"Peace Message" is a new section on StarPeace official website which is a new idea from StarPeace project to promote peace through astronomy.
Mission of "Peace Message" is collection and preparation of every messages and notes which are related to astronomy & peace. Scientists, astronauts, cosmonauts and thinkers are writers of these notes from all over the globe who believe "the peace is a fruit of the tree of knowledge".
StarPeace believes that publication of these messages among the world people could help all of us to change our attitude about the conception of peace & war. StarPeace invite all of thinkers, scientists and peace promoters to aid this project in this way.
Now, we are going to open new page "Peace Message" in the international day of peace on 21 September by a meaningful and impressive message of Carl Sagan, as one of the most prominent scientists. He is talking about an image which is taken from the earth from distant place in the solar system. About that pale blue dot …
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994:
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. 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.
Earth, 6 billion kilometers far away appears as a tiny dot. (Photo: Voyager 1, 1990)
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.