Everything in human existence on one pale blue dot.

Every life, every death, every war, every human drop of blood spilled.  The totality of human existence – – occurred on a single pale blue dot.  This photo was taken from Voyager 1, 3.7 billion miles from earth.

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While hiking the trail, I noticed something.  All of the ‘stuff’, every piece of dirt with the nutrients required to sustain life – was merely the barest ethereal filament between the rocks and the sky.  Earths regolith (which is all the stuff on land that isn’t rocks – including clay – so a lot more than what I am talking about) would be 15.5 meters if spread out on all the land we have.  That is it.

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We take Earth for granted.

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This photo reminded me of how ephemeral we really are.  It reminded me of this impression I got on trail.  It makes me want to shake the rulers of the world and shout in to their brains until they realize how fragile our spaceship – our earth – really is.