In the winter of 1985 I was driving through the Mojave Desert with a friend, talking about our apparent need for new river gear. As we passed the Twenty Nine Palms Marine Base, a man unexpectedly appeared on the side of the road selling used ammo cans. My friend and I laughed wildly and quickly came to realize that the moment was "All In A Days' Karma". This blog contains the occasional ramblings of a died-in-the-wool westerner who loves seeing, understanding, and being alive upon these landscapes. I cherish the moments of bliss and irony that come to all of us as we explore the planet and its residents (and perhaps visitors) in the short time we are here.

Monday, March 9, 2020

The Pale Blue Dot Revisited

On Valentine's Day, 1990 the Voyager space craft. some 3 billion miles from Earth, snapped a picture of our planet. NASA has updated the photo and the complete story is here.

Yep. As Carl Sagan wrote of this image: "That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”

 The "here" is the tiny blue dot inside the sunbeam that runs up and down the photo.
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