The Pale Blue Dot

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  • Everybody Knows

    Leonard Cohen - 1988

  • Forty Six and 2

    TOOL - 1996

  • Crazy Train

    Ozzy Osbourne - 1980

  • Carrie

    Motion Picture - 1976

  • Ticks & Leeches

    TOOL - 2001

  • Rats

    Ghost - 2018

  • Leaders of the Blind

    Green Lung - 2021

  • People of the Lie

    M. Scott Peck - 1983

  • Children of the Grave

    Black Sabbath - 1971

  • House on a Hill

    The Pretty Reckless - 2014

  • Call Me

    Blondie - 1980

  • Griftwood

    Ghost - 2022

  • Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

    ABBA - 1979

  • Money, Money, Money

    ABBA - 1976

  • Darkness at the Heart of My Love

    Ghost - 2022

  • Rainbow in the Dark

    Dio - 1983

  • Loner

    Black Sabbath - 2013

  • Beyond the Realms of Death

    Judas Priest - 1978

    For Ben

  • The Patient

    TOOL - 2001

  • Cold at the Altar

    Chris Kläfford - 2019

  • Momma Sed

    Puscifer - 2007

  • Sweet Dreams

    Marilyn Manson - 1995

  • Hurt

    Johnny Cash - 2002

  • Stupid Boy

    Keith Urban - 2006

  • And So it Went

    The Pretty Reckless - 2021

  • Heaven and Hell

    Black Sabbath - 1980

  • The Sound of Silence

    Disturbed - 2015

  • Broken Bells

    Greta Van Fleet - 2021

  • Heaven Knows

    The Pretty Reckless - 2014

  • This Is Me

    Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Ensemble - 2017

  • Blind as a Bat

    Meat Loaf - 2006

  • In The Air Tonight

    State of Mine - 2022

  • 7empest

    TOOL - 2019

  • Spillways

    Ghost - 2022

  • The Monster is Loose

    Meat Loaf - 2006

  • Back From the Dead

    Halestorm - 2022

  • Call Me Little Sunshine

    Ghost - 2022

  • I Am The Fire

    Halestorm - 2015

  • Eye of the Tiger

    Survivor - 1982

  • Hunter's Moon

    Ghost - 2022

  • Fear Inoculum

    TOOL - 2019

  • Rest in Peace

    Dorothy - 2022

  • The Champion

    Carrie Underwood - 2018

  • Viva La Victoria

    Eclipse - 2019

  • Rising From Ruins

    Judas Priest - 2018

  • We Don't Need Another Hero

    Ghost - 2023

  • Black Sheep

    Dorothy - 2022

  • The Steeple

    Halestorm - 2022

  • Bedlamite

    Puscifer - 2000

  • Respite On The Spitalfields

    Ghost - 2022

  • The Pale Blue Dot

    Carl Sagan - 1990

  • Stardust Chords

    Greta Van Fleet - 2021

  • Pneuma

    TOOL - 2019

  • Return to Innocence

    Enigma - 1993

  • Firework

    Katy Perry - 2010 - (feat. Claire Crosby)

    Firework

    Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting to start again?Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards, one blow from cavin' in?Do you ever feel already buried deep?Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thingDo you know that there's still a chance for you?'Cause there's a spark in youYou just gotta ignite the lightAnd let it shineJust own the nightLike the Fourth of July'Cause baby, you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'As you shoot across the skyBaby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, aweYou don't have to feel like a waste of spaceYou're original, cannot be replacedIf you only knew what the future holdsAfter a hurricane comes a rainbowMaybe a reason why all the doors are closedSo you could open one that leads you to the perfect roadLike a lightning bolt, your heart will glowAnd when it's time, you'll knowYou just gotta ignite the lightAnd let it shineJust own the nightLike the Fourth of July'Cause baby, you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'As you shoot across the skyBaby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, aweBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moonIt's always been inside of you, you, youAnd now it's time to let it through'Cause baby, you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'As you shoot across the skyBaby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, aweBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moonBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moon

