I haven't seen a documentary for a long time, I suddenly wanted to watch it and found this one. The universe is huge, the solar system, the Milky Way, the Local Group, the Supercluster, the Local Supercluster, the universe, and now there are 100 billion extragalaxies that can be observed. The words at the end of the film are particularly memorable, when looking at Earth from Saturn: "There, that's home, that's us. There, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've heard of, Everyone who has ever existed in this world has lived his life. Gathered here are our joys and pains, thousands of religious beliefs, ideologies, and economics say every hunter and forager , every hero and coward, every founder and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple, every mother and father, every hopeful child, every inventor and explorer, every Every noble teacher, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in human history, lives here like a speck of dust suspended in a ray of sunshine. The earth is a very small stage, against the background of the vast universe, think of the blood flowing into rivers in the past, the blood shed for emperors and generals, just to make them instant great men in glory and victory , occupy that small point... that small part. Think of the endless cruelty, the people in one corner of that pixel in the image, and every day inflicting this cruelty on the people in another corner that is no different from them Why do they so often misunderstand, why they desire to kill each other, why their hatred is so frenetic. All shaken by this pale blue dot. Our planet is but a lonely speck of dust shrouded in the great cosmic darkness. We are obscure, immersed in endless vastness, without a single clue to show, Who else can save us but ourselves. Earth is the only world known to have life, and there is no other place for life, at least not in the near future. There is no alien planet for humans to migrate, only to visit, Can't settle. Like it or not, right now, there is only Earth for us to stand on. It is said that the study of astronomy can humble people, shape people's hearts, and hone their personality, and perhaps there is no better way to show it than this distant picture Human conceit and stupidity. To me, it underscores our responsibility to be kinder to people, to cherish and love, this pale blue dot is the only home we know.
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