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Pale Blue Dot (en.wikipedia.org)

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Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah I watch him to calm down. He is up there with Mr Rodgers with people I truly look up to even though I never met them.