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tedunangst on April 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: “She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

For anyone else feeling quizzical, Pale Blue Dot is the name of a photograph of earth taken by voyager in which the earth is nothing but a pale blue dot.

matwood on April 9, 2012 [–]

And to save everyone else the time, here is the picture on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pale_Blue_Dot.png

It looks like lens dust 1/2 down the right side of the picture.

eshrews on April 9, 2012 | [–]

I'd never seen this picture before, so thank you. I'd imagined it differently before viewing. Seems more like a pale blue speck.

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