Thursday, August 27, 2020

Pale Blue Dot

Track Dream Theater "Pale Blue Dot" yang saya nikmati siang ini, mengingatkan kita kembali betapa kecilnya kita di tengah semesta ini, dan narasi Carl Sagan di bawah sangat pas menggambarkannya. Saat wabah corona seperti ini, Sang Pencipta seakan ingatkan kita, tentang hal terpenting sebagai mahluk ciptaanNya.  

"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. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"

Keterangan gambar

Dari jarak 6 miliar kilometer, Bumi tampak seperti titik kecil (bintik putih kebiru-biruan di tengah rentang cahaya cokelat sebelah kanan) di antara gelapnya semesta.



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