I saw a documentary about Voyager 1 and when I heard Carl Sagans speech about this picture, I felt inspired and humble.
Pale Blue Dot (Earth from a distance) is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny faint blue dot against the vastness of space.
Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan: “-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”.
Isn't that a thought? Mind blowing!
To all of you on this blue dot: Thank you for listening to me.
Per-Olov
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VeojamTeam5 years ago
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BTW. I'm impressed by your inspiration and the music you wrote. Indeed all we are so small in the Universe. Personally sometimes I feel lost and lonesome when I think about it.... but it's also so fascinating. Many years ago I thought it's a matter of 10 - 20 years to land on Mars and next planets, that we will know much more about stars, asteroids, etc. But seems it's not so simple and I will not see such breakthrough in my life...
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per-olov5 years ago
Hi Team,
Of course I understand. This is your site and you are, and should be, in control of it. I only re-use the description because it is difficult to say the same thing in so many ways. I will shorten my any descriptions in the future here on Veojam.
I am really sorry for any issues this have caused you and your site.
Yours,
Per-Olov
VeojamTeam5 years ago
I'm sorry for your description content being edited. Let me explain. You upload same video to several video sharing services, same title, same description. Since youtube or vimeo are giant sites this will not hurt them in any way. But content on smaller site like Veojam might be recognized by search engines as duplicate and harm website rank position. For this reason Veojam should be as unique as possible. Of course we are very happy when user includes rich description for his content, but only when it's enough unique.
Unfortunately due to your description Veojam experienced rank decrease almost immediately once video became active. The page with your video was showing as 45% duplicate. Still it shows 25% of duplicated content, even if edited... Will be less due to this comment.
I hope you understand and will stay with Veojam. And maybe next time either you post more unique description or let us edit it slightly.
BTW. I'm impressed by your inspiration and the music you wrote. Indeed all we are so small in the Universe. Personally sometimes I feel lost and lonesome when I think about it.... but it's also so fascinating. Many years ago I thought it's a matter of 10 - 20 years to land on Mars and next planets, that we will know much more about stars, asteroids, etc. But seems it's not so simple and I will not see such breakthrough in my life...
per-olov5 years ago
Of course I understand. This is your site and you are, and should be, in control of it. I only re-use the description because it is difficult to say the same thing in so many ways. I will shorten my any descriptions in the future here on Veojam.
I am really sorry for any issues this have caused you and your site.
Yours,
Per-Olov