"Look again at 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," Carl Sagan said in his famous "Pale Blue Dot" speech. Sagan was inspired by the photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1 from Neptune. From the spacecraft's position, Earth was just a dot in a beam of light. (1)
这是一张著名的照片。1990年，旅行者1号探测器即将飞出太阳系的时候，在距离地球60亿公里的地方，美国国家航空航天局命令它回头再看一眼，拍摄了60张照片，其中一张上正好包括了地球——图中那个亮点。1996年，天体物理学家、著名科学作家卡尔·萨根就此说过一段非常著名的话：“在这个小点上，每个你爱的人、每个你认识的人、每个你曾经听过的人，以及每个曾经存在的人，都在那里过完一生。这里集合了一切的欢喜与苦难，数千个自信的宗教、意识形态以及经济学说，每个猎人和搜寻者、每个英雄和懦夫、每个文明的创造者与毁灭者、每个国王与农夫、每对相恋中的年轻爱侣、每个充满希望的孩子、每对父母、发明家和探险家，每个教授道德的老师、每个贪污政客、每个超级巨星、每个至高无上的领袖、每个人类历史上的圣人与罪人，都住在这里 —— 一粒悬浮在阳光下的微尘。”（来自网络，译者不详）
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