Remembering 1977 - Take a moment

#1

Just watching this review of the Voyager missions.

For me this represents the best qualities of human endeavour. The technology is nearly half a century old and yet it persists and continues to provide a window on our cosmic neighbourhood.

I was 3 when these spacecraft set off on their journey, I feel like they are my generation and I’m kind of proud that we had that mindset at least for a short moment to look beyond the petty squabbles of our daily existence.

We were there 50 years ago, reaching out to the stars, incredible engineers, funding going to the right places.

I hope we can overcome our current cultural and geopolitical short-termism.

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#2

And where are the actual photos of the voyage, mostly computer animation with a narrative.

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#3

The pale blue dot.

On the 14th February 1990 Voyager 1 took the most remote selfie in history from 6 billion kilometres away.

In the immortal words of Carl Sagan himself:

“Look again at that dot, that’s here that’s home, thats us”.

“Upon it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives”.

“The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilisation, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species have lived there in a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”.

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#4

Its always a concern if these things could be manufactured, I cant know of course but it represents the right direction even if it was used as propaganda.

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#5

I wouldn’t call it propaganda per se just a hope filled story.

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#6

Never a straight answer

#7

What did Henson know?

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