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CHRIS EUBANK - ENGLISH

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I've Got to Tell You the Pale Blue Dot

The Voyager Space Probe was getting near the end of the solar system. Carl Sagan petitioned that it made one last photo which was to turn 180 degrees and take a picture of Earth. And I believe that is a metaphor for what we're all about on this Earth. If we look at ourselves as nothing more than this pale blue dot, am I understanding what Carl was trying to say? Is the picture itself enough to convey it to another human just to say, look at this? Well, it is but then one has to then engage their intellect. So you have to engage your intelligence. It only does if you think, if you philosophize.

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