"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 there ever was lived
out their lives."
Thirteen thousand million miles from home
I am the Voyager 1, transmission's on
Traveling out at thirty thousand miles per hour
I am the Voyager 1, transmission's on
I've contemplated Jovian rings, volcanic life on Io sings
I've seen Saturnian bands in bloom
And the atmosphere of it's Titan moon
But twenty six years ago today, towards the sun I turned my gaze
And I took a family photograph of you
And I saw a pale blue world and that's you
So let me take you by the hand and lead you out to no-man's land
Where the solar wind succumbs to interstellar space
If you could see what I have seen you'd maybe shed that self esteem
And throw away your coats of many colours
And I saw a pale blue world and that's here, that's home, that's you
Different places, different faces way beyond the sun
Forty thousand years or so my journey's just begun
Storing information to transmit to Mr Sagan
I hope he is still here today, I wish him well
And I saw a pale blue world and that's you
Carl Sagan: "...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."