  • Horses

    Keith Urban - 2018

  • A Beautiful Life

    Dorothy - 2022

  • Love Brand New

    Bob Moses - 2022

  • The Edge of Glory

    Lady Gaga - 2011

  • Forevermore

    Whitesnake - 2011

  • Lateralus

    TOOL - 2001

  • Shadilay

    P.E.P.E. - 1986

  • Light My Love

    Greta Van Fleet - 2021

  • My Champion

    Alter Bridge - 2016

  • In The End

    Black Veil Brides - 2013

  • Love Wins

    Carrie Underwood - 2018

  • Raise Your Horns

    Halestorm - 2022

  • Forty Six and 2

    TOOL - 1996

  • Crazy Train

    Ozzy Osbourne - 1980

  • Ticks & Leeches

    TOOL - 2001

  • Leaders of the Blind

    Green Lung - 2021

  • Rats

    Ghost - 2018

  • Children of the Grave

    Black Sabbath - 1971

  • House on a Hill

    The Pretty Reckless - 2014

  • Call Me

    Blondie - 1980

  • Griftwood

    Ghost - 2022

  • Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

    ABBA - 1979

  • Money, Money, Money

    ABBA - 1976

  • Darkness at the Heart of My Love

    Ghost - 2022

  • Rainbow in the Dark

    Dio - 1983

  • Loner

    Black Sabbath - 2013

  • Beyond the Realms of Death

    Judas Priest - 1978

  • Hurt

    Johnny Cash - 2002

  • Cold at the Altar

    Chris Kläfford - 2019

  • Momma Sed

    Puscifer - 2007

  • Sweet Dreams

    Marilyn Manson - 1995

  • And So it Went

    The Pretty Reckless - 2021

  • Heaven and Hell

    Black Sabbath - 1980

  • The Sound of Silence

    Disturbed - 2015

  • Broken Bells

    Greta Van Fleet - 2021

  • Heaven Knows

    The Pretty Reckless - 2014

  • This Is Me

    Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Ensemble - 2017

  • Blind as a Bat

    Meat Loaf - 2006

  • In The Air Tonight

    State of Mine - 2022

  • 7empest

    TOOL - 2019

  • Spillways

    Ghost - 2022

  • The Monster is Loose

    Meat Loaf - 2006

  • Back From the Dead

    Halestorm - 2022

  • Call Me Little Sunshine

    Ghost - 2022

  • I Am The Fire

    Halestorm - 2015

  • Eye of the Tiger

    Survivor - 1982

  • Hunter's Moon

    Ghost - 2022

  • Fear Inoculum

    TOOL - 2019

  • Rest in Peace

    Dorothy - 2022

  • The Champion

    Carrie Underwood - 2018

  • Viva La Victoria

    Eclipse - 2019

  • Rising From Ruins

    Judas Priest - 2018

  • We Don't Need Another Hero

    Ghost - 2023

  • Black Sheep

    Dorothy - 2022

  • The Steeple

    Halestorm - 2022

  • Respite On The Spitalfields

    Ghost - 2022

  • The Pale Blue Dot

    Carl Sagan - 1990

  • Stardust Chords

    Greta Van Fleet - 2021

  • Pneuma

    TOOL - 2019

  • Return to Innocence

    Enigma - 1993

  • Firework

    Katy Perry - 2010 - (feat. Claire Crosby)

    Firework

    Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting to start again?Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards, one blow from cavin' in?Do you ever feel already buried deep?Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thingDo you know that there's still a chance for you?'Cause there's a spark in youYou just gotta ignite the lightAnd let it shineJust own the nightLike the Fourth of July'Cause baby, you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'As you shoot across the skyBaby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, aweYou don't have to feel like a waste of spaceYou're original, cannot be replacedIf you only knew what the future holdsAfter a hurricane comes a rainbowMaybe a reason why all the doors are closedSo you could open one that leads you to the perfect roadLike a lightning bolt, your heart will glowAnd when it's time, you'll knowYou just gotta ignite the lightAnd let it shineJust own the nightLike the Fourth of July'Cause baby, you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'As you shoot across the skyBaby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, aweBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moonIt's always been inside of you, you, youAnd now it's time to let it through'Cause baby, you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'As you shoot across the skyBaby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, 'Oh, oh, oh'You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, aweBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moonBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moon

  • Horses

    Keith Urban - 2018

  • A Beautiful Life

    Dorothy - 2022

  • Love Brand New

    Bob Moses - 2022

  • The Edge of Glory

    Lady Gaga - 2011

  • Forevermore

    Whitesnake - 2011

  • Lateralus

    TOOL - 2001

  • Shadilay

    P.E.P.E. - 1986

  • My Champion

    Alter Bridge - 2016

  • In The End

    Black Veil Brides - 2013

  • Love Wins

    Carrie Underwood - 2018

  • Raise Your Horns

    Halestorm - 2022

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.

 

 

 

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