暗淡蓝点

费德勒

<h3></h3><h3>地球,这颗太阳系唯一存在生物的星体,她在太阳系处于什么位置?占多大的份额?<br></h3><h3><br></h3><h3>而作为目前地球上唯一有智慧的生物:人类。又到底有多伟大?</h3> <h3>从人类第一次登上月球回望这颗星球的时候,就已经注定:</h3><h3>在太阳系中,地球是渺小的;</h3><h3>在银河系中,太阳系也是渺小的;</h3><h3>在宇宙中,银河系也是渺小的。</h3> <h3>这是1977年9月5日,美国宇航局向太空发射了旅行者一号无人探测器。</h3> <h3></h3><h3>1990年2月14日,当旅行者1号探测器飞行了十三年后,越过太阳系的八大行星,正朝着太阳系外飞奔而去时,卡尔·萨根费尽九牛二虎之力说服了NASA,让旅行者1号调转相机,最后回望一眼自己的家园。  </h3><h3><br></h3><h3>当时,旅行者1号在64亿千米之外创纪录地为地球上的万物生灵拍下了一张特殊的全家福。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>「细心再看,你会发现一个小点。再看看那个光点,它就在这里。那是我们的家园,我们的一切......」没错,图中那个毫不起眼的光点正是我们赖以生存的地球。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3><br></h3> <h3></h3><h3>卡尔·萨根为这张直触人心的照片写下了经典篇章《暗淡蓝点》,感动了无数人:</h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b><br></b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b>我们成功地(从外太空)拍到这张照片,细心再看,你会看见一个小点。再看看那个光点,它就在这里。那是我们的家园,我们的一切。你所爱的每一个人,你认识的每一个人,你听说过的每一个人,曾经有过的每一个人,都在它上面度过他们的一生。我们的欢乐与痛苦聚集在一起,数以千计的自以为是的宗教、意识形态和经济学说,所有的猎人与强盗、英雄与懦夫、文明的缔造者与毁灭者、国王与农夫、年轻的情侣、母亲与父亲、满怀希望的孩子、发明家和探险家、德高望重的教师、腐败的政客、超级明星、最高领袖、人类历史上的每一个圣人与罪犯,都住在这里——一粒悬浮在阳光中的微尘。</b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b><br></b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b>在浩瀚的宇宙剧场里,地球只是一个极小的舞台。想想所有那些帝王将相杀戮得血流成河,他们的辉煌与胜利,曾让他们成为光点上一个部分的转眼即逝的主宰;想想栖身于这个点上的某个角落的居民,对别的角落几乎没有区别的居民所犯的无穷无尽的残暴罪行,他们的误解何其多也,他们多么急于互相残杀,他们的仇恨何其强烈。</b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b><br></b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b>我们的心情,我们的妄自尊大,我们在宇宙中拥有某种特权地位的错觉,都受到这个苍白光点的挑战。在庞大的包容一切的暗黑宇宙中,我们的行星是一个孤独的斑点。由于我们的低微地位和广阔无垠的空间,没有任何暗示,从别的什么地方会有救星来拯救我们脱离自己的处境。</b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b><br></b></font></h3><h3><font color="#167efb"><b>有人说过,天文学令人感到自卑并能培养个性。除了这张从远处拍摄我们这个微小世界的照片,大概没有别的更好办法可以揭示人类妄自尊大是何等愚蠢。对我来说,这强调说明我们有责任更友好地相处,并且要保护和珍惜这个淡蓝色的光点——这是我们迄今所知的惟一家园。</b></font></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><br></h3><h3>英文原文:</h3><h3>From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>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.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>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.[2] </h3><h3><br></h3> <h3></h3><h3>2015年11月20日,火星探测器卡西尼号在14亿千米之外,穿过土星的A环(上)和F环(下)之间的夹缝回望地球,拍下了这张惊人的图像。这一次,地球这粒悬浮在阳光中的微尘,在土星环的夹缝中要显得更为清晰可见。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>当年我第一次看到这张照片的时候,我泪流满面。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>如今,我再一次读完科尔.萨根的那段文字,再一次看到这个暗淡蓝点的照片,我依然情难自禁。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>你读完之后,如果你能感悟到什么是渺小,什么是伟大,或许,这就是对「胸怀宇宙天地宽」的最好诠释。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>在浩瀚的宇宙中,地球连尘埃都算不上。人类有算得上什么?无非只是在地球上偶尔出现过的一个物种而已。</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>(全文完)</h3>