Look at that picture.
This is no pale blue dot.
Set against the darkness of the Cosmos and framed by the sweeping, lifeless beauty that is Saturn - unobtrusively set below the mesmerizing rings set in motion by the seeming clockwork of the laws of nature sits no ordinary speck, but a shining beacon for all mankind to look towards.
This jewel in the night is our planet
Our World
Our Home.
That shining beacon isn't just our home, it is all of us.
Not all of us Americans.
Not all of us Atheists.
Not all of us Skeptics.
Not all of us believers, cranks, criminals, warlords, politicians, poets, dreamers, dealers, prophets or kings.
Not all of us, Human.
But the entirety of all the life that has ever walked this world. Every curse muttered, meal eaten, war fought, joy had, birth rejoiced, death mourned, victory celebrated and defeat befallen.
Every book, ball, game, thought, god, devil, hope, creature and every adventure had - started, and ended (within the light we can see) there.
No, this is no pale blue dot - this is our shining beacon. This is what, several hundred years hence, our descendants will see and speak of wistfully as their home and the sight our forebears could never have dreamt.
This is Earth. And it's all we have.
