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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.12,0:00:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1989, Voyager 1 passed the orbits of Neptune and Pluto.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.64,0:00:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mission of the voyager spacecraft was complete.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.24,0:00:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, the cameras were turned back to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Earth we call home.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.48,0:00:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a 12 year, 4 billion mile journey to the edge of the solar system, this is what Voyager saw of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.18,0:00:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our home, the Earth...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.40,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Voyager space probe is nearly the fastest vehicle ever created by man.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will travel across the depths of space for millions of years to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.51,0:00:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11 miles
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.98,0:00:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...every second.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.09,0:00:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The closest sun to our own is proxima centauri. a little over 4 lightyears away.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.72,0:00:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At 11 miles/second, voyager wouldn´t reach proxima centauri...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.19,0:01:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...until around 73,500 A.D.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.45,0:01:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...but most stars are much farther away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.03,0:01:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about the 3 stars of orion´s belt?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.47,0:01:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The closest one, Alnitak, is about 800 lightyears away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.17,0:01:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...190 times the distance to proxima centauri.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.85,0:01:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning that given 13.5 million years
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.78,0:01:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voyager could go from here...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.05,0:01:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...to here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.12,0:01:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our galaxy is estimated to contain more than 200 billion suns.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.86,0:01:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starting to see the scope of things?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.33,0:01:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NO.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.57,0:01:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turns out, the milky way galaxy is not the only galaxy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.59,0:01:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a small part of a deep space image taken by the Hubble telescope.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.74,0:02:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The full image contains around 3000 galaxies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.30,0:02:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and covers an area equivalent to a grain of rice held at arms lenght.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.29,0:02:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One 27,000,000th of the whole sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.09,0:02:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cosmologists estimate there are roughly 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.17,0:02:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look again at the pale blue dot
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.85,0:02:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take a good, long look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.55,0:02:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is our home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.92,0:02:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did God create the whole Universe just for that speck?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.96,0:02:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or did God create the whole Universe just for ONE of the 10 million species of life located there?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.30,0:02:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take it a step further.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.36,0:02:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or religious subdivision.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.94,0:02:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...Or perhaps the whole universe was created only for humans on that pale dot...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.17,0:03:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...who think a certain way?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.32,0:03:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, pick another dot...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.49,0:03:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps they, too, cherish the notion of a God who created everything just for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.23,0:03:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you defend your own beliefs?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.76,0:03:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I´m an atheist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.23,0:03:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don´t know why the universe happened or the meaning of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.47,0:03:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I believe that to answer that question with any cerainty is an attempt to elevate one´s ego to a
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.30,0:03:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,level of relative importance...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.97,0:03:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...above and beyond the simple reality that is elegantly revealed and shown evident.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.51,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With this photograph