Pale Blue Dot

It seems so big.. Our world out there? Sooo big. One minute you look up and one you look around, nothing seems to end. So many different places to discover, so many new people to meet, so many new things to try. It seems endless, doesn't it?

It isn't.

Our world isn't endless. It's just a pale blue dot in the actual endless expanse of the universe.

As Wikipedia states: "The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager1 spacprobe from a record distance of about6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a fraction of a pixel (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. The Voyager 1spacecraft, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of Carl Sagan."

What do we think? Just because the Homo sapiens took over the planet, we can take over the universe?

It's scary how clueless we are.

The real world out there, the one we've barely ventured into, is endless. Or maybe, it ain't endless either. Maybe, there is a parallel universe somewhere we don't know about. Some universe where birds and beasts breathe and exist, trees and plants grow alike, creatures move around, hate, love and feel like we do. Like Sagan reflects, "Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

We have no idea. No idea whatsoever. It applies everywhere. We don't know and can't tell what's going on with things that aren't a part of our lives.

When the Voyager 1 looked back to pixelize our earth, I bet it was laughing at us. Laughing at how ridiculously blissfully ignorant we are. So wrapped up in our stupid insignificant lives when the universe is busy screwing with them. So busy are we with our boards and AIIMS and IITs and IIMs that we never stop even once to wonder what lies ahead in store for us.

We are just the tiniest atomies of the little dust particle that our earth is, while the whole medium lies undiscovered. 99% dark matter. We don't know what the forces out there might be planning for us. Or whatever we do, whatever we feel, is it just the work of a master mind substance that everything exists of?

When the entire earth can be trapped inside a pixel, it's scary to think how finite existence is...

Refer : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot