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35 Years of The Pale Blue Dot and Carl Sagan's immortal words: “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… on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”


On its 35th anniversary, a reflection on what the pale blue dot means to us.

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