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Planeta Terra
O Pálido Ponto Azul
"We were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere
We were bounded only by the Earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open road still softly calls
Our little terraqueous globe as the mad house of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds
We, who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds
Are we to venture out into space?
By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest of other planetary systems, we will have changed
The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us
Necessity will have changed us. We are... an andaptable species
It will not be we who reach Alpha Centaury and other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with
more of our strenghts, and fewer of our weakness. More confident, far seeing, capable, and prudent.
For all of our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness
What new wonders undreamed of in our time, will we have wrought in another
generation? and another? How far will our nomadic species have wandered by the end of
the next century? And the next millennium?
Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on, many worlds through the solar system and beyond,
will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and
by the knowledge that whatever other life
may be, the only humans in all the universe come from Earth
They will gaze up, and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository
of raw potential once was. How perilous, our infancy. How humble, our beginnings
How many rivers we had to cross before we found our way."
- Carl Sagan