Furthest Picture of Earth Ever Taken.

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if you haven't already read the caption on the picture above, that image was taken in 1990 (on valentines day actually) by the voyager 1 space craft and is the furthest picture of earth ever taken. period. it also has a quote by Carl Edward Sagan who was an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and a hero of mine and many others. it was his idea to have the voyager turn towards earth and take that photo as it says nearly 4 billion miles away since the spacecrafts primary mission had been completed. Our entire planet takes up just .12 pixels. the sun is just off camera so thats why you see those large lens flare type streaks there, one of which dominates our little insignificant planet.

look at this picture and try to really understand what you're looking at. the shit is from a 4 BILLION mile vantage. in other words, if each mile represented 1 year back in time, it would go back to when LIFE STARTED ON EARTH. It would only be around 500,000 years old. 4 billion miles is like going around earths equator over 146,000 times.

Keeping those insane distances in mind it's crazy to think about how little those miles mean on a cosmological scale. I mean, light could travel four times further IN A SINGLE DAY. It took us 13 years. thirteenfuckingyears! and in that amount of time light could go 76 trillion miles. thats just incredible but still pathetic because the closet galaxy to us is 14 quintillion miles away or in other words 150,000 times further.

what im getting at here is that space is huge. That picture up there was taken from unimaginably far away from here and it's nothing but an insignificant micrometer in the grand scheme of things and that is fuggin sweeeeet.