NASA 的载人探月器Artemis II成功地完成了绕月飞行。照片展示了我们人类家园是那么的美丽动人。看着这些照片，使我不由自主地想起Voyager 1(旅行者1号)拍摄的著名的“暗淡蓝点”。
1990年2月14日，旅行者1号飞到距地球37亿英里的位置。此刻，它已经超过了冥王星距太阳的平均距离。这时旅行者1号回望地球，拍下了那张包含“暗淡蓝点”的照片(根据天文学家、行星科学家、科幻作家Carl Sagan(卡尔.萨根)的构想)。随后告别太阳系飞向银河系。在这张照片里，“暗淡蓝点”地球仅占0.12像素。
人类的家园在宇宙的长河中是那么的微小，而家园的主人-我们人类在宇宙中几乎可以忽略不计。当谈论多少多少年文明、祖上多么多么荣耀时，不知看着这个“暗淡蓝点”有何感想。
还是卡尔.萨根在其1994年所著的《暗淡蓝点》书中说的精辟：
Look again at that dot. 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 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 civilization, 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 lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
再看看那个光点。就是这里。那就是家园。那就是我们。在这个光点上，每一个你所爱的人、每一个你认识的人、每一个你听说过的人，以及每一个曾经存在过的人类，都度过了他们的一生。我们所有的欢乐与痛苦，成千上万种自信满满的宗教、意识形态和经济学说，每一个猎人和采集者，每一个英雄和懦夫，每一个文明的创造者和毁灭者，每一个国王和农夫，每一对相爱的年轻伴侣，每一位母亲和父亲，每一个充满希望的孩子、发明家和探险家，每一个道德导师，每一个腐败的政客，每一个“超级巨星”，每一个“最高领袖”，以及我们人类历史上每一个圣人和罪人，都曾生活在那里——悬浮在一束阳光中的一粒尘埃之上。
在浩瀚的宇宙竞技场中，地球只是一个极其微小的舞台。试想一下，那些将军和帝王为了能在荣耀与凯旋中，成为这个光点上极小一部分区域的短暂主宰，曾流淌了多少鲜血。试想一下，这个“像素点”一隅的居民，曾对另一隅那些同样微不足道的居民施加了多少无尽的暴行；他们之间的误解是何等频繁，他们彼此残杀的欲望是何等强烈，他们相互间的仇恨又是何等炽烈。
面对这个苍白的光点，我们那自以为是的姿态、那臆想出来的自我重要感，以及那种以为自己在宇宙中拥有某种特权地位的幻觉，都显得不堪一击。在浩瀚无垠的宇宙黑暗中，我们的星球不过是一个孤独的微尘。在这片广袤的虚空中，在这渺小的存在里，没有任何迹象表明会有外来的援手，能将我们从自身的毁灭中拯救出来。
迄今为止，地球是我们所知的唯一孕育着生命的世界。至少在可预见的未来，我们人类没有任何其他地方可以迁徙。去造访，或许可以；但要去定居，目前还不行。无论我们是否情愿，至少在当下，地球就是我们唯一的立足之地。
有人曾说，天文学是一门令人心怀谦卑、并能陶冶情操的学科。或许，没有什么比这幅遥远的、展现我们微小世界的图像，更能有力地揭示人类狂妄自大的愚蠢了。对我而言，这幅图像突显了我们的责任：我们要更加友善地对待彼此，并去守护和珍爱这个“暗淡蓝点”——这唯一一个我们所知的家园。(Google translation)
人类美丽的家园 - 悬浮在一束光中的一粒尘埃
ma_hu (2026-04-13 17:26:47) 评论 (0)NASA 的载人探月器Artemis II成功地完成了绕月飞行。照片展示了我们人类家园是那么的美丽动人。看着这些照片，使我不由自主地想起Voyager 1(旅行者1号)拍摄的著名的“暗淡蓝点”。
1990年2月14日，旅行者1号飞到距地球37亿英里的位置。此刻，它已经超过了冥王星距太阳的平均距离。这时旅行者1号回望地球，拍下了那张包含“暗淡蓝点”的照片(根据天文学家、行星科学家、科幻作家Carl Sagan(卡尔.萨根)的构想)。随后告别太阳系飞向银河系。在这张照片里，“暗淡蓝点”地球仅占0.12像素。
人类的家园在宇宙的长河中是那么的微小，而家园的主人-我们人类在宇宙中几乎可以忽略不计。当谈论多少多少年文明、祖上多么多么荣耀时，不知看着这个“暗淡蓝点”有何感想。
还是卡尔.萨根在其1994年所著的《暗淡蓝点》书中说的精辟：
Look again at that dot. 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 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 civilization, 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 lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
再看看那个光点。就是这里。那就是家园。那就是我们。在这个光点上，每一个你所爱的人、每一个你认识的人、每一个你听说过的人，以及每一个曾经存在过的人类，都度过了他们的一生。我们所有的欢乐与痛苦，成千上万种自信满满的宗教、意识形态和经济学说，每一个猎人和采集者，每一个英雄和懦夫，每一个文明的创造者和毁灭者，每一个国王和农夫，每一对相爱的年轻伴侣，每一位母亲和父亲，每一个充满希望的孩子、发明家和探险家，每一个道德导师，每一个腐败的政客，每一个“超级巨星”，每一个“最高领袖”，以及我们人类历史上每一个圣人和罪人，都曾生活在那里——悬浮在一束阳光中的一粒尘埃之上。
在浩瀚的宇宙竞技场中，地球只是一个极其微小的舞台。试想一下，那些将军和帝王为了能在荣耀与凯旋中，成为这个光点上极小一部分区域的短暂主宰，曾流淌了多少鲜血。试想一下，这个“像素点”一隅的居民，曾对另一隅那些同样微不足道的居民施加了多少无尽的暴行；他们之间的误解是何等频繁，他们彼此残杀的欲望是何等强烈，他们相互间的仇恨又是何等炽烈。
面对这个苍白的光点，我们那自以为是的姿态、那臆想出来的自我重要感，以及那种以为自己在宇宙中拥有某种特权地位的幻觉，都显得不堪一击。在浩瀚无垠的宇宙黑暗中，我们的星球不过是一个孤独的微尘。在这片广袤的虚空中，在这渺小的存在里，没有任何迹象表明会有外来的援手，能将我们从自身的毁灭中拯救出来。
迄今为止，地球是我们所知的唯一孕育着生命的世界。至少在可预见的未来，我们人类没有任何其他地方可以迁徙。去造访，或许可以；但要去定居，目前还不行。无论我们是否情愿，至少在当下，地球就是我们唯一的立足之地。
有人曾说，天文学是一门令人心怀谦卑、并能陶冶情操的学科。或许，没有什么比这幅遥远的、展现我们微小世界的图像，更能有力地揭示人类狂妄自大的愚蠢了。对我而言，这幅图像突显了我们的责任：我们要更加友善地对待彼此，并去守护和珍爱这个“暗淡蓝点”——这唯一一个我们所知的家园。(Google translation)