“Famous” image coincidence - Pale Blue Dot
![notion image](https://imagedelivery.net/IEMzXmjRvW0g933AN5ejrA/www.notion.so-image-s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com-secure.notion-static.com-637e79dd-7a96-4ded-90ea-94ff6b00ae62-pale-blue-dot-1200x675.jpg/public)
This story happened May 23, 2022.
I was watching Nick Milo’s lessons on LYT Kit 6.
He had a banner of this image in his Home dashboard. He said:
”I'm curious if anyone knows what this image is. It's a very famous image.”
I didn’t recognize it. To me, it looked like a digital image of colored gradients. I thought it was stupid that a piece of “art” like this became famous.
Later that night, I was scrolling through the timeline on HelloTalk, and came across this Moment:
It was the same image, but fuller, and with an arrow pointing to a tiny spot on the image that I didn’t notice before.
It turns out it wasn’t a piece of art, but a space probe photograph of Earth from a very long distance away.
I felt stupid for judging it after I understood the significance.
This is what Carl Sagan called a Pale Blue Dot.