European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                All Earth a history happened on a Dot Charles Osgood Tribune Media service h ave you seen the postcard that voyager sent Back earlier this year there has never been anything quite like it. And As far As we know we will not see its likes again. It was a goodbye picture taken Over a four hour period on feb 13, As the nuclear powered space probe was soaring out of our solar system past the Boundary where the solar wind. Touches the Gas and dust of interstellar space. At just that Point the cameras were pointed in the direction voyager had started out 13 years before. The images were stored on magnetic tape and were radioed to Earth Over an 11-Day period. Moving at the Speed of Light 186,000 Miles per second. The signals took s /3 hours to get Here  because Quot Here Quot was 4 billion Miles away. The postcard was Worth waiting for though. Astronomers Are calling it Quot the picture of the Century a it is a mosaic of 60 images. It shows the Sun a Large White Circle and five of the planets nothing More than Small Points of Light Venus Saturn Neptune and Jupiter arc visible. And there caught in the Light of what seems to be a great Sunbeam is a tiny Blue Dot 4 billion Miles away. That a the planet Earth. That a us. A on that Blue Dot a says astronomer Carl Sagan a is everyone you know and everyone you Ever heard of. It is where every human being who Ever lived lived out their lives. Its a very Small stage in a great cosmic  think of it. The Blue Dot is insignificant in the extreme even in the context of one average stars immediate neighbourhood and yet on that Small stage All of history has been played out. All the Kings who Ever reigned All the armies that Ever marched. That Blue Dot is where All the love and laughter was where All the tears were shed where All the dreams were dreamed. Every Noble thought and deed and every evil one was bom on that Blue Dot. Shakespeare wrote his plays there and Leonardo made his paintings. It is the Home of every poem every song. It is the Blue Dot of Bach and Mozart and of Bush and Gorbachev and of you and me. Furthermore it is the Only spot in the Cosmos we know anything about. Where there is a Trace of what we Call life in any form. On that same Blue Dot Are All the plants and animals everything that crawls or walks that flies or so Inis or Ever did so did so right there. The planet is a Garden nurturing every Flower that has Ever grown and every Blade of grass. The Blue Dot is everything we care about on the head of a pin. Quot astronomy has always been said to be a humbling experience a Sagan sat s. �?�1 think this picture underscores that  no kidding in the year 2000 . Contraceptives used labor strikes occurred geometry developed irrigation system used water dam built Decimal system devised prohibition decreed a Cunt tha to Matisin of it Ury methods used to peddle the pop 7-up a first sold As hangover remedy Pepsi Coia a Early ads used Norman Rockwell Art cock cola a Art by Rockwell and . Wyeth used in Earty ads hires a ads used religious Art or Pepper a first distributed by we us Fargo wagons Souro Bod Poe other businesses of $ Japan As corporations show Shell Kkt Oil a makes hangover Medicine Waco Al underwear a designs sports cars Japan railways a manufactures canned juice Japan air lines a operates Golf courses Nippon mining a manufactures perfume Tkac Fortun a it Jiva a a vhf.  Moke. Mow Elf if. Vukits Tim Mem i Tizak vie. Ekit Kea it