Thanks for your rendition of Carl Sagan's "timeless Valentine" yesterday, Sneh. It always gives me hope (but not in Burkeman's sense of resignation), as a bit of "starstuff contemplating the stars," that it is still possible to "boldly go"…
On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft — which carried The Golden Record, Carl Sagan's love letter to Annie Druyan — turned its revolutionary camera around and took the iconic "Pale Blue Dot"photograph that later inspired the famous Sagan monologue of the same title. The image, composed of 640,000 individual pixels, depicts Earth, a mere 12% of a single pixel, at the center of a scattered ray of light resulting from taking an image this close to the Sun. It endures, even in an age when the future of space exploration hangs in precarious balance, as a timeless Valentine to the cosmos...
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/02/14/happy-birthday-pale-blue-dot/
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