#Pale_Blue_Dot

[staipa]

Un nuovo post è stato pubblicato su https://www.staipa.it/blog/giornata-della-terra/?feed_id=801&_unique_id=6443944316c67 %TITLE% Il 22 aprile è la Giornata della Terra (in inglese: Earth Day), è il giorno in cui si celebrano l'ambiente e la salvaguardia del pianeta Terra. La data è fissata a, un mese e un giorno dopo l'equinozio di primavera. L'intento è chiaro e non serve una enorme spiegazione, come fatto altre volte mi limiterò a riportare quello che ha scritto qualcuno di decisamente più bravo a scrivere di me, dopo aver richiesto di realizzare nel 1990 le foto che ora ricordiamo come Pale Blue Dot (tenue puntino azzurro). La foto è stata scattata dalla sonda Voyager 1, quando si trovava a sei miliardi di chilometri di distanza dalla terra, ben oltre l'orbita di Nettuno. Pale Blue Dot Da questo distante punto di osservazione, la Terra può non sembrare di particolare interesse. Ma per noi, è diverso. Guardate ancora quel puntino. È qui. È casa. È noi. Su di esso, tutti coloro che amate, tutti coloro che conoscete, tutti coloro di cui avete mai sentito parlare, ogni essere umano che sia mai esistito, hanno vissuto la propria vita. L'insieme delle nostre gioie e dolori, migliaia di religioni, ideologie e dottrine economiche, così sicure di sé, ogni cacciatore e raccoglitore, ogni eroe e codardo, ogni creatore e distruttore di civiltà, ogni re e plebeo, ogni giovane coppia innamorata, ogni madre e padre, figlio speranzoso, inventore ed esploratore, ogni predicatore di moralità, ogni politico corrotto, ogni "superstar", ogni "comandante supremo", ogni santo e peccatore nella storia della nostra specie è vissuto lì, su un minuscolo granello di polvere sospeso in un raggio di sole. La Terra è un piccolissimo palco in una vasta arena cosmica.Pensate ai fiumi di sangue versati da tutti quei generali e imperatori affinché, nella gloria e nel trionfo, potessero diventare per un momento padroni di una frazione di un puntino. Pensate alle crudeltà senza fine inflitte dagli abitanti di un angolo di questo pixel agli abitanti scarsamente distinguibili di qualche altro angolo, quanto frequenti le incomprensioni, quanto smaniosi di uccidersi a vicenda, quanto fervente il loro odio. Le nostre ostentazioni, la nostra immaginaria autostima, l'illusione che noi abbiamo una qualche posizione privilegiata nell'Universo, sono messe in discussione da questo punto di luce pallida. Il nostro pianeta è un granellino solitario nel grande, avvolgente buio cosmico. Nella nostra oscurità, in tutta questa vastità, non c'è alcuna indicazione che possa giungere aiuto da qualche altra parte per salvarci da noi stessi.La Terra è l'unico mondo conosciuto che possa ospitare la vita. Non c'è altro posto, per lo meno nel futuro prossimo, dove la nostra specie possa migrare. Visitare, sì. Colonizzare, non ancora. Che ci piaccia o meno, per il momento la Terra è dove ci giochiamo le nostre carte. È stato detto che l'astronomia è un'esperienza di umiltà e che forma il carattere. Non c'è forse migliore dimostrazione della follia delle vanità umane che questa distante immagine del nostro minuscolo mondo. Per me, sottolinea la nostra responsabilità di occuparci più gentilmente l'uno dell'altro, e di preservare e proteggere il pallido punto blu, l'unica casa che abbiamo mai conosciuto.Carl Edward Sagan

[peterchiublack]

我們在這：黯淡的小藍點

臺北天文館

總觀效應​

科學家發現，大多數太空人解完任務​，返回地球後，都會解鎖一個全新的人格​──他們會深刻認識到自己的微不足道​，對自然及宇宙心生敬畏。這個現象​，又被心理學家稱為 #總觀效應​。​

總觀效應最神奇的地方是​它可以將人們的 #自我認同​，從特定的種族、膚色、族裔或國家​，上升到全體人類、乃至整個地球的格局​，形成一個更大的共同體意識。這種大愛精神​。我們有個很好的例子可以說明：​​

當航��家一號漂離地球 64 億公里外時​，曾朝著地球方向拍了一張照片，此時的地球​，看起來就像一粒偶然落在畫面中的細小灰塵​──這就是著名的「#暗淡藍點」(Blue dot)​。

