From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space By Carl Sagan. Consider again at that dot. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions touching the dot that was Earth--the “pale blue dot” in Sagan’s coinage. In the media as well, the pale blue dot drew more attention than the family photo