極小的舞台。曾任由那些帝王將相殺戮得血流成河，他們追求的輝煌與勝利，曾讓他們在小藍點上某個角落成為轉眼即逝的統治者；想想棲身於這藍點上某個角落的居民，對另一個幾乎沒有距離分別的居民，犯下無窮盡的殘暴罪行，他們彼此的誤解何其深，他們多麼急於互相殘殺，他們的仇恨何其強烈。
我們自以為是，想像出來的自我重要性，以為自己在宇宙裡有什麼特權的錯覺，在這顆發著微弱藍光的小點前更顯渺小。我們的星球，是一顆孤孤單單的微塵，被依附在宇宙浩瀚的黑暗中。在我們有限的認知裡，在這一片浩瀚之中，沒有任何跡象顯示會有從外星而來的幫助。
地球，是我們唯一的家園。沒有任何一個地方，可供我們移民。或許我們可以到其它星球，但要長久居住，是不可能的。不管你喜歡還是不喜歡，目前為止只有地球是我們的立足之地。
有人說天文學是一門可以令人謙卑、塑造人性的科學。我想沒有什麼能比這張照片，更能展示人類的自負有多愚蠢。於我而言，這也是在提醒我們，我們的責任：更加和善的對待彼此、維護和珍惜這顆淡藍色的小點，這個我們目前所知唯一共同的家園。____天文學家卡爾·薩根(Carl Sagan)
#PaleBlueDot #暗淡藍點 #蒼藍小點 #淡藍小點
#2018選舉 #地球
----------------原文如下-----------------
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any 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.