此後，有天文學家根據這張天外奇片​，發表了一段扣人心弦的��說*：​

「我們所有的快樂及掙扎、思想與信仰；​人類史上每一位君王或農夫、聖人或罪人​……一切的一切，全部都存在於這粒​，如同懸浮在一束陽光中的塵埃上。​​…許多永無止境的暴行與悲劇​，不過是發生在這顆小點上某個角落的一群人​與小點上另外一個角落的另一群人之間​，他們的仇恨及誤會竟是如此炙烈​，隨時都渴望能滅掉對方​。

…我們總以為自己在宇宙中有什麼特權​，但事實上，這顆星球不過是一粒孤單的微塵​，被裹在浩瀚的黑暗中。而據人類有限的認知​，沒有任何外來力量，能幫助我們救贖自己​。…所以從遙遠太空拍攝到的這個微小世界​，或許最能讓我們意識到自己應該做的事——​

更友善地對待彼此、對待這顆暗淡藍點​，這個目前已知的唯一一個家園。」​我想如果各個國家的領導人​，都能上太空更新一下總觀效應​，這個世界或許真能變得更和平吧​。反正如果去了以後沒有好好反省的話​，也可以叫他們乾脆別回來了嘛​。

#怪奇冷知識786​ 附註：這邊提到的演說內容都只是節錄而已，原始講文篇幅更長，有興趣可以從留言連結中看到全文（還有暗淡藍點的原照）

怪奇事物所 Incrediville

暗淡藍點的演說全文維基百科就能看到了：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot（也有中文）

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Liquor L. Lin怪奇事物所 Incrediville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx79tLEpMDE

#總觀效應​

[apod]

2020 February 14

The Pale Blue Dot Image Credit: Voyager Project, NASA, JPL-Caltech

Explanation: On Valentine's Day in 1990, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make the first ever Solar System family portrait. The portrait consists of the Sun and six planets in a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. Planet Earth was captured within a single pixel in this single frame. It's the pale blue dot within the sunbeam just right of center in this reprocessed version of the now famous view from Voyager. Astronomer Carl Sagan originated the idea of using Voyager's camera to look back toward home from a distant perspective. Thirty years later, on this Valentine's day, look again at the pale blue dot.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200214.html

[n2qfd]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Look again at 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 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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than 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, the only home we've ever known.

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

[ao3feed-killugon]

Honey X Trap

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by Pale_Blue_Dot

“Gon, I could handle these guys Nenless and blindfolded.” Killua countered flatly. “The only challenge will be infiltration, once in, this job could not be more simple.”

(The universe, ear caught by Killua muttering the word ‘simple’ thought that sounded like a bit of a challenge. The universe, if you didn’t already know, is a bit of an asshole.)

OR

In which Gon learns the meaning of the term 'honey trap' and Killua is perpetually embarrassed.

Words: 2176, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English

Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Killua Zoldyck, Gon Freecs, Alluka Zoldyck

Relationships: Gon Freecs/Killua Zoldyck

Additional Tags: Reunited and It Feels So Good, Friends to Lovers, The Author Regrets Nothing, The Author Regrets Everything, Future Fic, Bad Flirting, Boys In Love, Embarrassed Killua Zoldyck, Aged-Up Gon Freecs/Killua Zoldyck, Ging Freecs A+ Parenting

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[jamieroxx]

THIS!!! Today in History: Feb 14, 1990 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot) (Click the Pic to Watch the Video)

[orlandomason]

Furthest away photo of earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

[inofaith]

WANDERERS - Discarded Scenes from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.

These are a selection of 4 shots that I made for and subsequently discarded from my short film "Wanderers", which can be seen in full here: vimeo.com/108650530

Please note that these shots are all more or less incomplete and not color graded - which makes them look quite different in quality from the finished film.

For detailed descriptions of the shots, please read below:

