Carl Sagan, astronomer and philosopher, died in 1996. Quite by chance, we stumbled on a You Tube video of his: Pale Blue Dot This is extraordinary -- only around three minutes. Well worth viewing.
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at
it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone
you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their
lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings..." Read more