1. MERCURY SUNRISE This shot is a time lapse sequence of the Sun rising over the plains of a crater floor on Mercury, with the camera sequentially decreasing it's exposure time as the light dramatically increases. A procession of trains are transporting people to safety in the shade. Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, orbiting at an average distance of about 58 million kilometers. While Mercury does have a quite significant magnetic field, exposure to Solar radiation on its surface would be highly lethal for a human, and anyone visiting there would be wise to stay in the shade, if not only to stay out of the scorching daytime temperatures reaching above 400 degrees Celsius at the equator. Staying in the shade would however be quite easy on Mercury as it rotates very slowly, a full day on Mercury being equal to a little more than 58 days on Earth. This means you could actually walk away from the sunrise (which is, again, highly recommended). As with so many other scenes in "Wanderers", inspiration for this comes from author Kim Stanley Robinson. While somewhat different from what I made here, he has written about some fantastic concepts about humans on Mercury, both in his novels "Blue Mars" and - even more elaborate - in "2312". The reason for discarding this shot is simply that I never got it quite finished and wasn't too happy about the smaller landscape details nor many aspects about the appearance of the Sun, which is still very temporary here (based on a sequence of photos by NASA/GSFC's Solar Dynamics Observatory). At the time I got around to be working with this again, I felt that I didn't really need this shot in the film (guess it was some inner laziness that did part of the arguing there). 2. ALTERNATE RINGSURF This is an additional shot to the Ringsurf scene that ended up in the final version of the film. Here we are looking straight "down" at the plane of the rings from a close distance, with two people floating some 20 or so meters above it. Originally this scene was going to be two shots, starting with this one, but I found they didn't go very well together and that the other shot worked fine by itself. On their own, I think each shot looks nice, but since I eventually only needed one, and this didn't have Saturn in it, this is the one I decided to discard. This is also from quite early in the process, before I had shot any live action footage, so the people here are done in CG. When I eventually shot the live action elements I decided to only use one person in the second shot.

3. PALE BLUE DOT This is the shot I originally planned on ending the film with. It is a digital recreation of this famous photo (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot) from Voyager 1, taken in 1990, looking back at the Earth from beyond the orbit of Neptune, at a distance of about 6 billion kilometers. I was very happy with this shot - it was a tedious process of getting all of those diffuse lens artifacts to match the shape and color of the original photo, and also to get them to move in a satisfying way. So, it was quite a mental effort to decide to discard it. However, I knew perfectly well that no one would care the least of whatever amount of work I had put into it, or even notice it, and that a human face would be a much more satisfying way to end the film. Also, this shot doesn't mean very much to anyone not familiar with the original photo. I am happy to be able to show it off here by itself though.

4. ALTERNATE IAPETUS RIDGE This is the same environment from the scene in the film, but seen from a somewhat different perspective. The idea here is a shot taken from a camera mounted on a rocket taking off from Iapetus' surface. I think it turned out pretty OK by itself, but when I put it in the film I found this shaky motion too aggressive and that the scene lost some sense of scale with this rapid ascent, so I went for a more slowly moving shot in the final film.

[sycriptouk]

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[jamieroxxartist]

THIS!!! Today in History: Feb 14, 1990 – The #Voyager1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet #Earth that later become famous as #PaleBlueDot.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot)

[thrivalrevival]

Pale Blue Dot - You Are Here (Carl Sagan)

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of 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 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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than 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, the only home we've ever known.

Pale Blue Dot

[cannyclever-blog]

'That's here. That's home. That's us': It's 30 years since Voyager 1 looked back and squinted at a 'Pale Blue Dot' https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/14/pale_blue_dot/ #Computers #IT Consultancy

[mordor-su-blog]

We're all living on a pale blue dot anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot (at Dubai, United Arab Emirates) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2MtCwcD-J2/?igshid=oownj4u9ffe5

[apod]

2019 October 12

Interplanetary Earth Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA & NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington

Explanation: In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured on the left, Earth is the pale blue dot just below the rings of Saturn, as captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting the outermost gas giant. On that same day people across planet Earth snapped many of their own of their own pictures of Saturn. On the right, the Earth-Moon system is seen against the dark background of space as captured by the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft, then in Mercury orbit. MESSENGER took its image as part of a search for small natural satellites of Mercury, moons that would be expected to be quite dim. In the MESSENGER image, the Earth (left) and Moon (right) are overexposed and shine brightly with reflected sunlight. Destined not to return to their home world, both Cassini and Messenger have since retired from their missions of Solar System exploration.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191012.html

[ao3feed-killugon]

Blood and Bone

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by Pale_Blue_Dot

Life on the run isn't so bad when you get to spend it with your baby sister. It's made even better when his best friend makes plans to join him. Killua is so happy he could almost forget about Illumi...but Illumi does not forget about him.

Words: 3752, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Killua Zoldyck, Alluka Zoldyck, Gon Freecs, Illumi Zoldyck, Kalluto Zoldyck

Relationships: Gon Freecs/Killua Zoldyck

Additional Tags: Aged-Up Gon Freecs/Killua Zoldyck, Zoldyck Family Dynamics, Killua Needs a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Gon is an adorable ray of sunshine, except when he isn't

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